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Your destiny lies with me. Obi-Wan knew this to be true.' Let the menacing Sith Lord be your co-pilot: Voice Skins joined forces with Locutio and LucasFilms to bring Darth Vadar to the Garmin GPS system. (If you prefer a more encouraging navigator, the Yoda package should be coming soon.) Garmin customers can now the Darth Vadar Premium Voice and Graphics Bundle to their GPS devices for $12.99.
Not only will Darth Vadar incorporate his best lines from the Star Wars movies into his turn-by-turn instructions, selections from John Williams' signature Imperial March are also worked into the system (when you reach a destination, for example), complete with sound effects from lightsabers and TIE fighter flybys. As if that were not enough to make a wannabe Jedi download the Bundle, he can realize his dream to drive a TIE fighter in a galaxy far, far away to go to the grocery store - because that's the on-screen vehicle icon used in the Darth Vadar package (though not shown in the ). By registering you become a member of the CBS Interactive family of sites and you have read and agree to the,. You agree to receive updates, alerts and promotions from CBS and that CBS may share information about you with our marketing partners so that they may contact you by email or otherwise about their products or services. You will also receive a complimentary subscription to the ZDNet's Tech Update Today and ZDNet Announcement newsletters.
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Hi, everyone, Well, I downloaded and executed the TTS editor, plugged my 660 into the USB port. Using the editor, I opened the voice file on my 660, selected and made changes to several words/combinations, selected 'save', then named the file the same as the original. When I try to exit the editor, it freezes. Up to the 'exit' point, everything seems to be working, but in the end, I've made no actual changes to the voice file. I've tried several times, but get the same result. This computer is running Vista Premium. I have another with XP Pro on it, but haven't tried that one yet.
Miki wrote: Hi, everyone, Well, I downloaded and executed the TTS editor, plugged my 660 into the USB port. Using the editor, I opened the voice file on my 660, selected and made changes to several words/combinations, selected 'save', then named the file the same as the original.
When I try to exit the editor, it freezes. Up to the 'exit' point, everything seems to be working, but in the end, I've made no actual changes to the voice file. I've tried several times, but get the same result. This computer is running Vista Premium. I have another with XP Pro on it, but haven't tried that one yet.
Miki If you make the changes directly on the GPS you must be patient because the GPS connection is veeeeerrrrrrrrrrry slow but if you copy a file to the GPS that is also slow. The program may say not responding when you save but just wait and it will complete the save then exit the editor program. I know it will work that way because that is how I did my file change.
Make sure that when you save the file you include the correct vpm extension. When you choose save just browse to the file name that you edited and select it and that way you know it will be named correctly. There was a discussion previously And I was punished for suggesting to make changes in software by the people who are greeting yahoo now in this forum The only argument was that it's unlawful to make changes Well. I customized my 200W for myself deleting unused staff, changing TTC Voice (+txt) adding some new maps (SD) and vehicles, playing with hidden screens(cheats) It's natural that sooner or later you will be boring about your gadget and will try to change something. Of course it's better receive new options with Firmware updates, but it seems that they don't care.
So people start to look through Internet for cracks, cheats RED Light, Speed Cameras or POI. GARMIN, make something more for your users. Gary A wrote: This has been so much fun, everyone's forgotten about animated avatars. Has anyone tried renaming the voice file? Rather than backing up the default 'Jill' and just modifying it, create a new voice file named 'Jane' or 'Mary' or 'Elizabeth' so that it can be another selection in the list of TTS files to select on the Garmin.
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This way, if you get tired of your modified voice when you are away from your computer, you can just go back and select the standard 'Jill' voice. Changing the file name is a good idea because the program will create a new file and leave the old file unaltered, also you will know which file you want to use. You cannot (to my knowledge) put both files on the unit and pick one then the other. This is true of altered TTS and non- TTS files as well. Both the old and new files will show up on the unit as the original named file(no matter what you change the filename to. To change the display name for the Garmin unit, you have to use a hex editor and search for screenname then you can change the displayed language file name (but you are limited to the same # of characters, ie you can make the name shorter by replacing letters with spaces, but not make it longer!)There are several versions of screenname, depending on your units screen size as to which one needs to be changed.
If you change to many of the naming parameters the voice file will not be recognized by the unit.