Jan 05, 2010 Garmin's free Voice Studio software lets you record your own voice directions for use on your portable GPS device.

I decided this subject deserved it's own thread. These voices are hard to find, and I bet most, if not all, of you are sickin' tired of hearing the same guidance voice over and over.

Editing vpm's is easy, but kinda tedious. There's two user friendly programs for that purpose: Voice Editor v0.8 and Turboccc's NonTTS Voice Editor. English and Spanish Tutorial for Voice Editor, also with Borat's voice as example: Terminator/Governator: (of my own creation, made out of speechs and movies - I know it's not as nice as the other voices, but it was my 1st approach heheh -) The Devil: And let me point out that these are not TTS files (Text to Speech). Which means, they won't be saying any street names. However, if your GPS does support TTS, you will also be able to upload these.vpms (losing the TTS directions).

If you would like to edit.vpm files with TTS, go to Turbo's website, where you'll find TTSVoiceEditor, an excellent program.

Custom Garmin Voices Custom Garmin Voices Navigation device maker Garmin has created an infrastructure not only to sell for users to use on their navigation systems, but for users to create their own. These four custom Garmin Voices were created using the free. They are provided here free for your enjoyment, but may not be re-used for commercial purposes without consent. • - inspired by the Cockney pickpocket character from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist• - inspired by the stock car racer from the legendary Petty family of Level Cross, North Carolina• - inspired by actor's 's indelible chief of KAOS from the Get Smart TV series.• - inspired by the character that cemented the Hollywood career of a certain Austrian bodybuilder/actor/politician (These files are compressed.zip archives which each contain a.vpm Garmin Voice file. Use an un-Zipping utility to extract the.vpm files.

If you're using a Macintosh, simply double-click the.zip files to un-Zip. Mtn Fastlink Software. ) Installing Voices These voices can be easily installed on many Garmin navigation devices by placing the.vpm files in the 'Garmin/Voice' directory on your navigation device. Disclaimers Use these files at your own risk. In my experience, running the custom voices caused even more crashing/instability than the Garmin devices normally experience - and they crashed a lot when they were new out of the box.