Notices

Originally Posted by mscion

Hi, I did not succeed to get voice to work... Any suggestions on what to check would be appreciated. Regardless, thanks for your efforts in improving ovi maps on N900.

Originally Posted by Blaizzen

Do you hear any sound at all? Is the sound maybe delayed? Also remember it works within a specific range, so maybe drive around and see.

Originally Posted by mscion

Unfortunately it failed the drive test. Not a peep. Although I am able to play the individual .wav files. Has anyone else got the english_us version to work?

Originally Posted by woody14619

I got an even odder result. Was using the version earlier that mixed espeak for the street names and used the wavs for the normal guidance. I could hear all the espeak stuff, but it was clearly missing chunks where it was supposed to be saying the other things. The odd part was that it was delayed the right amount of time to say the things it was supposed to... it just didn't say anything. The python server was running... with the proper path and all that. I just don't get why it's not doing what its supposed to. :P

Any thoughts?

Originally Posted by Blaizzen

Make sure the espeak server is set up to use the correct location of the sound files. In the server its the line:
SOUNDPATH = '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/english/english_male/'

Additionally, it will not work with the .wav extension (it looks for the non-extensioned files). This can be changed in the server I assume, but i'm no good at python so I have no idea how

Sorry didn't see your post before

Originally Posted by rooster13

I tested CormacB's index.html today and it is working with finnish language out of the box.

Only problem is that the guidances come, if they come at all after the turns. Is there any way to tweak this so that guidances are played well before a turn occurs?

It may also be because of the lagginess of Ovi maps. Would it be possible to load all the voices into memory so there would not be any lag. Even better would be to load only the voices which are need in the route only.

Originally Posted by mscion

I'm jealous. I still have no voice. I will start from scratch.

Originally Posted by CormacB

Is there a config.xml along with the sound files? You could also get the indonesian voice files from http://symbian.clanteam.com/indexmaps.htm or http://www.hpsblog.com/2009/07/direc...0-without.html

Step by step instructions for Indonesian:

I am assuming the indonesian voice files are zipped in a file called indonesian.zip from the linked site and all files are saved to MyDocs. Otherwise you might need need to change some paths.

• Download index.html.gz from here http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...3&d=1295624977
• Copy your voice files to your N900
• Open X terminal and become root
• Run
  
  Code:

  cd /usr/share/nokia-maps/html
  mv index.html index.html.backup
  cp /home/user/MyDocs/index.html.gz .
  gunzip index.html.gz
  cp /home/user/MyDocs/indonesian.zip .
  unzip indonesian.zip
  rm indonesian.zip
  cd indonesian/ind-bahasa_male
  for f in *; do mv $f $f.wav; done

• You now should have config.xml in /usr/share/nokia-maps/html/indonesian and a bunch of wav files in /usr/share/nokia-maps/html/indonesian/ind-bahasa_male
• Startup maps and create a route. It should automatically use the selected "id-ID" locale to pick the right sound folder.

Edit: the attached updated index.html will show an error message if it can't load the voice config. It also is possible to change the language used by renaming the folders or changing the _codeToFolder mapping in index.html

I also don't know if it is possible/how to change the language for maps so that I can test this myself

Failed to load voice config.xml from english_us for language en_US