Sound bites
 

The n900 has the habit of bonging, beeping, buzzing and so on. There seems to be so many of them for different notification events. I don't know about you but I get totally confused which sound is for which event.

So I decided to make my own sound bites using human readable voices. I used an online text-to-speech synthesizer to create sentences like "You have mail" or "The system is shutting down" and so on. Then I appended them to their original sound bites. This is much better as now I hear "Battery low... bong" and I understand exactly what the notification event is.

When I get time I will post up the replacement soundbites with instructions on how to replace them.

One thing I cant seem to do is figure out how to differentiate between a different network connection type. Currently I can play a message saying "network connected" but I would like to be able to say "GPRS connected" and "WiFi connected" or even "3G connected" depending on the connection type. Anyone know how to do this.

Re: Sound bites
 

Please post them soon if you can. They'll be fun.

Can u add "This message will self destruct in 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 ...." to the conversations ;)

joke :)

Re: Sound bites
 

nice

i've been doing this for my Symbian phones for a while, using voice as tones

i've never shared this with anyone before, but i'm liking this community and what it's doing with the N900 (which i do not yet own due to Exchange provisioning problems), so i'm posting some of the more generalised sound bites that i use daily

bear in mind this was created for symbian, where there are programs which enable you to customise tones, e.g. system tones, individual sms tones, profile tones

Link to DepositFiles.com download

feel free to use them under the creative commons license :p

http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc...5/my/88x31.png