There must be a way to change the voice commands it uses to the celebrity stuff...
i doubt you can do it. Tom Tom and google are completely different companies, meaning their programs wouldnt be alike anyways. Ultimately, tom tom celeb voices are just a feature to draw in more money imo.
But do you think it would be possible to find what speech Nav needs, then sub in some new audio? Then it would only be work to slowly sub in recorded speech from anywhere, possible ripped audio files from the tom tom software? Basically, Pulling only the audio resources from a tom tom like product software, and diverting the audio pull from google nav to these stored audio tracts. I understand that google is using the text to speech software, but from what I've seen, it creates the audio it need, then stores it and plays it. After A Google Nav trip, I have leftover vocal files on the sd card. (Running app2sd from cyan).
Seems like it could be tricked... Wish i knew code more.
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Is that software that will emulate background sounds (such as being at the dentist) whilst you are speaking to someone on the phone?
If so, can I have a link, please?
hahaha the idea is awesome!
I remember looking for a voice changer. And what I could understand from the threats is that Windows Mobile does not allow you to inject audio (or something like that).
However it could be cool if it could output on the external speaker as you're talking.
Is there an mediaplayer that can playback on the external speaker only while you're on the phone?
There was one available when I had a symbian phone, so im assuming there must be a WM one around somewhere.
I would really like to see a developer merge the music app with co-pilot and make some type of car PC ui. I just got the multifunction adapter and I have to say that I have found the best use of my phone yet. I don't really have to worry about battery life or cd's. I know its kind of a huge task to undertake but I really think that this would appeal to a lot of people
Well, Android is a multitasking OS, a full merge of the multiple programs isn't needed as the two programs can coexist without issue. Is there some issue with the audio subsystem not allowing the copilot instructions to play if the audio is playing or not allowing the audio to play when copilot is running? If this issue exists, then it wouldn't be in the copilot or media app where the change needs to be made, but in the android audio subsystems.
And FYI: it isn't possible for "some developer" to make modifications like this to copilot, since it is CLOSED SOURCE. Any new features to copilot would have to be added by ALK themselves.
Is it possible to Fudge a location to a specific program? I would like to use pandora to listen to music, but it is not available in my country (Australia), is there a way i can trick it into working here, like the maps navigation?
I suppose not then.
Can anyone recommend an audio player that is better than the SE one?
Happy to pay if it's worth it.
The one thing I do like on the X2 is it's ability to store a bunch of my CDs so I can play them.
I just wish the media player was a bit better:
- bigger pic of the CD cover would be nice
- more info about the CD (e.g. year released)
- better info on tracks (if the track is from a various artists CD let me see which artist the track is by)
That's all I can think of right now.
Thanks.
winamp for ppc perhaps
i think its called WinamPAQ
john3136 said:
Can anyone recommend an audio player that is better than the SE one?
Happy to pay if it's worth it.
The one thing I do like on the X2 is it's ability to store a bunch of my CDs so I can play them.
I just wish the media player was a bit better:
- bigger pic of the CD cover would be nice
- more info about the CD (e.g. year released)
- better info on tracks (if the track is from a various artists CD let me see which artist the track is by)
That's all I can think of right now.
Thanks.
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Nitrogen is a freeware player which isn't bad & has an EQ & is skinable. Now, Pocket Player is (IMHO) the absolute BEST player on Windows Mobile. It has an EQ & ability to do 'full-screen' Album covers. The only caveat: they are NOT on Windows Marketplace, and if you have to reset the phone & reinstall, you're going to have to beg them for another key. (I *HATE* that kind of crap, and I've gotten to the point where I go out of my way to AVOID anything that's not on Marketplace. Also, Marketplace lets you download on up to 5 devices, ...so for me: I don't have to re-buy all the stuff I bought on the X1 for my X2.)
Please AVOID at all costs the Kinoma (payware) player. Although it looks like you're getting a great bargain, it has a default setting to always "search the entire phone" for new content. And, even if you turn that off, every now-and-then it loses its cookies and forces you to unexpectedly re-catalog the entire phone (usually, when you MOST want to 'just listen to music').
PocketMusic is another freeware player, that supposedly supports WinAmp skins, and has an EQ. I found this one really flaky with a CLUNKY interface that was well-bested by Nitrogen.
...Now, after all was said-and-done, I'm back to using plain-vanilla Windows Media Player. This is for a number of reasons:
1) It's skinable, too. (Look for the toadlife_Sense25_WMP_Skin_signed.cab; it's HTC-like, but really clean)
2) It is fast at cataloging tunes, and I don't know how it does it, but doesn't take a gb or two to do it (Kinoma; I'm *****ing at you!), and it's completely at your discretion when you want to update it.
3) Album-size, while not as fancy as I'd like, is not bad.
4) Using the default X2 Saturn skin (MR2 firmware), WMP's library selection doesn't look bad (although it doesn't show album art like PocketPlayer or some others), and is fairly finger-able.
5) BOTTOM LINE: I noticed that (although it doesn't have a built-in EQ), the sound quality is actually noticeably better than Nitrogen & PocketMusic provided. It seems as if WMP engages some sort of noise-canceling when actual signal is produced. You can hear it kick-in when you hit play. And, this is not to say that dynamic range is reduced. I think it sounds better in-ear than on X1, in general, even though I was able to run the HTC EQ in the background on X1 (not compatible with X1, due to the hardware not being HTC).
For me, Slideview entirely crashes after a few mins anytime I run it. I have a 16gb card with LOTS of pictures, games, emus & music. Unfortunately, Slideview is very persistent and you can't hack the registry to limit what folders it looks in (it just HAS to look everywhere). There seems to be some files (possibly emus) that it thinks are Videos (but are not) and when it gets to refreshing them, craps out.
But, WMP works well for me. --If you can't live with it, go for PocketPlayer. I may go back to it someday, myself... but I want to be absolutely sure I won't do a full-phone-refresh someday. I've had the X2 for a little over a month, and am pretty well-settled, but ...there were a lot things I tried/uninstalled, etc. which have probably bloated my registry (I might have to break down and reload one day).
Is it possible to create an app or something for a custom rom which can display on a cars Android auto head unit without depending on google services?
I guess no. There are a lot of permissions and functions provided through Google Play Services (like exact GPS position...).
You can easily create an app for music control video playback and even map navigation without the need for Google Play Services.
The main problem is, developers should need to reverse-engineer the Android Auto communication protocol between the phone and the headunit, and then build the video and audio streaming on top of that. This is hard and slow effort, with a constant risk of it being sued to oblivion by Google.
In this case you're better using an Android-based headunit and a headunit launcher with map support, something like AutoMate.