This just hut me. TomTom and Garmin cab change their voices on their GPS. Why can't we do it on gmaps? How would thus be done?
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kydkupa said:
This just hut me. TomTom and Garmin cab change their voices on their GPS. Why can't we do it on gmaps? How would thus be done?
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TomTom and Garmin have a limited number of phrases, google uses road names etc in the maps
This has been discussed back with gmaps came out. They use tts text to speech.
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The only way I can get the coive to change is by altering the system language. I prefer the UK everything except google searches that pull the .uk sites. After changing to UK the date will change to the dd/mm/yyyy format. The date/time wont change unless the system language is set to UK as well as the google maps nav voice...annoying bugs for sure.
On my evo 4g, I was able to change the voice through the tts settings. I had to install a tts service other than the stock one, and that service had voices you could pick from, including British voices. It worked fine through google maps.
The tts service I used was SVOX. In the end I think the Pico or whatever the stock one is had better pronunciation of most streets, but the SVOX ones were still pretty good.
I want a Stewie Griffin voice, with all the adlibs...lol
Poppin hallows from my shooter.
kydkupa said:
I want a Stewie Griffin voice, with all the adlibs...lol
Poppin hallows from my shooter.
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Would be great
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Hi all,
Well, I am getting a bike mount for my Streak this weekend.
I roam about a lot in the city on my bike now! ( and I get lost a lot too! new city .. )
so, I was thinking.
So whats one good Navigation software that has:
Voice navigation (optional)
Turn by turn directions (required in text atleast!)
Offline maps (must!)
<GPS assist is must! for the accuracy..>
City road maps (e.g. Bangalore, India)
Please suggest.
(Offline maps to ensure min battery usage..)
Thanks,
Sony.
Google Maps or NDrive
Google maps navigation supports all of the features you asked but the offline maps download automatically from a round you and it caches them so you can't always be shure that they are always there.
But if you defiantly need offline use NDrive, it is not for bikes but it is good and quite cheap and very fast, I use it all the time with my streak
Just checked..
Just checked!
Brut maps is what I need, but, again.. I think it has difference from the legal terms from Google maps..
Ndrive.. hmm, I think, its not good in India.
is there a trial version of it?
Thanks for that..
any other softwares/maps stuff?
care,
Sony.
P.S. stevepork: there you go.. first thanks
Not sure if CoPilot is in your area, but it works quite well here in north america. I attempted to use it in Mexico, and the results were less than stellar.
A free option is Navit, which can work alongside with Google Maps, so you can get a starting and end point that works. Navit's maps are all on SD. It's a work in progress but does include TTS.
besony said:
Hi all,
Well, I am getting a bike mount for my Streak this weekend.
I roam about a lot in the city on my bike now! ( and I get lost a lot too! new city .. )
so, I was thinking.
So whats one good Navigation software that has:
Voice navigation (optional)
Turn by turn directions (required in text atleast!)
Offline maps (must!)
<GPS assist is must! for the accuracy..>
City road maps (e.g. Bangalore, India)
Please suggest.
(Offline maps to ensure min battery usage..)
Thanks,
Sony.
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if u hd bought steak frm india u shd get Map My India licence free with dell streak...
if wldnt u can buy it..juss do some google
and 1 more thing whr do u got bike mount ?
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SYGIC MOBILE MAPS FOR INDIA is al you are going to need.
Suggest that you have a look at this web site:
http://mobile.jack-frost.co.uk/android_sat_nav_apps.php
It has very good reviews of all the different (on-line and off-line) navigation applications that are available on Android.
(In the UK, I am using NDrive quite happily, although it's not as good as TomTom under WM6. I wish that TomTom would produce an Android version.)
Navigon Select
I was installing Navigon Select
and it works Perfect. Actually i use 3.5.4 with 3D Maps. I got fully Europe and USA maps also available.
I like it very much
Hi
I am traveling to some parts of Asia where apps like Tomtom do not have maps and I am thinking if it is possible to have Google maps copied to the SD card and use the HTC GPS and Compass for navigation.Not just as a map but like a point to point tuen like Tomtom.
Rgds
Google maps are online only.
Garmin Mobile XT could be an idea. They have quite a large range of maps, including Asia, as far as I know.
Have you looked at iGo by NavnGo. This is their Asia coverage:
https://www.naviextras.com/shop/portal/catalog?view=list&type=100&page=1&area=10
Rob
Thanks for your replies. Thanked via the button.
Would an application similar to map droid be able to do this?I did see one last yea but cannot remember the app right now
RAMBO29 said:
Thanks for your replies. Thanked via the button.
