New voices for waze app android#

Originally just for Android, the feature recently made its way to iOS as well. Waze now lets you record your own voice, meaning you can be the one that tells you when it's time to turn left, when there's a hazard ahead and so on. Now, thanks to a recent update, you can get directions from the biggest star of all: you. Navigation app Waze has long offered a choice of voices, including the occasional celebrity. And you can share your voice with other users as well.

New voices for waze app android#

May wind up posting it for giggles after a test.Waze now lets both Android and iOS users record their own voices for navigation. I loved the John Cleese TomTom voice so I'm going to try to put together what's available and see how the voice pack will work as-is. 'in zero point one mile', 'in a quarter of a mile', 'in a half a mile' can be replaced with approximations of meters or yards, but 1 mile = 1760 yards or 1609 meters, and there's not really a good way around it unless we figure out a good substitute or someone's willing to put up with a different voice for it, or if someone were enterprising enough, find clips of the voice on youtube, in movies, etc. The one glaring problem besides the obvious missing 'Police/Accident/Hazard reported ahead' files, is that most of the TomTom voice packs are Imperial/Metric so there's files for '50,80,100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800' and 'meters' and 'yards' but none for English in the few packs I tried.

Made a list of the sound files available and mapped them from the TomTom files to Waze files.

I found a pretty large pack of TomTom voices, unpacked the files and converted them from. I also had Phil Miller downloaded, upgraded Waze and forgot to grab it before they nuked it. I couldn't remember if Yoda was a native voice I removed him from the list. : Updated with Morgan Freeman and Spanish Star Wars voicesДЄdded Safe Mode Kids to the list, thanks again. To the following users for either posting request threads, the files themselves or instructions.

Then open Waze and select the voice that you replaced its files with the discontinued voice files at Settings->Sound->Navigation guidance (for example: if you replaced eng_randy, then select the Randy voice, the name of the folders is the name of the voice in waze's settings).

Take the discontinued voice files, unzip them and copy them to one of the eng folders in /waze/sound/ (it will say that files with the same name already exist, just click on replace all).

Open the file manager and go to /waze/sound/, there you will see all sorts of folders called eng_ followed by the name of the voice(for example: eng_randy, eng_nathan, eng_stephen_colbert).

Overwrite the bin files inside the prompts directory you chose above, with the Arnold bin files you downloaded.

Wait for the prompts in Waze to download.

In Waze, choose prompts other than the default (e.g.

Transfer folder to /waze/documents/sound via iFunbox (Full path: /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/Waze*/Documents/sound).

IPhone (credit to u/roblee8908)(use iFunbox or iFile if jailbroken): Missing: Ichabod Crane (Sleepy Hollow), Phil Miller (Last Man on Earth), Ultron (Spanish, The Avengers) I had a request for the NPH voice files yesterday and discovered that Waze hadn't cleared out some of the other voice packs I'd downloaded yet, so I figured I'd share those and some of the others out in the wild, make it a little easier for iPhone and Android users to deal with and try out.