If you use a navigation device you are familiar with a friendly voice guiding you to your destination. SVOX is a Swiss company that creates voices for navigation systems built into BMW, VW, Chrysler, Ferrari, and many other cars.
SVOX is now bringing its voice solutions to the Android Market. Use our voices in cool Android apps for navigation, e-book reading, speech-to-speech translation, language learning, and games.
A user made the following great video of the new voice app layout (in Hungarian):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlLZZJs3OQs
Who makes a video of the other 39 voices and 24 languages?
The interface for the voices was revamped. New functionality includes a text editor, voice control sliders, loading and saving texts, and sharing the results with your friends. An extensive help menu was added giving you access to the FAQ page, list of apps that use the Android TTS interface, user testimonials, and more.
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Today two new SVOX voices were released on the Android Market:
Enjoy!
We’re happy to release version 2.0.9 of the Classic Engine that solves two issues users had reported about:
Please keep the feedback coming!
There are occasional problems with Android Market that make it impossible to install a paid app. The installation fails because of a locked file. Solutions are to mount the phone on the PC and manually remove “/mnt/secure/asec/smdl2tmp1.asec” or an empty folder named “.android_secure”.
Several users reported that their voice stopped working in Google Navigation. The reason was a mismatch between the voice you’ve purchased and the default language on your Android. Update 2.0.6 of the Classic engine fixes this problem. The UK English voice will be used even if the language setting on your device is US English, and vice versa.
Alternatively if you use the UK English voice you can go to Android Settings -> Language & keyboard -> Select language and select English (United Kingdom) .
Thank you very, very much. I just want to say that these voice packs sound great. I love it!
SVOX Mobile Voices now offers over 25 languages in the Android Market and over 30 voices.
The available languages are Arabic, Czech, Mandarin, Danish, German, Greek, English UK, English US, Finnish, French, French CA, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese BR, Russian, Spanish, Spanish MX, Swedish, Turkish, and Cantonese.
Male voices for most languages to be added in the coming days!
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