Voice Alerts for POIs do not work

stan.bode

GPS: nuvi 215wt

Voice Alerts for POIs do not work

People

A great sit but I appear to be going around in cicrle, and my beloved "Speed Cameras in 30 Seconds", is nought but a beep beep - no voice. I have a garmin nuvi 215W - and at some stage this worked.

The Garmin POI loader - loads a file with a gpi extension but complains th Camera_UK.wav format is work, yet it loads other which are a copy of it with a different name. The other odd thing is that POIs are being shown after the grmon loader says its loaded the file. if I search for sub way - it does not find it?

So a few odd things going on. will someone give me a simple check list.
Please

johmazz2006

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 765, Garmin 3950LMT, Garmin 2455LMT, Navman40, Garmin StreetPilot 3

Re: Voice Alerts for POIs do not work

The voice file must have the same name as the speed warning file, with a .wav file extension.

stan.bode

GPS: nuvi 215wt

Voice Warning for POI

Hi -- am aware of the naming convention. where does the sox file have to be - a little more information please - a 1 - 10 list >

johmazz2006

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 765, Garmin 3950LMT, Garmin 2455LMT, Navman40, Garmin StreetPilot 3

Re: Voice Warning for POI

stan.bode wrote:

Hi -- am aware of the naming convention. where does the sox file have to be - a little more information please - a 1 - 10 list >

I have it in the Garmin directory AND the POI sub-directory under Garmin.
Have never had any problems..

petersutton

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 250

WAV files not converting

I also get Camera_UK.wav etc cannot be converted in the POILoader, I will try to sort it if I can. I presume the format downloaded is not correct for the poiloader.

johmazz2006

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 765, Garmin 3950LMT, Garmin 2455LMT, Navman40, Garmin StreetPilot 3

Re: WAV files not converting

petersutton wrote:

I also get Camera_UK.wav etc cannot be converted in the POILoader, I will try to sort it if I can. I presume the format downloaded is not correct for the poiloader.

Hi Peter, you may have to use the MP3 sound file as different models use either .wav or .mp3 files.
You may need the SOX.exe program to convert as well, which, if needed, put it in the same directory that you have POI Loader.
Get sox.exe here........... http://www.gps-data-team.com/pda-gps-navigation/topic/2500.html

hennivd

GPS: TomTom One XL

Voice Warning for POI not working

Hi I have Garmin XT on wince 6 and it is still just ping ping when I get close to the cameras ,are there a special way to put this on the device ? I have put all the speedcam files in the poi directory under Garmin.

I have use SOX with POI loader.

Thanks for the Help.

alexrong

GPS: Garmin 2445

alert voice

You have to put 3 files in a folder for custom POI:
1. icon (.bmp file)
2. poi database (.cvs or .gpx file)
3. alert voice (.wav or .mp3 file)
Transfer them to GPS with POILoader.
If you don't put voice file in the folder, the GPS will use the default alert voice for the custom POI.

hennivd

GPS: TomTom One XL

Voice Warning for POI not working

Hi,
I have tried both the .mp3 and the .wav and still just ping ping ,must be a problem on the wince software that it is not working .

Thanks for your help.

b.shelton

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 3689

Voice Alerts

Hi,
I tried the same but still no voice.
Some mention of the sox.exe file needed in POI Loader program folder. Will check that now
Cheers

hennivd

GPS: TomTom One XL

Voice Warning for POI not working

You can only use .vaw if you have the SOX file.

Mine still ping ping ,but I will get used to it.

johmazz2006

GPS: Garmin Nuvi 765, Garmin 3950LMT, Garmin 2455LMT, Navman40, Garmin StreetPilot 3

alerts

I suspect that models that music playing capability will use the .MP3 sound files, and the non music playing models use the .wav sound files.

spakkaps

GPS: GARMIN 3490LMT

Re: Voice Warning for POI not working

hennivd wrote:

You can only use .vaw if you have the SOX file.

Mine still ping ping ,but I will get used to it.

Hi, Same problem on mine, you need to copy the SOX.exe file to the POI Upload directory on your PC, then reload the custom POI and the device will play the custom sound instead of Ping Ping, works fine on mine now

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