Notices

Originally Posted by Dark_Angel85

0. assuming your phone locale has been set to english_us in the setup menu, otherwise change appropriately
1. Login to N900 as root
1.1 apt-get install espeakgui espeak libespeak espeak-data wget unzip
1.2 (optionally) espeak 'hello world' to check that it works
2. cd /usr/share/nokia-maps/html
3. mv index.html index.html.nokia; gzip index.html.nokia
4. wget http://www.pittnerovi.com/jiri/hobby...00/maps.tar.gz
5. tar zvxf maps.tar.gz; rm maps.tar.gz
6. cd /home/user/MyDocs; mkdir navigation_sounds; cd navigation_sounds; wget http://static.s2g.gate5.de/maploader...english_us.zip
6.1 unzip english_us.zip (do not rename to .wav)
6.2 cd /usr/share/nokia-maps/html ; ln -s /home/user/MyDocs/navigation_sounds/english_us .
6.3 change SOUNDPATH in speak_02.py if using different language directory
7. nohup ./speak_02.py >/dev/null &
7.1 (optionally) wget -O /dev/null http://localhost:9999/hello ; wget -O /dev/null http://localhost:9999/:g5ann_001 (to check that it works with both sampled and synthetized speach)
8. start OVI maps from the GUI.

when i reach that step, it says

ln: english_us/english_us: Operation not permitted

how do i get around this?

Originally Posted by jhb

Thanks Blaizzen and others for all the ongoing work!

I have installed omvs according to the wiki, and it seems to work (need to take it for a testrun outside though). One thing I noticed are aplay errors:

Code:

aplay: playback:2297: read error
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5tul_002e' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5num_150' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5unt_002' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5tul_003e' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5num_150' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5unt_002' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5tul_003e' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
aplay: playback:2297: read error
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5tul_003e' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5num_150' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5unt_002' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE '/home/user/MyDocs/cities/Voices/english_us/english_us_male/g5tur_003e' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by louiegoat

I got stuck on step 4 and now my ovi maps does not even open it stays on the screen with the loading bar. Apparently step four is not found for some reason. Sorry new to terminal so now no maps whatsoever. I knew I should have left it alone.

Originally Posted by louiegoat

I got stuck on step 4 and now my ovi maps does not even open it stays on the screen with the loading bar. Apparently step four is not found for some reason. Sorry new to terminal so now no maps whatsoever. I knew I should have left it alone.

Originally Posted by Dark_Angel85

check if your index.html file is still in the /usr/share/nokia-maps/html folder. i realized sometimes it removes the index.html file. restoring it should solve your issue.

Originally Posted by droitwichgas

Use the link to the original article shown on the fist post as the script you have shown seems to have shorten versions of the code required for some reason. I am not that familer with `xterm but managed to get it to work.

However it is nowhere near being a Sygic Modile Maps replacement at present in my view but good if you don't have this app.

Originally Posted by mscion

Kind of funny you mentioned prefering Sygic as I recently had the opposite thought! I happen to notice that voice quality had improved for some reason on ovi maps. At least initially, when you hear it say something like, "Turn Left" the voice is very clear and sounds reasonable. Indeed I had thought it was nearly as good as Sygic at giving the turn instruction. But, then if you have the street name enabled the voice can sound a bit garbled and the timing can be bad. Its like it is an entirely different process going on simulataneously, and, infact, on occasion sounds like a different person talking at the same time the turn instruction is given. Is this common? Any suggestions to improve on it. Anyways, I have CloudGPS, Modrana, Ovi Maps and Sygic Mobile Maps on my N900. I find I like them all for different reasons but usually prefer to use the non commercial ones.