Would an application similar to map droid be able to do this?I did see one last yea but cannot remember the app right now
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Don´t remember the app name either... also, there seem to be conversion tools to "translate" open street maps into commercial navigation readable formats.
Anything similar to translate Google maps to readable format?
It looks like Google has been testing out new voice files to play while using their navigation finally getting away from the overmodulated computer generated voice instructions.
About one month or so ago I was navigating and for a few instruction heard this very clear female voice. This sparked my interest in why it only said two steps of the entire trip and thought they did an update.
Finally I had some free time and went searching and found nothing documented on this change in voice instructions from google. I found ways to utilize the text-to-speach to change the voice, but nothing official from google.
Tonight I was searching my SD card and found under a folder called "Android" more sub folders which were for google navigation which also had two zips inside it as well with TESTDATA for that clear voice I heard about a month ago. One of the zips has english imperial and one in english metric.
Now the question is - how can we make this to play fulltime?
+1this is the only thing I don't like about Google Navigation.
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I forgot to add the zip of the imperial voice files I found on the SD card. See attached.
I found the new voice too!
I'am italian, and the voice are in italian!!
waiting for a google maps update soon!
Indeed, my fellow Trentino!
Would be a great update to their navigation software. It is just super strange that every so often you will hear the new voice for just one or two directions and it goes back to the modulated voice. Too bad I don't know enough to make it work already. I sure hope that an update gets released soon.
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About one month or so ago I was navigating and for a few instruction heard this very clear female voice. This sparked my interest in why it only said two steps of the entire trip and thought they did an update.
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Do you remember which version of GMM was you using a month ago?
I first noticed this while on vacation 2 weeks ago in San Diego, that same day I opened the app again and her soothing voice was gone. I hate the robot voice, so she's always on mute lol
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Same here, it's been like 2 o 3 weeks i've noticed a different female voice for some indications...
in italian
Is there anyway to look through voices and pick one to use?
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Not sure what version it was that it got downloaded with...
I too have heard the fully formed female voice in Google Navigation. It seems to only come up for simple navigation instructions (Turn Left) and not more detailed ones (in one mile, turn left on Main Street).
Also, interesting thing I noticed. If your SD card is out or unmounted, Navigation will use a series of tones to indicate what type of notification you need to take note of for turns and such. Single Dings for upcoming movement, Double Ding for immediate movement, long ding for continue on blah blah. I thought it was interesting.
That all being said, for people who absolutely hate the native Pico TTS voices, you should try the SVOX series of voices on the market. They day and night better, and also seem to have more language locales. They have a few novelty US English ones also, but I don't care for them. I believe they are something 2-3 US$ per voice. Each one is something like 15MB (but can be moved to SD almost entirely).
ryocoon said:
That all being said, for people who absolutely hate the native Pico TTS voices, you should try the SVOX series of voices on the market. They day and night better, and also seem to have more language locales. They have a few novelty US English ones also, but I don't care for them. I believe they are something 2-3 US$ per voice. Each one is something like 15MB (but can be moved to SD almost entirely).
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You should try IVONA - it's the best voice synthesizer in the world You could try it on its website: http://www.ivona.com/ and I think application for Android has same quality of voice as WWW.
I also noticed the new voice about a week or two ago. It said the first direction and after that it was gone. I never knew about other voice synthesizers could be used too. I'll have to try these in the mean time until Google changes their default voice.
I do not use map map quest so I don't know what my phone has navigation on me since 2013 and I have had prepaid phone and always get New ones now I have had this phone for about 6months and is shows m my locations since 2013 on prepaid phones I never use map quest and it has a recorded and photos of my exact locations weird helper figure this out some one
I am planning on using my Prime in the car and would like to know what is the best "offline" alternative to Google Navigation. I have heard about Sygic but do not have personal experience with it.
Any suggestion?
ajamils said:
I am planning on using my Prime in the car and would like to know what is the best "offline" alternative to Google Navigation. I have heard about Sygic but do not have personal experience with it.
Any suggestion?
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You are able to download the Google maps for offline use, have you tried doing that with your tablet? All it should need after download is GPS...
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You are able to download the Google maps for offline use, have you tried doing that with your tablet? All it should need after download is GPS...
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Well, it's not that simple actually. You can't download entire maps. You can pre-cache 10 square mile areas around locations.
Works well if you know where you're going .
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You are able to download the Google maps for offline use, have you tried doing that with your tablet? All it should need after download is GPS...
