POI/Voice Announcements Now Working!

[gripp]

Update Sunday afternoon:

- CPL5 US v48 with UK male TTS voice (resinstalled) makes NO POI announcements nor ANY traffic directions although POIs are pinging and popping up on the PDA's screen.
- Roundabouts referred to on-screen as circles - no problem except they're "silent circles". Other traffic directions appear on screen as normal.

I've now loaded the UK female WAV files to replace UK male and will try this soon with the US 48 version.

If this fails, I'll assume that the US program versions DO NOT work with any UK voice files, whether TTS or WAV. This is a real shame because US v48 seems to work much better than my UK v22, so maybe I'll have to revert to UK v22 and wait for an updated UK version to be made available on the ALK site.

What a carry on!!!!
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Nokia E65 & TT Nav6

[Bazzer]

Like Snowy mentioned earlier, I also bought CPL5 on the strength of the review on this site. Hook, line & sinker - I was taken in big style. How can the review have been so wrong ? Did the reviewer actually test this out on the road ?

I had no previous experience with in-car GPS before CPL5, and even after 1 day, I was less than impressed. I would have thought an experienced reviewer would have discovered the shortcomings of CPL5 very quickly and warned us all to keep our wallets in our pockets, instead of lulling us into wasting our money.

I don't know if any ALK employees actually read this forum (if not, they should be forced to), but if I was one of their employees, I would feel deeply ashamed that I was making money out of such a poor product.

As soon as it's released, I'll be buying TT4. Never again will I buy anything marketed by ALK.

A still very disappointed BAZ

[Kar98]

[Grandad1]

Thanks Snowy I followed your instruction to get poi voice working. happy to say it worked first time after weeks of trying,
Would be interested in finding out how to use a saved gps track to run a simulation, its a long way to a safety camera to try the unit out:D
Regards Mike.

[PONDEROUS]

OK, as Kar98 says, a reviewer might have acceptable results from his or her initial tests and, certainly, some problems require longer use to become apparent. Unfortunately, that does not excuse prolonging the situation by effectively denying the existence of faults or inadequacies, or insisting that there are suitable adjustments available on the forum, on the basis of assumptions rather than facts. After all, Copilot 5 does have a Planning mode, so the forum team can easily check any route that a user posts on the forum. As several routes have been posted, I wonder if they actually want to know whether the routing errors exist???

For more on this subject, please see the saga on the following two threads:

Sticky: CoPilot 5 ETA - Tweaking Road Speeds

and

COPILOT 5 UK ROUTING

For the PocketGPS team, and for ALK, it is time for action to set the record straight.

[iankb]

With regard to getting Speed Camera POI's working correctly with version 5.0.1.48, you must always set the slider to one notch from the left before exiting the Options dialog. This will create the following entry in your preferences.cfg file.

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