Welcome:
Welcome to my
guide on customising your TomTom voice files.
Here you will find step by step information on how to create your very own
voice files, just think how much better it would be to have
personalised voices on your TomTom!
I have been interested
in making your own voices for TomTom for a few years now. My first
voice was used with the aid of really REALLY poor scraps of information that
I found scattered all over the web, typically on GPS forums. After
completing my first voice profile I immediately began on a mission to create
the ultimate guide, using all aspects of my technical experience to put
together the quickest and most effective way of creating your own voice.
Since creating this guide,
I began another project making a program in VB which will make the final step
much easier, specifically for those NOT use to command prompts, switches and all
that bolony! win:viftool2 is a program created entirely by me,
which does exactly that!
Simply put this guide
offers by far the internets most easiest and effective way
for your everyday Joe to get his wife, son, daughter or even perhaps their
mother-in-law telling them how to get from A to B using TomTom satellite
navigation software!
If you
have any more ideas, comments etc that you wish to share, please
get in touch!!
My Examples:
Here is a couple of
voice profiles I created using nothing more than the information found on
this guide,
Good luck, and remember
if you've experiencing any problems, send me an email and I will try my best
to help!
Can't find what
you're looking for? I'm sure google can!
Site News/Updates:
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Saturday 23rd
December 2006:
- Fixed the forms, they are all working now, yay!
- Working on a complete site revamp, new style etc.
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Wednesday 6th
December 2006:
- Removed Movember stuff.
- Working on 'Shout about it', not working properly at the
moment, not sure why, (bloody frontpage extensions!)
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Saturday 25th
November 2006:
- Added a link on the links page
to 'Area GPS by
Ross'.
- Added the ability to translate this web site by clicking on
a country map to the right of the page header and navigation
bar.
- Small updates (typos etc.).
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Saturday 18th
November 2006:
- Added information about Movember, please consider making a
donation
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Tuesday 6th
June 2006:
- Updated win:viftool2, bug fixes etc
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Friday 19th May
2006:
- Completely
recoded winviftool1, and release win:viftool2. This new
version now completely overrides the old methods using viftool
and winviftool, I have removed the instruction from this site!
I really hope you like the new version, PLEASE get in touch if
your experiencing any problems using win:viftool2, and as
always feedback is appreciated.
- Tinkered with the
site, nothing major just moved things around!
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Sunday 19th March
2006:
OK I know I did this a
few weeks ago, but have only just got around to doing this, so this
is a summary of what I've done over the last month or so....
- Completely
upgraded, with the help of Clare (thankyou Clare) the
navigational header, I think you'll agree it looks quite nice
indeed!
- Put back the old
bravenet counter; simply seems to be the most reliable!
- Added information
to the 'about me' link, check it
out if your interested.
- Answered and
updated the 'email Q&A' section.
- I think that's
all for now I think....
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Friday 17th
February 2006:
- Made lots of
technical amendments to the site.
- Added a 'contact
me' and redirected all links to this site.
- Added donation
buttons, in the hope people will show their appreciation for the
hours and hours on unpaid work I spend maintaining the site and
answering emails!!
- I have loads of
email questions to update the Q&A Section, will hopefully get
time soon.
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Wednesday 8th
February 2006:
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 Added
copyright notice to home page, as I have found people are making
money from this site. Please email me if you know of
anyone doing so!
- Fixed broken
links.
- Updated Google
with new URL.
- Currently in the
process of moving house and as a result, I don't have internet
access for a few weeks. If you have emailed me, please be
patient, I will respond as soon as possible.
- I have quite a
large collection of new emails to add to the Q&A Section, I will
update these as soon as I get 5 minutes to, I promise!
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Friday 3rd
February 2006:
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Monday 30th
January 2006:
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Completely re-wrote 'Step 4: Compile and Copy' to incorporate
the new win:viftool2, a program I wrote in December 2005. Please
let me know what you think to the changes.
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I have received a few emails relating to the schematics of
TTOne and TT Mobile as people can't seem to get this tutorial to
work. If anyone has any answers, please get in touch.
- Continued making
changes/bug fixes/typo corrections.
- Added some more
links to the links page.
- Will be adding
more emails to the Q&A section and also adding an email me
section telling people to look at the Q&A section before email
me as many people are emailing me with the same problems already
answered.
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Friday 27th
January 2006:
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Site now appears in google, hooray! thanks to Danny for
helping me out on that one.
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Still looking for mirrors as I have a feeling I may have to move
this entire site to a different URL.
- Removed frames on
site.
- Corrected dead
links.
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Thursday 29th
November 2005:
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PLEASE, share the joy of this website, shamelessly plug it
wherever you can. I submitted the URL to google on
November 15th but it still won't work, if you have any answers
about this, please let me know,
thank you!!
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I am currently looking for mirrors to host the key ingredients
to make this site work, in total they are about 5mb, please
email me if you can help out,
thank you!!
- Added the Q & A
Section, hope you all find this useful.
- Corrected some
broken links.
- Corrected the
error in my example file (Thanks Bruce for spotting it out!!)
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Friday 17th
November 2005:
- Continued making
minor changes.
- Changed advice
RE: Cutting samples.
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Wednesday 16th
November 2005:
- Update 'links'
page, please email me if you have any more you wish to publish.
- Fixed some bugs
on certain pages (links broken and image source incorrect)
- Am hoping to
update information, I have some new information.
- Posted links to
the site and various forum sites and search engines hoping for
publicity.
- I am looking for
mirrors to host a few files as I have hit my limit, please
email me if you can help
- Answered email
problem regarding VIFTool, am hoping to add a Q&A page when time
permits.
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Tuesday 15th
November 2005:
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