Hi all,

I am not a newbie here and I am quite confident with my actions to update/hack my AVIC F900BT whic runs on FW 3.0 now.

One thing which is driving me is the voice files. I know that TTS voices cannot be imported and there are differences between loquendo voices and nuance ones whic our AVIC's use. (I still don't understand why Pioneer didn't upgrade to loquendo together with 8.3 of IGO)

MY problem is with the non TTS voices. They all have the naming convention, 7 zip folder structure etc. I have pocket pc 8.3 based voice files and would like to use them with my AVic. The structure, ini files including Pioneer tag, ogg files and CSV files are all in there but even though I copy them under the APL2/content/voice folder they are not displayed.

Please, does anyone know how to get those files visible? Many thanks.

Hi all,

 

I am not a newbie here and I am quite confident with my actions to update/hack my AVIC F900BT whic runs on FW 3.0 now.

 

One thing which is driving me is the voice files. I know that TTS voices cannot be imported and there are differences between loquendo voices and nuance ones whic our AVIC's use. (I still don't understand why Pioneer didn't upgrade to loquendo together with 8.3 of IGO)

 

MY problem is with the non TTS voices. They all have the naming convention, 7 zip folder structure etc. I have pocket pc 8.3 based voice files and would like to use them with my AVic. The structure, ini files including Pioneer tag, ogg files and CSV files are all in there but even though I copy them under the APL2/content/voice folder they are not displayed.

 

Please, does anyone know how to get those files visible? Many thanks.

Try hardcoding them in SYS.TXT. The problem with AVIC is that voice selection is done for the entire system (i.e. vocie recognition feedback etc.) outside of iGO.I haven't tried it, but may be if you set it in SYS.TXT (which overrides other settings), iGO might pick it up. Use something like this:

[local]

voice_key="Rus_f3"

voice_path_hint="voice\Voice_Rus-f3.zip"

I modified my 3 existing voices us,spa and fra, so instead of jason I have the uk lady talking and instead of spanish and french I have polish voices shouting at me

Thank you BorisM.

And stan when you said you've modified did you use the method BorisM has suggested?

Thanks.

Actually no, I didn't. I just replaced the voice files with the ones I wanted. Very simple really

If you need any help just let me know

Wanted to bump this up in the forum and see if anyone else has figured out a way of getting some new voices on the AVIC. Or maybe "stan-the-man" can post how he did it so that the rest of us can enjoy his hard work and gasp at his great knowledge and intelligance.

Or maybe "stan-the-man" can post how he did it so that the rest of us can enjoy his hard work and gasp at his great knowledge and intelligance.

One possibility is that he changed the names of the Polish voice files to match the Spanish and French ones on there already, and copied over the originals.

People, I know this thread is quite old but I'm facing these same issues. I can't get my AVIC F90BT running hacked 3.0200100 firmware to change voice to Brazilian Portuguese.

Any help, instructions on that?