Hi just want to no if you can help me with my tomtom it dos not let me use uk voices at al it was working ok on thursday but today it dos not want to it tells me to down load then againe many thanks mark

Hi,
Go to Preferences
Change Voice (lips icon)
you can change the voice's

Also check Volume is ok
in Preferences,Volume preferences.
Regards.

it is available here in some of these sites ..........

www.easydevices.co.uk/pp/Dedicated_GPS/TomTom_GO/TOMTOM_ONE_XL_-_UK_AND_IRELAND.html

www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/gps_tomtom_onexl_france/cmr7_cmp396_cm.html

www.goodgearguide.com.au/index.php/taxid;2136212596;pid;3581;pt;3

atleast for me, UK TIM is the best. if you don't like, make your own voice ;)

I had the same problem, before realising that text-to-speech on the TomTom XL on'y works if you've selected a *computer-generated" voice - and not all of them are. "Samantha/English-US" is computer-generated, for example, but "Tim/English-UK" is not (it's a recorded voice). When choosing from options in the "Change voice" menu option, check the top-right hand corner to tell whether a voice is computer-generated or not. Hope this helps.

Hi,

Thanks for the acknowledgement.
Sometimes ( mostly in fact ) there is more than one files ascociated with a voice. One file is for the Icon to show you on the tomtom what voice it is ( its the little picture ) . the other file is the voice data itself. So , in that case you would need to download both files to get the voice. Once you have them on your PC you need to copy both files to the "Voices Folder " on your TomTom SD card or Hard Drive ( some tomtomts have a small hard drive fitted ) .
OK , so once you have the files on your TomTom and in the right folder you would then need to switch on the TomTom and go to preferences , then change voice in order to select that voice on your TomTom.

Good luck.

Hi, Yes . You can get many free voices on the internet . For funny or famous people try :
http://www.ozpoi.com/TomTom_Voices.html

or try a look here :

http://gps-data-team.com/pda-gps-navigation/links/index.php

Good luck

Hi there

As the TomTom is making beeping sounds, its a good indication that its not a hardware fault, it sounds to me its a software issue.

What you could do is try to reinstall the voices on your device. To do this, follow these steps:-

I presume you have TomTom Home installed already, if not you can download it from
http://www.tomtom.com/home

STEP 1 Make a Backup

• Connect your TomTom to the computer and switch it on
• Open TomTom Home
• Click on 'backup and restore' and make a backup if you haven't done so already
  

Once the backup has been made, please do the following:-

STEP 2 Remove the existing voice files

• Open My Computer, you will see the TomTom as two removable drives, one will be the internal memory and one will be for the SD card slot on the device.
• Click into the Internal memory drive, you should see a whole load of files and folders.
• You should see a folder called LoquendoTTS or Loquendo, click into this folder and delete the contents (all the files and folders inside the loquendo folder)
• Go back to the root directory of the TomTom and delete the folder 'Voices'
  

STEP 3 Download and Reinstall the voices via TomTom Home

• Go back to TomTom Home
• Click on Add Maps, traffic and Voices
• Select Voices. Loacate the voice of Jane and Tim and add them to your device
• Go back to the main menu of TomTom Home, click on Add Maps, traffic and Voices -> Computer Voices and install the voice of Kate or Simon (UK English computer voices)
• Close TomTom Home and also Close it from the system tray. (in the bottom right hand corner of your screen down by the computer clock, you should see a red icon for TomTom Home, Right click on it and choose 'exit')
  

STEP 4 Install the Clear Flash Tool from TomTom

• Once Home has closed completely, please download and install the clear flash tool from:- http://www.tomtom.com/updates/clear_flash/clear_flash.exe (Home must be completely closed, otherwise it may not install correctly)
• Accept the license agreement and keep pressing the Next arrow until the clear flash tool has installed.
• Your device will start flashing to say there is some activity on your device
• When your device has finished flashing on the screen (might take a minute), use the 'safely remove hardware' feature of your PC to disconnect the TomTom
• Switch the TomTom off then take it out of the dock.
  

STEP 5 Test the voices

• Switch the TomTom back on, but not connected to the dock
• Let it load up to the main navigation screen
• Tap onto the menu and tap onto 'Change Preferences -> Voice Preferences'.
• Select a non-computer voice i.e. Jane or Tim and press test. You should now hear the voice instruction
• Try selecting the voice of Kate or Simon i.e. the computer voices, and press test, you should now hear the computer voice.
  

This should get the voices working again, if not it might be worth giving TomTom Support a call and they can talk you through it.

Hope this works for you

regards

The Warlock

These steps are for my TomTom One (2008) model.

1. Once you have turned on your TomTom tap the screen.
2. Tap 'Change preferences'
3. Tap the arrow to get to page 2 of Preferences
4. Tap 'Change voice'
5. Tap arrows until you get a computer voice - I chose Samantha.
6. Tap the 'Select' button to the right of the voice picture.
7. This screen is labelled 'Speech preferences' and the first one is 'Read aloud street names'
8. Tap the box to the right to select this preference.

Good luck.

Try activating the voice agian or the voice file might be corrputed or deleted.

You have to have the cspeech files in your map of England for voice recognition. Cspeech is only in the larger maps.