Garmin Voices Vpm Files For Garmin

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How to edit.vpm files (plain old.vpm files, that is – no Text to Speech ) Plug in your Garmin GPS to a PC (or PDA with Garmin Mobile XT), browse its folders and get to the folder ‘Voice’. In there you’ll find many language files. You’re going to copy the.vpm file of your choice, and paste it in a new folder in your PC’s hard drive. Gps voice bundles'Steel Magnolia and Eastcoast Eddie are great additions to our Garmin NUVI 255W! Their voices add a touch of humor to the driving experience and customizing the displayed vehicles to match each voice is an ingenious touch! -Sean D., Pueblo, CO-'Sound Surfer's custom voices and icons for my Garmin GPS rock my Face!' (this was part of the tutorial, get Borat's file if you want the tutorial) Installation instructions: Download the file, extract, upload the EnglishAmerican.vpm file of your choice to your Voice folder in your Garmin device/Storage card (previously make a backup of your original EnglishAmerican.vpm). Garmin has created an online repository for buying and downloading voices of your choice. So, the first thing that you need to do is visit the website and go to the ‘Voices’ page. Just search with ‘Garmin Voices’ on the Google search engine and the page will turn up. Installation: Download the 'Crazy Taxi - Announcer.vpm' file. Attach your GPS to PC via USB, then copy the.vpm to the device under Garmin Voice. While it would have been fun to do the other voices from the game, the announcer is the only one who really had enough material to make it work.

Greetings all,
I'd like to review three prominent custom Garmin voice vendors on the Internet. I got bored with the standard English_American and English_British voices in my Nuvi 310 and decided to experiment with their products. There are several online vendors and one or two cater for the Navman GPS brand or Tom Tom.
Note that the voices provided are done by talented impression artists, not the real celebrities. These are commercial vendors and not free sites.
1. Nav-Voices (http://www.nav-voices.co.uk)
Custom voices purchased:
- KITT Car (from the 80s Knight Rider TV series) voice
- Yoda voice
- Arnold Schwarzenegger voice
- Sponge Bob Square Pants cartoon voice
The VPM files are downloaded in ZIP format and easily transferable to your Nuvi. Samples are recorded in low resolution WAV format. Lacks bass/treble, but sound quality is quite OK. Voices are loud, penetrating and you easily hear voice prompts with your car's ICE blasting at medium levels.
Voice overs are hilarious, with appropriate remarks announced when I reach a via points and destinations. The Sponge Bob will say 'Hey, Squidward! We're going the wrong way!' when I detour from the prescribed route.
Yoda would praise

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'Make it to you destination you have, you must be a Jedi!' while KITT will announce 'We've made it in one piece, Michael. May I suggest that I drive next time?'. The Arnie voice comments 'Hey, not bad. We've made it. Now let's go pump some iron, NOW!'
Price: 4.99GBP each. Accepts major credit cards and PayPal.

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Voices default to English_British, therefore you'll have to temporarily remove your standard English_British in order to use the custom voices. Voices work with any Garmin Nuvi model.
Issues:
- Some prompts will not announce, e.g. 'External power loss' but 'Poor Satellite Reception' is prompted. Maybe the problem lies with the Nuvi 310.
- Voice sampling quality could have been better. A bit much on the midrange frequency bands.
2. Politically Incorrect GPS (http://www.pigtones.com)
Custom voices purchased:
- Arnie GPS voice

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- Habib (Indian NY Taxi driver) GPS voice
The Arnie voice is more accurately rendered than Nav-Voices UK, with really funny comments. For example, when my Nuvi is recalculating, he would go 'Recalculating. Because I have more processors than you! Listen punk, if it wouldn't be for me you'd be lost. Thank goodness for GPS. Otherwise, see that pasture? You'd be there!'
The Habib voice is also a blast, and never fails to make my passengers laugh. Thick North Indian accent but perfectly understandable. On recalculating mode, he would say 'You never listen to me! OK, OK, I'll recalculate!'
Price: USD12.97 each. Accepts major credit cards, no PayPal.
Default language is English_American, so your existing English_American.vpm will have to make way for Pigtones voices.
Issues:
- Large file size due to higher rate of sampling (typically 3.6MB), which means high quality sound sample
- Installation is not straightforward. You need to download the free installer and then download their VUP custom voice. The VUP will not work on your Nuvi unless transferred via their installer. Then only the VUP file will be decoded to the Garmin VPM standard.
- Initial problems with the shopping cart system, resulting in network time-outs. (Already resolved).
- If you have a poor Internet connection, the VUP file may not download completely, resulting in a non-working voice file. I have sent a feedback to Pigtones' customer service and they responded quickly (within 24 hours) and apologized for the download problems. The customer service rep was kind enough to email me the VUP file in zipped format.
3. Celebrity Voices UK (http://www.celebrityvoices.co.uk/garmin_voices.htm)
Custom Voice purchased:
- Doc Brown (Back to the Future) voice (does not work)
I wanted to try out the Doc Brown custom voice, but the website says that the 3xx and 6xx series will not work. I contacted the vendor twice in a week, with no response.
I only wanted to know why other models, e.g. 2xx and 7xx models are supported. Was it a TTS issue? (My Nuvi 310 is non-TTS). I even emailed Garmin to seek their views on the voice file differences (not talking about TTS/non-TTS here as I know the difference). Garmin did not respond either.
VpmFed up with waiting, I proceeded with the purchase. The voice file was packaged as a zipped VPM format, but it is actually

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encrypted. This was not mentioned in Celebrity Voice's website. You have to email them with your GPSr unit ID and somehow they will send instructions to unlock the voice file.

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Issues:
- Products will not work on Nuvi 3xx and 6xx models, Streetpilot and Zumo.
- Non-existent technical support, very unhelpful customer service. Appears that the site is run by the site owner himself, who also happens to be the voice-over artist. Requested for a refund but he maintains that since I had downloaded the product he would not entertain refunds. Lost 4.99 Pounds in this transaction.
Seller was most uncooperative and rude. Will not buy from him again.
- Voice file is locked (something that I was not aware of) and the process may be cumbersome.
- If you own more than one Garmin GPSr, you can only use the custom voice on one unit (unlike Pigtones and Nav-Voices UK).
Hope this review provides some insight for anyone contemplating to purchase celebrity custom voices. They will be a hoot with your passengers, especially kids.
Kindly PM me if you need further clarification.
Jun 2nd, 2012
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