[MOD][WIP] different voices in Google Maps Navigation , NO ROOT NEEDED !

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DaveDH

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Hey sorry to hear you just have an male voice .
Just like i said before , i do not know how it comes the sometimes the old/original voices keep ketting trough .

An possible solution for rooted roms is :
navigate to the folder
\mnt\sdcard\Android\data\com.google.Android.apps.m aps\testdata\voice\nl_NL.28d598fc or en_Us or en_UK or whaterver :) trough an app like rootexlorer and delete al the .ogg files you find do this in every folder you see in
\mnt\sdcard\Android\data\com.google.Android.apps.m aps\testdata\voice\ .
For me that did the trick pretty much each time . Due to some kind of mystery , rootexplorer shows the .ogg files in that folder and any other program on my windows or the stock file explorer app does not see those .ogg files .

an possible solution for the stock roms :
this may delete every stored adresses etc. !
Go to : Settings -aplicationsmanager ( something like that ) -all-maps , Stop the app , delete the data and clear the buffer . press the home button , and then start the navigation , but do not enter any adres or something like that , this so the navigation app can create the folder , then press home again and shut down the navigatin , then replace the voice_instructions.zip for the one i made and then it should work .
But like i said before , we encounterd some problems , problems that with one guy it works flawlessly and the other guy it did not work immidiatley . Even though the procedure was the same :S .

I am sorry i can not give you an waterproof how to , but that is the way the cookie crumbles , sometimes you'll get big chunks , some times small ones . :)

Just try the ways i discribed and play a little with that , i know for sure this shaal work .

And thanks for the tip of the intro , i tought it was kinda cool , but tommorow if i can find the time ( having an life :) ) i shall make one without the intro song .

Greets.

P.S.
I hope you all know that this isn.t the original Darth Vader voice , but the voice of TT Darth Vader .
 
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Se23

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Tbh I like the man's voice. I'm not sure if it's standard or you could change it already in gmaps but I like it. That stupid robotic woman's voice was awful so thanks for your work :thumbup:

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treyy

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Need something for my German Navigation :D but nice work dude

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prestonmale

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hi guys, and thank you for the hard work. ive noticed that some of the files are indeed dart vader. yet some of the obb files ie. in onehundred yards are still a normal male voice. on the roundabout take the first exit however ius dart vader. so it seems a bit mixed up and most things spoken appear a normal male voice. am gonna have a go myself at finding the right ogg files to make up a complete folder. maybe bart or something. am likeing this threat, thanks
 

fsum242

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Voices from Windows 6.5 Tom Tom

I have nearly every voice for Tom Tom but in windows 6.5 form... will that help? If so, let me know and I can Dropbox it.

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RabidMonkeyOnCrack

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I have nearly every voice for Tom Tom but in windows 6.5 form... will that help? If so, let me know and I can Dropbox it.

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As long as they are .ogg or .wav files they should be fine. Not sure if other formats will work but it seems like it will.

From what I can tell all that needs to be done is to rename the files to match the stock file names.
For example "Head north" is named .__1 for the stock file so all you have to do is find the file that says "Head north" or "Go north" or whatever verb it uses and rename that to .__1. Do that for every file then zip it up and put it in your folder and you should be good.

If you want to Dropbox it I can test this out and if it works we can provide the community with voice options. This should work on any phone since the file folders are the same and the app is the same. The only difference is the name of the folder where the voice files are stored since that is randomly generated.
 

dadurf

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GLaDOS voice

There is a GLaDOS voice pack that you can get for the Garmin, and it is in .wav format. So all I would have to do is listen to all the files and rename them? Then replace stock with the new zip I made? That seems time consuming, but fairly easy...
 

Cholera

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I really like this project!
I will have a look if I find the old TomTom voices on my old Windows phone to see if they are useable for this.. ;)


PS: German Voices! ;)
 

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I'm very interested on this project... I will try to find a way to make it for spanish as the current "Google Navigation Experience" sucks bad in spanish... The voice is a creepy robotic female voice that makes me want to put my fingers through my eyes and move them in search of the part that handles my hearing (I think I might have over reacted in that one)...

