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Hi there,

Tried the routing last night on the way home (and this morning).
Didn't work at all last night, kept telling me no route found. I installed monav and the routing worked.

Tried again this morning and routing was working but no voice. I followed the web page to download some tomtom voices and converted them (they are now ogg files I believe) and put them into the appropriate directory /home/user/MyDocs/.local/share/marble/audio/speakers/ameteur Radio

But no voice. Do I need an ogg decoder installed for it to work or have I done something wrong?

Looking forward to getting this working.

Mike

I got the voice guidance working with marble and marble maps latest versions (1.1.1) and monav (0.3). I used the Tomtom estonian voice.
But as this is more a technology preview I guess that it is not ready yet
I have made some tests during last 2 weeks and most of the "commands" were wrong (sounded in wrong places) or at least confusing. Tried to understand if there is some systematic error or shift in them, but until now I have no idea....

First of all to the developers of Marble for Maemo team, a huge thanks. It is an exceptional application. I have installed marble (1.1.1) + marble maps + monav routing daemon(0.3). I downloaded the maps for my country and went into offline mode, did a route guidance worked very well.

Now how can i (in an offline mode), just load marble app and start driving and it will start to navigate with me.

Second, during navigation why doesnt it automatically zoom in to road level. I noticed it kept at a certain zoom level (as much as i gave it before starting from home). How can zoom levels work automatically during navigation?

Third, since automatic zoom wasnt working, i zoomed in manually to abt road level. But map never moved with me. It tracked my movement fine but map was not moved.

so in summary, how can i start marble app and it zooms in at road level and start to navigate with me?

City: Islamabad
Country: Pakistan

After route calculation you have to press the left button of the four buttons located at the down-right section of the Marble screen. Then it asks your confirmation and the guidance mode starts. Also - your GPS should be working for that - the second left button toggles it in and out...

@mmarks: Did you select the voice you installed in the configuration dialog? Once that is done it should work. If that doesn't work, are you running some other application in the background that uses the audio output (e.g. a music player)? Are ogg related packages installed? I do have ogg-support and gstreamer10-ogg installed here.

@niqbal: You can enable automatic centering of the map and automatic zooming in the Tracking dialog (available from the application menu). Use the bottom two controls below "Re-center" (older versions) or "Map Adjustment" as shown in the screenshots in http://userbase.kde.org/Marble/Tracking
The guidance mode enables both when turned on and disables both when turned off.

@all: You may have heard that KDE 4.7 Beta 1 was released today. Here's what's new in Marble on the N900 (compared to 1.1.1):

Features:

• Bookmark Manager (available from the main menu)
• Offline Address Search (available from the Go To.. dialog from the main menu)
• Sharp texture maps
• Tracks can be loaded directly in the Tracking dialog
• Fullscreen mode (available from the map context menu)
• Distance announcements in voice guidance commands

Performance:

• Texture map rendering is slightly faster
• Opening of very large routes is much faster
• Placemark rendering is faster
• Routing, more specifically guidance mode, are much faster for very large routes
• Guidance mode now uses lazy recentering to save some battery power

Known Issues:

• Clearing a track leads to inconsistencies that may result in a crash e.g. when loading a track afterwards. We're working on a fix.
• The overview map slows down rendering a bit currently. Hide it for faster panning/zooming.
• Voice guidance mode is still rather quirky
• After installing an offline routing map with offline address search data, Marble needs to be restarted in order to detect and use the newly installed offline address database
• The user interface does not announce upgradable maps properly. You can install a new version on top of an old one without a problem though. This bug affects all versions of Marble. Will be fixed in Marble 1.2 Beta 2.

I prepared packages for the N900 which are available in the testing repository on my server. I don't expect severe bugs, but there are rough edges (see known issues), so I won't push them to extras-devel. Still I'd like to get some testing to squash remaining bugs before the release. If you have some time and are not afraid of using a shell on the N900, please have a look. Note that you need to install (or upgrade) monav offline routing maps to get databases for offline address search. See the list above for countries whose maps are already updated with offline address search data.

Hello, and thanks for the developers, this app is exactly what I was hoping for on Maemo.

For some reason I can't get the voice files from tomtom converted with the online converter, none of the ones I downloaded from the provided link seem to convert. If anyone has a proper english (don't care which voice, even Schwarzenegger would do ) sound files, could you please upload somewhere?

Solved: Had to use the .zip file instead of the .chk

Hmm, I can't get the voice guidance working properly.

I'm using the openstreetmaps and openrouteservice for the navigation, I've extracted the voice files and am able to select them from the menu dialog. However nothing is spoken, I just get the directions on the screen. The voice files are in English, the directions are in Finnish on the screen. I tried to select device language as US English, but that doesn't seem to make any difference, the routing instructions still appear in Finnish and no voice is played. Any ideas what to check?

edit: fixed now, apparently my ogg support was broken

@Soppa , i was able to add the voice files + added it in marble Configure menu but heres the issue. I start guidance mode, voice says 'are u ready, why don ....' voice gets killed. I cant seem to work it out. Using another speaker didnt start voice at all, just stuck at starting guidance please wait ..

my question is which voice files are u using that are working for you? so i can try the same. I am using Leicester_Sound downloaded it free from two links given in CustomSpeakers tutorial

Niqbal - I have exactly the same issue - would love to know the solution.

I have ogg support installed and downloaded & converted the ameteur radio voice - I don't get any voice prompts at all in marble. I aslo tried the new update (1.1.80 I believe) and that didn't help either!