TomTom 7 on Diamond and cspeech files

[JayRayMee.NL]

Does anyone know what files like "cspeech_NLD.dat" are for?
There are with the 7.20 maps of Western & Central Europe.

Is it perhaps part of the TomTom text-to-speech? Does that work with Navigator when you use one of Loquendo computer voices from e.g. the GO 910?

[deechte]

These files are for the text-to-speech (TTS) part indeed. However, it doesn't seem to work in TT7 for PDA. I would like it to too...

[TheTimetraveler]

I have searched the Internet quite a bit because I thought about the very same question, but certain information about this topic is very rare - few people know it exactly.

But since this has been always a splinter in my mind I searched for it and found out the following:


the cspeech files are for a text-to-speech feature, which reads street names for example. You can watch a demo at YouTube here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBLBycqf574).
However, despite some assumptions it works definitely NOT with TomTom Navigator 7, which is the latest Software for PDA (Smartphone, Windows Mobile, etc.). Probably TomTom 8 will do it when it is available for PDAs.


So you might think about deleting these files to safe the ~250 MB (For Western- & Central Europe map) of space.
However many users report crashs without the files so I suggest you to replace them with 0 kB dummy files instead of just deleting them. This seems to work very good.

I uploaded a pack below which contains dummies for all countries. Just pick the ones for the files you have and override your originals. (However you also could make dummies on your own)

Happy navigating!


I hope you don't mind me to dig out this topic again, because I thought it would be very valuable information which is not easy to find in the internet.


sources:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=31207
http://gsmfreeboard.com/showthread.php?t=155106 (German)

[duongnt]

thanks man, that is useful