Cm7 tts

Freemantig · 15th July 2011, 12:12 AM

Cm7 tts

When I has cm6 the trailer engine was more real and clear. With cm7 is sounds like a pos robot woman.? What changed?

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drumist · 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Freemantig

When I has cm6 the trailer engine was more real and clear. With cm7 is sounds like a pos robot woman.? What changed?

What is your "default engine" set to in Settings > Voice input & output > Text-to-speech settings?

Edit: Actually, what app are you using TTS in? Apps like Google Translate will offload the TTS to Google's servers which gives a realistic voice.

Freemantig · 15th July 2011, 12:59 AM

Google navigation. My default is pico tts.

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Freemantig · 15th July 2011, 01:01 AM

Also sorry for the typos. I haven't set up the new SwiftKey and i didn't even notice

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tedkunich · 15th July 2011, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Freemantig

Google navigation. My default is pico tts.

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Pico sucks... Get SVOX from the market and pony up a few bucks for one of the voices. Well worth it.

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drumist · 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Freemantig

Google navigation. My default is pico tts.

Ah, OK. What you were probably doing in CM6 was running Google navigation without text to speech, which means your navigation was using pre-recorded generic messages like "turn left" instead of saying street names out loud like "turn left on to main street". The pre-recorded messages were of a person actually saying it so it sounds good. Pico TTS is tolerable but definitely not human sounding.

Just to clarify, Pico TSS had to be manually downloaded in CM6 but is now included in CM7, hence why you have it.

If you have S-OFF you can probably try to uninstall it manually. I'm not sure if it's enough to just remove it from the app folder or if you need to do anything else, but it should be possible. If you don't have S-OFF you can reflash a modified CM7 zip with Pico removed.

Alternatively, like tedkunich said, you can get another text to speech (though there aren't any good ones that are free) with a better sounding voice.