Joanna Lumley Tomtom Voice

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I have a lot of voices on my TT.
Is there a listing posted somewhere that will let me know what voice for example...'data04.chk' , or 'data78.chk' is? It would help with house-keeping the voices folders. Right now I have 2 'Mandy English' Voices that show up on my device. I'd like to delete one of them, but when in TTH, only one of them shows up for me to remove. I'd like to remove the additional one I added, and not the one that came on the TT.
Also, I have some downloaded voices, that come up as Svennis and Sebastian (on TTH), yet I do not have the actual Svennis or Sebastian voices themselves loaded. I'm guessing that TT sees a certain data??.chk number as belonging to those 2 guys, but I don't know which 2 data??.chk numbers to change.
Is there an applet that I can install on my PC that will quickly play TT voice files. So, if i am looking at a folder full of voices, I could quickly play a snipet of each?

PDA and pocket GPS users with TomTom software may need to copy saved files to folder mobile device/my documents 5. Copy any of the voice files from the folder ( all 3 files: CHK, BMP and VIF) and paste into the folder voices or tomtom root folder (i.e. Copy all the files to that folder: data88.chk and data88.bmp and data88.vif). Nov 11, 2006 Absolutely Fabulous television star Joanna Lumley is the most popular celebrity voice used to give directions to motorists in car satellite navigation systems, a survey has revealed.

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Sat Nav - alternative 'voices' - any experience?
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Mel B

Hi
I've seen adverts for alternative voices for the sat nav systems (such as Ozzie Osbourn etc). Has anyone bought any of these and are they any good, ie better than the original ones? Or are they just good for a laugh for a while and really a waste of money?
martin

Yes they are!
Mel B

Martin
Which bit are you answering please?!
paul d

I would think that after a few 'goes' you would get bored of the novelty of a 'celebrity' voice. They come with clear voices which is surely the point of the things, as you should not look at the screen when travelling. Any voice which adds comments and remarks could I think potentially be dangerous.
martin

Mel
Whichever - but the final point mainly
Will Redfearn

The best voice would be Joanna Lumley the worst a contest between Vicky Pollard and Profeesor Stanley Unwin!
martin

Yes to both: gimmick and waste of money.
A lot of skill and research goes into voice selection and the specific instructions.
You have to have a certain tonal value to cut through the 'noise floor' or engine/road noise, so you need a clean crisp delivery and clear enunciation – so that let’s ‘ozzy’ out I guess! Most of us are Fiat based and lack the legendary hush of the Rolls Royce.
Many of these are 'sound alikes' for pretty obvious reasons, and there’s nothing worse than a Ringer that’s not quite dead!
Gordon


If your satnav is a TomTom variant then this site might be of interest.
www.tomtomsatnav.info
There are a number of free voices to try as an alternative to the TomTom supplied ones
I use Liz from Radio Aire
Mel E

When I finally switched from AOL I had to reluctantly give up the voice of Joanna Lumley telling me I had mail.
If you can get her voice, download now, I'd say!
trevorf

Don't bother paying for them, they are available for free. Try www.tomtomsatnav.info
Trevor
fjmike

I can recommend the Liz Whitaker voice from the site that both Gordon and Trevorf recomended. Most of the celeb. ones that I have heard are rather poor and would soon loose their novelty value. Liz's voice is clear and a lot more pleasant than the standard voices. Alternativly free software is anailable to record your own voice to TOMtom
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