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Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

I have installed everything from Blaizzen's latest "Release.zip" and followed his instructions carefully.
It seems to work, I have to test it on a real trip tomorrow. At least I heard a first announcement of espeak... Splendid!
Also, the speech server seems to be using almost no CPU when running idle, which is nice.

One thing was odd:
The POI button toggles POI displaying. But: after changing to "All" in settings, it took about 10 minutes until "all" categories of POI appeared (instead of just the preselected subset).
While this long time, the Maps app was fully responsive. Bug or feature?

Thanks for this megacool hack.

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

Quote:

Originally Posted by CormacB (Post 924868)

Blaizzen: in your index.html you don't need to include evalspeech.js as it is not being used by your navigation logic.

Actually the evalspeech.js file is now the hardcoded array for the speech. I should have used a different name to reduce confusion, but I was lazy at the time :o

As for turning off R2D2 from saying your streetnames ;)

Code:

        _guidanceWarn :function(ev) {

                

                        var distanceParts = nokia.maps.pfw.Units.getReadableDistance(ev.data.distance, nokia.maps.mapPlayer.map.isUsingImperialUnits());

                        

                        var unitsSound = soundFiles[distanceParts.unit.slice(7,distanceParts.unit.length - 2) + ".sound"];                        

                        var valueSound = soundFiles[distanceParts.value + ".sound"];

                        if ((typeof valueSound == 'undefined') || (valueSound == "")) {

                                var valueSound = distanceParts.value;

                        }

                        

                        

                        

            //var msg = valueSound + "|" + unitsSound + "|" + ev.data.maneuver.getSound(navTrans, true);

                        var msg = valueSound + "|" + unitsSound + "|" + ev.data.maneuver.getSound(navTrans, true;

            SayVoice(msg);

        },

Change getSound(navTrans, true); from true to false

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

I'm suprised this thread hasn't exploded, this is unbelievably cool! I can't believe it took a Pharmacist with an "interest" in programming to implement voice guidance in to Ovi Maps in a few weeks....how long has Nokia had, about 18 months?

Congrats and thanks again to Blaizzen and CormacB, you guys rock. I'll try Blaizzen's version when I get back from holidays in a few days time...

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

I wounder if ovi maps will ever become a good alternative to sygic

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

Quote:

Originally Posted by justice4all3000 (Post 925234)

I wounder if ovi maps will ever become a good alternative to sygic

I wonder whether modrana will ever become a good alternative to ovi maps, sygic and navit taken together.

Seriously, sygic and ovi maps are closed-source, and navit cannot show satellite tiles.

Though, I think that HTML/XML/XUL are better than Python.

And for me the main feature is being able to use it off-line with limited battery.

I would be glad to have accelerometer/gyroscope/compass combination precise enough to replace GPS when its signal cannot be received (Underground?).

For now, Modrana is my favourite, and Sygic is the antipode.

Quote:

Originally Posted by justice4all3000 (Post 925244)

I rarely have credit on my phone so offline navigation is a must for me

Agree. For these cellular providers, even infinitely large credit would hardly be enough.

An idea: put a barcode scanner on a lamppost; when it reads appropriate barcode, it activates WiFi router for several minutes for the person who gave the barcode to get anything it wanted.
Potentially, the camera could track barcode movement and rotate WiFi router's antenna correspondingly. It would make WiFi harder to intercept, power-saving, and the whole system could get electricity from a solar panel and use the same camera which is already used for other purpose (like, traffic camera; and then passengers could have Internet on the road).

Who will pay for WiFi (free WiFi is quite rare)? Well, if you already have Internet from XYZ at home, then make barcode from text "XYZ", and cameras which have XYZ's WiFi routers will then connect with your device and log into XYZ's service. You would use the same Internet provider as at home, you wouldn't need to worry about slow-and-expensive cellular data plan, and, as special benefit for XYZ, its routers would not need to work all-the-day: they would be activated only when camera reads the barcode, the electricity would be from solar panel, the solar panels would be connected into a grid, and XYZ could claim itself to be "green". The electric radiation pollution wouldn't be too high (compare pointed beam with omnidirectional waves), the interference would be reduced, etc.

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

I rarely have credit on my phone so offline navigation is a must for me

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

Quote:

Originally Posted by CormacB (Post 924868)

* Multiple language support: if you use a language other than english then download the correct voices zip file for your language, use it instead of english.zip and it should work

Sorry for not browsing through the whole thread, but where can I download the voice files?

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

Quote:

Originally Posted by d-iivil (Post 925293)

Sorry for not browsing through the whole thread, but where can I download the voice files?

Here you/they are:

Quote:

Originally Posted by CormacB (Post 924145)

Voice files are here: http://symbian.clanteam.com/indexmaps.htm

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

Quote:

Originally Posted by CormacB (Post 924868)

New version attached.

Fixes:
* Better handling of time/distance from last maneuver which turns out to be ver important for the nokia logic.
* Correct speed and position tracking

Improvements:
* Blaizzens improvements (aside from his voice nav) integrated
* Multiple language support: if you use a language other than english then download the correct voices zip file for your language, use it instead of english.zip and it should work

Language support is the main reason to use this version over Blaizzen's as Nokia has already written the logic for the different languages. But there is no street name support and it would be difficult to add.

Blaizzen: in your index.html you don't need to include evalspeech.js as it is not being used by your navigation logic.

so by this mean I can use my native language as defalult voice navigation, if I use indonesia_male I take it from my n86 or n95 instead being concern if its not working. so I just place it under cities folder or I should run command like Blaizzen posted before. sorry still dunno noob here.
thanx in advance.

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)

Is there a config.xml along with the sound files? You could also get the indonesian voice files from http://symbian.clanteam.com/indexmaps.htm or http://www.hpsblog.com/2009/07/direc...0-without.html

Step by step instructions for Indonesian:

I am assuming the indonesian voice files are zipped in a file called indonesian.zip from the linked site and all files are saved to MyDocs. Otherwise you might need need to change some paths.

Download index.html.gz from here http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...3&d=1295624977
Copy your voice files to your N900
Open X terminal and become root
Run

Code:

cd /usr/share/nokia-maps/html mv index.html index.html.backup cp /home/user/MyDocs/index.html.gz . gunzip index.html.gz cp /home/user/MyDocs/indonesian.zip . unzip indonesian.zip rm indonesian.zip cd indonesian/ind-bahasa_male for f in *; do mv $f $f.wav; done
You now should have config.xml in /usr/share/nokia-maps/html/indonesian and a bunch of wav files in /usr/share/nokia-maps/html/indonesian/ind-bahasa_male
Startup maps and create a route. It should automatically use the selected "id-ID" locale to pick the right sound folder.

Edit: the attached updated index.html will show an error message if it can't load the voice config. It also is possible to change the language used by renaming the folders or changing the _codeToFolder mapping in index.html

I also don't know if it is possible/how to change the language for maps so that I can test this myself :(