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Combine Audio Coach and Navigation voice and display settings
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When I tried the new Audio Coach during Navigation I was hoping that each announcement would use the same selected voice as Navigation. For example I setup a test with an announcement every 15 minutes, and every 5km. So on a long track segment between waypoints I still received some periodic hands-free announcement. I was hoping this would use the same display settings ie. turn on the display and use the selected "morse" (beep beep beep) "voice". Alas, the two systems are completely independent.
My suggestion is that when Audio Coach and Navigation both operating, that the user can decide whether the Audio Coach are independent, or use the same relevant settings as for Navigation.
I like this idea 
Good day Andrew,
can't imagine how these two features may be "connected".
- voice used in "Audio coach" is always Text-to-speech. It is not possible to use any custom mp3 based voice, because of complexity of announcements
- "turn on display" - settings clearly say that this is applied on navigation. Does it make sense to turn on screen because of "Audio coach announcement"?
Good day Andrew,
can't imagine how these two features may be "connected".
- voice used in "Audio coach" is always Text-to-speech. It is not possible to use any custom mp3 based voice, because of complexity of announcements
- "turn on display" - settings clearly say that this is applied on navigation. Does it make sense to turn on screen because of "Audio coach announcement"?
From user point of view, I was just trying to have more periodic notifications during navigation. Navigation and Coach are providing announcements, so seems natural to me they would attempt to coordinate their actions. Sometimes the road is long with no turns, so you have to manually turn on the display to check when the next turn will be. Not sure (generally) why more OGG files (maybe just 2) couldn't be added to the selected voice ZIP file which are used by Audio Coach for time and distance announcements.
From user point of view, I was just trying to have more periodic notifications during navigation. Navigation and Coach are providing announcements, so seems natural to me they would attempt to coordinate their actions. Sometimes the road is long with no turns, so you have to manually turn on the display to check when the next turn will be. Not sure (generally) why more OGG files (maybe just 2) couldn't be added to the selected voice ZIP file which are used by Audio Coach for time and distance announcements.
Well yes, they give an announcements, but navigation inform about what comes in future, where audio coach inform about already passed history.
If there will be interest, it should be possible to add also "audio coach announcements" into "Screen on/off" system, but I just really do not see extra sense in it.
And number of files ... if you record missing voices, I may think about it, anyway check configuration files for TTS ( http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:advanced:customization:tts ) , they are really really complicated. And because number of variables in audio coach is growing, it's almost impossible to offer voice files. Btw. why this? TTS does not work fine for you?
Anyway back to original problem here. If you really wants to have more feedback from Locus during navigation, more logical from my point of view is fix problem we discuss here . When this will work, you may simply setup notifications every minute and world will be nice :).
Well yes, they give an announcements, but navigation inform about what comes in future, where audio coach inform about already passed history.
If there will be interest, it should be possible to add also "audio coach announcements" into "Screen on/off" system, but I just really do not see extra sense in it.
And number of files ... if you record missing voices, I may think about it, anyway check configuration files for TTS ( http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:advanced:customization:tts ) , they are really really complicated. And because number of variables in audio coach is growing, it's almost impossible to offer voice files. Btw. why this? TTS does not work fine for you?
Anyway back to original problem here. If you really wants to have more feedback from Locus during navigation, more logical from my point of view is fix problem we discuss here . When this will work, you may simply setup notifications every minute and world will be nice :).
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