Add a pause before speaking directions?

[sykotek]

Is there any way to get the F500BT to pause about 1 second before speaking voice nav prompts? I have it wired up in my Ponitac G8, but the G8 slowly raises the volume on the input line, so I end up getting the first 1/2 to 1 word of my spoken directions cut off.

 

I found the voice.zip file and considered adding a 1/2 second pause before every word, but it would sound funny...

 

Any files that can be modified to add a short pause at the beginning of each voice prompt?

 

Thanks!!

 

Steve

[paQ]

Yes you could do that, but it takes some tweaking of the command list.

 

Every spoken command is written in the commands list, as (for e.g.)

'% MILES TURN LEFT'

 

Some command lines have double command lines, for e.g:

'% MILES TURN LEFT TURN LEFT'

when the first isn't available (for whatever reason) it'll go for the back-up command, in this case 'TURN LEFT'

 

Now, when you would make an *.ogg file (sound file) of 0,5 seconds of nothing, and name that PAUSE, than you could just add PAUSE before every instruction string.

[sykotek]

Well I got this sorted.

 

It dawned on me that there's that "DING" that sounds every time you get a voice prompt.

 

I located the file, called !Nav_Dong.wav, and edited it to add 1.0 seconds of silence before the Ding.

 

Works perfect.

 

There are a couple phrases that do not trigger the ding, like "You are over the speed limit" and "recalculating", I might modify these to have the 1 second patuse as well, but might not. Last time I tried to modify the .ogg voice files I almost bricked the thing.