subject: Simple Steps For Downloading Gps Voices [print this page] Initially invented to suit the military purposes, GPS is a Global Positioning System which is based on satellite and used to navigate with the support of twenty four satellites in orbit placed by the Department of Defense in US. But nowadays GPS is also used for commercial purposes in airplanes, cars and boats to navigate and position. Very useful in outdoor amateur pursuits like kayaking, fishing and hiking GPS has now gone much popular.
Your car's in-built GPS often has a generic voice to give you directions that you end up listening to when you drive and look for directions. If you are lucky enough you can have those stock devices that come with inbuilt alternate voices. But if you wish to impress your friends you have an option of downloading and installing some intriguing voices. These voices can be husky or sultry. It depends on your picking of voices from text-to-speech. Besides, you can simply have digital support to show the right direction on your journey through the world. You can turn your favorite gizmos into GPS navigator with the aid of GPS application.
Thanks to the collaboration between TomTom, Garmin and Navtones, you can now get a variety of voices in various styles. This means you have a broader choice of voices now.
You can download the voices by connecting your Garmin GPS device to your computer. The practice is very simple where you have to just connect the GPS device to the computer and click the download button. You can extract the voices. Browse and find Garmin / Voice folder on the Garmin drive. And by following simple steps you will finally get to your favorite voices.
If you are not happy with the voice you have downloaded, you can always change it. It is also a simple process where you have to go to the Settings in your GPS receiver and first select language and later voice of your preference. Simply click OK button on it and there you are. All the stated procedures imply that it is extremely simple to download GPS voices. Try and download now in order to get a voice of your choice.
