Garmin british voice download

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The faqs, tutorials and Learning tabs here at The Factory will help you with each issue, plus others you haven't experienced yet. I've not tried it but instructions have you connecting your nuvi to your computer, then dragging and dropping your rgn voice file onto the WebUpdater icon which will start the installation of the vpm file to your One advantage to using method 2 or 3 rather than this method is that you will download the voice versions suited to your device.

Given that there are now three common voice types and that each GPS device can only use the correct type, you need to be very careful downloading rgn voice files to make sure you're downloading the version that will work with your device.

If it's not myDashboard, someone will correct me soon. Download and install the voices you want. The third method is to use Garmin Express. With your GPS device connected to your computer, you need to once again, I think go to the options, then select the English language voices and they'll be downloaded and installed. Note that this method installs all English language voices and doesn't let you pick and choose which you want. You mention free voices available on Garmin Express.

These are "doesn't speak street names" voices and are not the ones you want. You need to look to Options to see the voices I'm describing here. Adding these extra voices requires the above gymnastics. Once your device has installed a new voice, future updates to that voice with occur automatically with WebUpdater or Garmin Express. I'm sorry that I'm not giving the exact procedure for method 2 and 3, but I haven't used Method 2 and I currently don't have Garmin Express installed on my PC.

Your device after adding all English language voices will have two British "speaks street names" voices and two Australian "speaks street names" voice, one male and one female for each accent, plus a few more "doesn't speak street names" voices.

You will even have an Indian English voice available. Keep following the faqs and forum discussions! There's a lot to learn here. It would be nice to add a start up sound on the splashing start up screen.. The same way that work on window startup. The new version 2. Thanks for this info. Refresh my memory, where can I see the version numbers for the voice files? On my Dezl it shows Samantha at 1. I had thought that was where it was, just didn't go far enough. GE says 2. Depending upon the Dezl's voice engine, Samantha should be either v2.

As I've found just recently and updated in the FAQ, Garmin Express does not always offer voice updates and I consider this one of the few flaws with the newer versions of GE. If you try either, I'd like to hear your results here. PS: regarding your first question. I gave you info on how to check the newer nuvis for their active voice version. For the older nuvis 3xx, 7x0, etc , voice versions can only be displayed by going to the hidden diagnostics pages of the nuvi. I tried the English update in GE earlier last week and took the Voice updates.

But it didn't update Samantha. I'll have to try it again. Mayhap's I deleted the update when I cleared out all the extra voices. I just downloaded the English updates with GE and Samantha remained at version 1.

It installed all the versions of American English as well as the British, Australian, and Indian voices. I guess it will eventually updated to 2. I would be interested in hearing how Samantha does after the update. I find that her "vocabulary" is significantly less detailed than Jill's was on my older GPS. Your account shows a nuvi and and as far as I know, neither offers the Samantha voice.

Do you have a new device? I ask because two voice engines offer a Samantha and only the TTS3-enabled engine has this new Samantha update. I'm not the person to ask since I don't use her voice regularly, but after the voice update I did try it out on some routes around town.

I then returned to Karen which a prefer over the new Samantha voice. I was fairly disappointed that downloading Jill's voice was not even an option. Samantha is OK, but does not have as large a vocabulary as Jill.

Samantha mispronounces many more street names than Jill did. Ah, my guess is that the 65M uses the lowest quality of the three TTS voice engines.

If so it's latest update for Sam was:. Jack, 2. Just got a Drive 60LM, replacing an old Nuvi, and I'd like to get Karen's voice on it since that's who we're used to she might also get jealous if we start taking Samantha on our road trips! But it's not clear to me how to get that voice since Garmin Express seems to only go to the Garmin Garage, which only has novelty voices. So should I follow the procedure as outlined in some of the previous posts?

Is there a Karen voice file with "Real Directions" support? And I assume that they've fixed some of the earlier quirks such as pronouncing "Dr" as "Doctor", even when it's part of a street name! You may be the first Drive owner to check for voices so I hope you try to install them all and test them out. This FAQ will attempt to keep current with the latest English language voice versions.

On any Garmin device, you must choose a voice that offers "Speaks street names" or "Speaks Real Directions" if you want street names to be voiced. If choosing a non-TTS voice, rather than hearing instructions like "In point two miles, turn right on Elm Street," you will just hear "In point two miles, turn right.

There are also some alternate fun, celebrity or different voices offered by Garmin or others available and these are all non-TTS voices. Please note that each Garmin On-The-Road GPS device will use one of three voice engines and the voice engine available on the device determines which voices and voice updates your device will receive. It's therefore best not to simply copy voice files from one device to another, but instead to use Garmin's software to offer the appropriate voices and voice updates and to install them.

Note that each of the three voice engines offer a voice named Jack, yet the filesizes and version numbers are different. These Jacks are not interchangeable.

The most basic voice engine is offered on devices like the nuvi 40 and A better voice engine is offered on devices like the nuvi , and