I havent seen a way to plug more human voices in to espeak though. You can now get directions from mr t with gps app waze, fool. A set of voices for the waze navigation system with a little bit more personality than your usual default voices. These contain the name of the mbrola voice with a suffix en. Bs plaer plays videos and handles even corrupted files fairly well. Heres a stepbystep to upload the celebrity voice pack. Tpain and morgan freeman have both lent their voices to the cause, as waze. This is a simple online tool to convert text into an audio clip of stephen hawkings voice. Download the free app, and you can access tyler perrys quintessential grandma character by going to settings sound voice language tyler perry as madea. Wazers can choose the terminators voice for navigation by clicking settings sound voice language. You can copy your preferred voice to default so you can use the speak command without the need to specify a voice. For the first time ever, you can record your own voice directions on waze and share it with subscribers, followers and friends. Target audience are developers who would like to use espeak ng asis for speech synthesis in their python application on gnulinux operating systems. Now you can set this waze gps on your car dash camera.
You can spice things up with different kinds of voices for navigation. Partnering with waze is a fun way to bring the terminator to millions of fans all over the world, said megan wahtera, svp of interactive marketing at paramount. Waze now lets ios users record their own custom voice. Sep 28, 2017 heres a great example of a custom waze voice made by drew lynch. Jan 05, 2016 currently available only for android devices, this app currently integrates with the waze gps app, giving the user a choice to overwrite any existing waze voices with one or more of the character. Step 1 launch your waze app and go to settingssound and select the english us randy pack, once application will automatically download the english us randy pack into your device so best is you have a good wifi connection or itll tax your mobile data quite a bit. To get other versions of espeak, or use other mirrors, use the sourceforge download page. New versions of the waze app are not currently optimized for the windows phone platform, since the vast majority of waze users are on ios or android devices.
Overwrite the bin files inside the prompts directory you chose above, with the arnold bin files you downloaded. Once you installed waze on android tablet and download the updates and extra language files, then the next step is to fix the tablet inside the car using a tablet mount holder. Record voice to guide on road to share with friends and family easily. Now, amazon is teaming up with waze to promote its new show, the grand tour by adding. Always find the way choose from a variety of voices to guide you while you drive. Waze now lets you get turnbyturn directions from celebrities. Then select your desired voice, in this case, morgan freeman from the new london has fallen film. To get keiths voice, first download the waze app here. App offers traffic navigation from celebrity voices cnn.
Get the alerts and reports on broken traffic lights on your route. Though this is not the first time the app has done it, as it has already got voices of various celebrities like mr. And to add to it, the program even speaks to you using a feature called espeak. As most of you have figured out, waze recently disabled the ability to use. Learn how to switch between the three options, and increasedecrease volume. Arabic espeak arabic files and voices for espeak text to speech system. Waze adds celebrity voices starting with kevin hart. Now the next challenge is to let your waze connect online while you drive. I contacted waze support and this was their response. There are some additional espeak mbrola voices which speak english text using a mbrola voice for a different language. We are proud members of this fine tradition, a tradition as old as claudius, the misunderstood misfit who cradled all of rome in his arms. Step 2 download the celebrity you want from the links above.
As most of you have figured out, waze recently disabled the ability to use whatever voices that you copy into the sound folder. Yes you can share custom voices, waze did it a few times on facebook, like for barbara the ny mother all that is needed is the url to open on the smartphone to download the voice such as the one for the same voice as in the given example above. There are a few other videos you can check out that i included in the spreadsheet. You can waze with altimet in both english and bahasa malaysia. In the sound settings, tap on navigation guidance or voice language, which will open up a list of available voices. Waze is available to download for both ios and android devices. From this proud tradition spawned a long line of nerds like isaac newton, thomas edison, madame curie, linus torvalds, mark zuckerberg, larry page, sergey brin, steve jobs, bill gates, and many other men and women who have changed the face of history. Some have noticed that when waze attempts to download new languages, the app my become hung or the prompt does not disappear after a while. Then, i summarized my comments about the unique features of each voice and provided the link to download the voice yourself. You can select one of these with the v voice filename parameter to the speak command. Voice files are placed in the espeakdatavoices directory, or within subdirectories in there. New versions of the waze app are not currently optimized for the windows phone platform, since the.
