[Q] iGo Primo & Loquendo TTS for Android - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
There are way too many versions of iGo all over the internet and I have tried several ones. It looks like iGo folder structure is shared across many platforms and the .apk for Android is the one that manages its interactions with the OS.
I managed to get iGo and LoquendoTTS (v7, I guess) installed on my phone and they both seems to work fine, except for one problem. Whatever language/voice I select inside iGo has no effect to the TextToSpeach engine. In other words, it will ALWAYS get the system default language/voice. Why is that?
Let me be more specific: I want my phone language to be set to English, but I need iGo use the TTS engine in Brazilian Portuguese. If I set phone language to English, then I enter iGo and choose a Portuguese voice, the TTS sound will be spoken in Portuguese words, but with English pronounciation and voice. On the other hand, if I choose Portuguese in Android's settings then Portuguese in iGo, everything is spoken in Portuguese.
It seems to be an iGo problem, not Android's. Every other app I have that uses TTS will allow me to select the language/voice to be used, except for iGo.
I found out a few things:
1) Loquendo installs its language/voice settings to its default folder (usually /sdcard/LoquendoTTS/) and here is an example:
Portuguese.ttsconf
(Loquendo TTS Language - Brazilian Portuguese)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
<languages>
<language name="PortugueseBr" basename="Portuguese" defaultvariant="no">
<library name="LTTS7${basename}" entrypoint="${name}" />
<info description="${basename}" />
<resources path="modules/${basename}">
<resource class="base" type="lexicalinfo" name="${name}" />
<resource class="base" type="lexicon" name="${name}" />
</resources>
<languagealiases>
<alias type="internal" name="${name}" />
<alias type="IETF" name="pt-BR" />
<alias type="WinLangid" name="1046" />
<alias type="generic" name="BR" />
<alias type="generic" name="Brazilian" />
<alias type="generic" name="pt" />
</languagealiases>
<modes>
<mode name="default">
<parameters />
<resources>
<remove class="" type="" name="" />
<add class="base" type="" name="" />
</resources>
</mode>
</modes>
</language>
</languages>
</config>
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Gabriela.ttsconf
(Loquendo TTS VOICE configuration: Gabriela - Brazilian Portuguese)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
<voices>
<voice name="Gabriela" mothertongue="PortugueseBr">
<library name="LTTS7${name}" entrypoint="${name}" />
<info description="Brazilian female voice" age="35" gender="female" demosentence="Meu nome é Gabriela: sou uma voz feminina de Loquendo, e a minha língua nativa é o português do Brasil." basepitch="180" basespeed="128" />
<resources path="modules/${name}">
<resource class="base" type="vocaldb" name="${name}">
<flavour codec="LTTS7CodecMsx" frequency="16000" bitrate="32800" rank="10" name="${parent.name}.${this.frequency}.${this.codec}.${this.bitrate}.${this.rank}.bin" />
</resource>
<resource class="gilded" type="vocaldb" name="${name}GildedPhrases">
<flavour codec="LTTS7CodecMsx" frequency="16000" bitrate="32800" rank="10" name="${parent.name}.${this.frequency}.${this.codec}.${this.bitrate}.${this.rank}.bin" />
</resource>
<resource class="gilded" type="vocaldb" name="${name}GildedParalinguistics">
<flavour codec="LTTS7CodecMsx" frequency="16000" bitrate="32800" rank="10" name="${parent.name}.${this.frequency}.${this.codec}.${this.bitrate}.${this.rank}.bin" />
</resource>
</resources>
<modes>
<mode name="default">
<parameters />
<resources>
<remove class="" type="" name="" />
<add class="base" type="" name="" />
<add class="gilded" type="" name="" />
</resources>
</mode>
</modes>
<languagealiases>
<alias type="internal" name="${mothertongue}" />
<alias type="IETF" name="pt-BR" />
<alias type="WinLangid" name="1046" />
<alias type="generic" name="BR" />
<alias type="generic" name="Brazilian" />
<alias type="generic" name="pt" />
</languagealiases>
</voice>
</voices>
</config>
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2) iGo Voice files is specific for each language and is a .zip file containing some dictionaries, icons and also an info file like this:
info.ini
(iGo Brazilian Portuguese Voice)
[INFO]
;TTS Loquendo Lua Pro
LCID=0x0416
ask_recalulate="Fora da rota. Recalcular?"
asr_language="pt-br"
brand="Standard"
cmlangkey="Voice_Portuguese-br"
;dynamiccompressor=1
entering_tunnel="Você está entrando num túnel!"
flag="flag_bra.bmp"
flag_icon="countryflag_bra"
gps_disconnect="O GPS foi desconectado"
gps_signal_lost="Perda do sinal de Satélite"
languagekey="Portuguese"
languagename="Portuguese"
lang_extention_flag=""
luavoice=1
name="Gabriela (TTS) v2.9"
offroute="Fora da rota"
overspeed="Você está acima do limite de velocidade"
phoneme_lang="POR"
recalulate="Novo cálculo da rota"
;roadnameparsing=0
sex="female"
testsound="Olá, meu nome é Gabriela, tenha uma boa viagem, e dirija com cuidado!"
timestamp="1262873210"
timestamp_readable="2010_01_07__15_06_50"
tmcsup=1
tts_destnames=1
tts_engine="loquendo"
tts_eta="Você chegará ao destino aas \number=time %H e %M"
tts_langname="PortugueseBr"
;tts_langname_loq7="PortugueseBr"
tts_mode_mixed=0
tts_rate=50
tts_srate="11025"
tts_voicename="Gabriela"
;tts_voicename_loq7="Gabriela"
ttsvoice=1
traffic_jam="Há um congestionamento logo adiante!"
unitssup_kmm=1
unitssup_mlf=1
unitssup_mly=1
version=1
voicekey="Gabriela"
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As you can see, iGo voice file has redundant settings to tell the system which language/voice to use.
The thing is: I tried a lot of combinations to these settings, but none got to work. I wonder why.
My only guess was to assume that these settings are specific iGo For WinCE, not for Android. As for I've heard WinCE comes with a loq_tts subfolder with some .dll and .exe files to make the LoquendoTTS engine to work.
Is anyone capable of giving me some directions on this? I am totally lost.
Thanks in advance.