Well, let's see if I can do anything :)
 

oscar615

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Did you ever get that American English voice file you weer along for? If not Weber do you want me to send it?

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I really hate auto correct. That should be, where do you want me to send it?

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dgomez720

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still hitting a road block..

So, is this thread dead? i tried following the steps here (Galaxy Nexus Sprint) and no matter how many times i try adding the file for Darth Vader, i still get the woman's voice..im just trying to figure out what im doing wrong..ive changed the file in the following path:
storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_US.a3ef9dbb

i make sure its there but it still plays the womans voice..any ideas?
 

scrapzz

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Won't work on my Gallaxy S5, can't found the folder.

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Found it but it still won't work.
 
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Simona Simmy

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Guys am looking female gos nav voice from F320S lg g2
She has awesime accent !!
Pls whos got it post it here
Thnx
 

The Sour Mango

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An old thread, can anyone confirm this still works?

I tried doing exactly this in Gmaps v 9.3.0 (#903008124) but am having no success. All I'm getting is a Gmaps stopped working after I have replaced the .zip. I tried clearing cache, but that doesn't seem to make a difference :/
Can anyone confirm if this still works, if so, am I doing something wrong?

EDIT
Confirmed as still working if someone is intrested! Made a typical mistake of zipping my folder not only the contents.
 
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jaydonga

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Not working for me

I downloaded the zip file of US metric system (en_US.f4cac31d) and replaced the voice-instruction.zip file
However I while navigating in Google Maps, I heard the default voice only. The new voice didn’t reflect.
I also cleared cache, it didn’t work.
Can you help me out with this? :crying:
I am from India and my device location, timezone is set to India.
 

jaydonga

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I am facing the same problem. How did you solve it, it would be great help from you if you share the solution.

---------- Post added at 01:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:25 PM ----------

I tried doing exactly this in Gmaps v 9.3.0 (#903008124) but am having no success. All I'm getting is a Gmaps stopped working after I have replaced the .zip. I tried clearing cache, but that doesn't seem to make a difference :/
Can anyone confirm if this still works, if so, am I doing something wrong?

EDIT
Confirmed as still working if someone is intrested! Made a typical mistake of zipping my folder not only the contents.


I am facing the same problem. How did you solve it, it would be great help from you if you share the solution.
 
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frescovitch

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I tried doing exactly this in Gmaps v 9.3.0 (#903008124) but am having no success. All I'm getting is a Gmaps stopped working after I have replaced the .zip. I tried clearing cache, but that doesn't seem to make a difference :/
Can anyone confirm if this still works, if so, am I doing something wrong?

EDIT
Confirmed as still working if someone is intrested! Made a typical mistake of zipping my folder not only the contents.


What do you mean "zipping my folder not only the contents"?
 

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    I just figured out how to port different kinds of voices to Google maps navigation !
    It is not the TTS part . But only for the Google Maps Navigation ! It is possible to port them from other navigation software to Android .

    And most important :NO ROOT NEEDED ! :)
    It is my believe that this is possible on all Android devices wich run Google Maps Navigation . But since i only own an S3 , i only can confirm that it is working at the S3 for the moment .

    *EDIT* I just tested this on my girlfriend's Galaxy Note , SHe has it Stock , and it worked . No hassel , just renamed the original file to : instruction-voices.org.zip , placed the modded one there two , fired up navigation and immediatley i heard the modded voice :D

    Sadly for the moment , i just made one in Dutch wich you can get here

    I've also made one with the voice of Snoop , but since that one isn't finished yet , i shall not post it yet .