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Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. How do I do that? All I see is an option to cache map area. How can I cache the whole USA map ?
try Orux maps from the market, its an open source alternative and as far as I am aware you can create maps of any size for offline use. And its free (or donation!).
ajamils said:
I am planning on using my Prime in the car and would like to know what is the best "offline" alternative to Google Navigation. I have heard about Sygic but do not have personal experience with it.
Any suggestion?
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Have you looked into the new additions to Google Maps? I think they're increasing the offline capabilities (according to their talk yesterday or the day before).
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-maps-android-getting-offline-access
Although google maps is excellent and the new features are needed, orux maps includes google maps within along with just about every other map source available.
I havent heard of any apps that do offline route planning and navigation though, thats a different story.
Oruxmaps looks good but I don't think it does what I'm looking for. I need complete "turn by turn" navigation offline (just like car navigation ).
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Well, it's not that simple actually. You can't download entire maps. You can pre-cache 10 square mile areas around locations.
Works well if you know where you're going .
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I was assuming he knew where he was going Haha
Sygic seems to do everything that I want but I would like to get some opinions about it before I spend a good chunk of change on it
Maps Stored on the Phone
to save your data for more important stuff.
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http://www.sygic.com/en/android
sygic
I bought sygic. There's a free time-limited market d/l and my USA upgrade was $20. I've used it on one trip and it was very a functional turn-by-turn experience. Maps are by Tom-Tom.
i wish you could cache more than 10 square miles in google maps... 10 just never seems like enough!
Downloaded the trial version of Sygic and took it for a spin. Without the GPS dongle I lost GPS connection randomly but with the dongle I was able to complete a 10 mile journey with Voice guidance without any issue.
ajamils said:
I am planning on using my Prime in the car and would like to know what is the best "offline" alternative to Google Navigation. I have heard about Sygic but do not have personal experience with it.
Any suggestion?
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Well, SYGIC is great. Me and a collegue both tested NAVIGON and SYGIC and SYGIC is by far the winner!
Google Maps "offline" is not recommendable. You only will download a 10x10 tile. Not more!
Google announced they will be adding full offline support (not just a 10x10 tile), but it's not out yet.
handi1948 said:
Well, SYGIC is great. Me and a collegue both tested NAVIGON and SYGIC and SYGIC is by far the winner!
Google Maps "offline" is not recommendable. You only will download a 10x10 tile. Not more!
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ZANavi for android.
It's a fork from NAVIT. Free, using free Openstreetmaps, you can download entire countries, or even the whole world lol. There is a possibility to donwload only a limited region on navit's website (google it).
Not as sexy as paid versions but it does the job.
And people speaking about google maps please provide correct info. Offline maps in it is only an anounce, with no ETA.
I use GoPilot Live Pro and like it. I think they have a free version you can try, but eventually, you will want to go to the PRO version. If you find a map error, you can submit a correction to them and they will fix it. In addition to that, I also run WAZE...it's an online map service, but has the best info on Police/traffic congestion/accidents because it's totally based on user reporting. I don't know why, but their routing is attrocious. I use CoPilot for my directions, and check in on Waze to check the road conditions ahead. To use Waze, I just tether my phone to the Prime.
Bob
I haven't really used it myself for navigation, but Osmand is superb for viewing maps and tracking. It is easy to download vector maps for each country from within the app and there is a wide variety of online maps. The navigation is provided by Cloud made, YOURS, OpenRouteService, or the offline option.
I've tried Navit, and it works, but the UI is disgusting.
yeah try ZANavi. its free, its offline.
and if you find the time help to translate:
https://translations.launchpad.net/zanavi/navit-orig-import/+pots/navit
https://translations.launchpad.net/zanavi/trunk/+pots/zanavi
Any way to get a male Google now voice
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Any way to get a male Google now voice
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I don't think there is a way, changing the TTS only affects everything else that is spoken except for Google Now, even changing the language in Google Now settings, will only yield the woman with an accent.
However, there are 3rd party apps (like utter!) that could accomplish this & maybe even the S-Voice. I haven't played around S-Voice because I don't like period.
It would be nice to have custom voices on Google Now, but I guess it uses its own TTS Engine separate from the phone.
southsidexz said:
I don't think there is a way, changing the TTS only affects everything else that is spoken except for Google Now, even changing the language in Google Now settings, will only yield the woman with an accent.
However, there are 3rd party apps (like utter!) that could accomplish this & maybe even the S-Voice. I haven't played around S-Voice because I don't like period.
It would be nice to have custom voices on Google Now, but I guess it uses its own TTS Engine separate from the phone.
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i don't believe the us english version of google txt to speech includes a male v.. haven't checked the others, but i doubt it. others do, but imo, googles is the best by far...