Currently available only for android devices, this app currently integrates with the waze gps app, giving the user a choice to overwrite any existing waze voices with. Voice files are placed in the espeak datavoices directory, or within subdirectories in there. Heres a great example of a custom waze voice made by drew lynch. Waze voice navigation mod voice pack im not mental. Jan 11, 2018 step 1 launch your waze app and go to settingssound and select the english us randy pack, once application will automatically download the english us randy pack into your device so best is you have a good wifi connection or itll tax your mobile data quite a bit. For example, the voice mbde4en will speak english text with a german accent by using the mbrola de4 voice. From jeremy clarkson, to arnold schwarzenegger, to. In the past, the company has added support for the likes of morgan freeman and shaquille o neal. Waze is a communitybased map and a navigation app that is only meant for drivers. Waze update allows you to record your own voice, to the. Fixed a bug that sent multiple reminders to some users to turn on their headlights.
Ive seen ways to play with espeak with sox postfilters if you just want to modify a voice, use swift from cepstral to use more human sounding voices, or plug cepstral voices in to festival for use with ivrs. Whenever you update the waze app, waze will automatically download new language updates the next time you open the app. The downloadable files is right after this and the instructions to install the file. The waze app, which has featured celebrity voices like stephen colbert, keith morrison, mr. Vocalizer is an embedded tts engine that provides expressive and natural sounding voices in over 50 languages. A voice file specifies a language and possibly a language variant or dialect together with various attributes that affect the characteristics. If youve ever wished your gps had a sense of humor, waze has a solution. Ts voice would be joining the likes of arnold schwarzenegger and morgan freeman via. Using voice commands in waze can help keep your eyes on the road by enabling you to start navigation, report traffic conditions, and. Latest version waze download free download waze for pc. How to get waze celebrity and other voices back onto your waze app. May 02, 2017 waze periodically adds celebrity voices.
Using voice commands in waze can help keep your eyes on the road by enabling you to start navigation, report traffic conditions, and more using only your voice. Social gps app waze is adding more voices for those who prefer to have celebrities tell them where theyre driving. You can now get a loud nudge in the right direction by mr. Jul 11, 2017 the waze app, which has featured celebrity voices like stephen colbert, keith morrison, mr. I finally cracked the code i hacked the waze celebrity voices back onto my waze app. A number of voice files are provided in the espeak data voices directory. Then, go to your settings inside the app, hit voice directions and scroll down to keith morrison. Starting today, may 4th, and running for a limited time, waze has added the voice of tpain to guide you through your travels. Some simple wrappers around espeak ng intended to make using this excellent tts for waveform and ipa generation as convenient as possible. Waze has been known to add some pretty popular voices to its gps. Navigation app waze has added a number of celebrity voices in the past few years to give you directions on your journeys. This page gives direct links to espeak downloads on one of the sourceforge mirrors.
It accepts voice input for 15 languages and allows translation of a word or. Drive with android auto use waze on your cars display. Waze app now lets you record your own voice for directions. The waze app and special terminator voice commands are free of charge. Download the latest version of voices for waze for android. How to get morgan freeman voice in waze app for gps. Tpain and morgan freeman have both lent their voices to the cause, as waze continues to make its navigation services more of a. The must have accessible apps for blind android users jeffreys.
The navigation app has incorporated a few wellknown voices over the past few years, but none have had us more excited than the addition of this beloved fixture of the 1980s. That is, they can be insufferable, unfunny turds for the eyerolling. The collaboration between lionsgate and waze is part of the marketing effort behind perrys latest smash hit, boo. It is loaded with helpful features like turnbyturn voiceguided. Enjoy and do share so others get to enjoy these voicepacks as well. Request waze module to allow use of old voice packs. If you are looking for a fast and easy way to upload and download routes.
Waze introduced a feature on android that allows users of the app to record custom voice prompts, including turnbyturn directions, and now that feature is available to ios users, too. Of course, waze is no stranger to bringing varied voices to its app. Nov 25, 20 if youve ever wished your gps had a sense of humor, waze has a solution. Head to settings sound navigation guidance to choose your favorite. These are new or updated language settings the waze app uses. Altimet just became the first malaysian rapper to be a waze voice, in partnership with liberty insurance berhad. Also binaries compiled for linux 32bits and portaudio v18. Jul 10, 2017 of course, waze is no stranger to bringing varied voices to its app. When waze brings in outside voices, they run for a limited period of time. Feb 14, 2017 when waze brings in outside voices, they run for a limited period of time. Google translate is a free multilingual statistical and neural machine translation service.
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