    It works like this :
    Open the app navigation , so that the app makes the files on your sd-card .
    When you navigate on your device to :
    \mnt\sdcard\Android\data\com.google.Android.apps.m aps\testdata\voice\
    You will find an map wich contains an voice-instructions.zip file . In that file lies the .ogg files wich contain the voices of the navigation part .
    If you want to place your own voice . Open that voice-instruction.zip file listen to every .ogg file, change every file with an soundeditor program like audacity . When you are finished put al the files.in an .zip with the name voice-instruction .
    Make an back up of the original voice-instruction.zip , and delete it from your folder . Place the modded on there and you are good to go ! :)

    I am not responsible for what happens (to you or others) on the road when you are listening to this or your own creation after following this !:)
    Keep your eyes on the road ! gheghe

    Also an other warning : i've encounterd some residu of the old voice even after replacing the modded voice for the original one ( thats how i got back to stock again ) to get rid of that i deleted the buffer and data in : settings/aplications/all /maps . But doing so it also deleted every route etc.
    Someone gave me the tip to just delete the cache , but i did not come that far yet , so watch out when you follow this , you maby can lose some data ! Again , doing this is at your own risk !
    :)

    I am looking forward to the future of the navigation voices ! May it be grow as big as TomTom !!

    Have fun !

    Dart Vader
    For UK (metric system) : Download = to be placed in : storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_GB.f4cac31d
    For UK (imperial system) : Download = To be placed in : storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_GB.i.a3ef9dbb
    For US (metric system) : Download = to be placed in : storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_US.f4cac31d
    For US (imperial system) : Download = to be placed in : storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_US.a3ef9dbb
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    Any StarWars Fans out there ?

    Hey boys and girls ,

    I am olmost finished with the DarthVader voice for the UK Navigation . But i am desperately searching for some words/sentences . Because i miss some sentences , i missed a lot more due to the different choise of words of TT , but i was able to cut,copy and past some words together and fabricate new sentences i need . But an few remaind , these are the sentences i need :
    in_1_and_a_half_miles.ogg
    in_1_mile.ogg
    in_2_miles.ogg
    in_3_miles.ogg
    in_1000_feet.ogg
    in_a_half_mile.ogg
    in_a_quarter_mile.ogg
    in_three_quarters_of_a_mile.ogg

    For the metric system i also need :
    in_1_and_a_half_kilometers.ogg
    in_1_kilometer.ogg
    in_2_kilometers.ogg
    in_3_kilometers.ogg

    So my question is to the fans , do you know any sentence or words in the film that allows me to make these sentences . I tried with just loose letters but that didn't work out beautiful .

    Thanks

    P.S.
    Here you go :

    The result i came up with until now ! :D Please keep an few things in mind :
    1) This is for the moment , ONLY for the UK and US version .
    2) This is work in progress , so that means unfinished .But useable !
    3) With some dutch voices we encounterd som difficulties with some users that the voice did not work immidiately , how come ??? i honnestley do not know , i am not an specialist , only an hobbyist :)
    4) For this to get to work you may by have to delete cache etc. wich means lose of data wich include stored adresses etc.

    oke...
    This .zip is to be placed in the folder /storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_GB.ia3ef9dbb . After you replaced the originial file with the file i made , you navigate to the folder /storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/cannedtts/en_GB.i.c862f575 and erase al the .ogg files there ,
    After this when you start up the navigation and start navigating , you should hear Darth Vader :)

    Have fun !
    And keep your Jedi Force on the road , if some accidents happens to you or someone else or some Jedi attacks you it is not my fault !
    Ghehehe

    For UK (metric system) : Download = to be placed in : storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_GB.f4cac31d
    For UK (imperial system) : Download = To be placed in : storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_GB.i.a3ef9dbb
    For US (metric system) : Download = to be placed in : storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_US.f4cac31d
    For US (imperial system) : Download = to be placed in : storage/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/testdata/voice/en_US.a3ef9dbb
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    I live in the UK England not USA, dunno if i can help or not????

    Sent by TapaTalk2 via my supa modded Samsung Galaxy S3!!!!
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    Yeah where's Darth :D

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    I am very sorry boys and girls ,
    I apalogize to you , i haven't been much activ on the forums and my project , i shall pick it up again :)

    But still i need an voice_instruction.zip from another country , like america or the UK for example , so i can listen to the voices , wich allows me to make the correct adjustments , otherwise it very well may be that i put the : go left command where you should hear : Go right ! :D We certainly do not want that , do we ? :D

    UK , just found ou : if i change the language of my android device , and restart Google Maps Navigation , i'll get the file aswell , so i started with the UK version and Darth Vader since i was requested the most :)