Nokia Own Voice for Ovi Maps

If you’re using some sort of GPS navigation for your car, how cool would it be if you’re actually able to use your own voice to play instructions for turn-by-turn navigation? Well, if you have one of those Nokia phones with Ovi Maps, perhaps you can.

Just download Own Voice for Ovi Maps at the Ovi Store and start recording all the 53 different speech prompts (just hit record as the prompt displays the text you need to say).

You can then bundle them together to create your very own voice packs. Zip them up and upload them or share them with your friends on Facebook so they can use it too.

I’m thinking more like using the voices of your favorite personalities or movie characters as voice packs just like what Tomtom did with their GPS units in the US. This one’s for Darth Vader:

I think it’s a toss-up between Master Yoda and Darth Vader.

Anybody familiar with that girl reporter with a sexy bedroom voice from Trapik.com? I think she can make an awesome voice pack. :D

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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8 Comments

myke says:

15 years ago

I’m an ovi maps dependent for quite some time now been lost twice though :p

I saw this app a couple of weeks ago but I haven’t tried it

what is the best replacement for “recalculating” -> @#$%! mali dinaanan mo!

too bad the philippine map is only 3mb I think it’s only for metro manila
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Cheftonio says:

15 years ago

Abe,

Free and accurately working ba ang navigation ng Ovi maps here around the metro?
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tech says:

15 years ago

better use gamrin XT kahit saan sa pinas pde.
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tech says:

15 years ago

better use garmin XT kahit saan sa pinas pde.
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Zylo says:

15 years ago

she’s SOP – Samantha On the Phone. =|
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Jovz says:

15 years ago

I’ve been highly dependent on Ovi Maps lately including our company outing in Laiya, Batangas. I just searched for the coordinates in Google, input them in Ovi Maps and I’m good to go =) I just hope that they release updated maps every month though. As for the girl in trapik.com, yup, her name is Samantha.
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tony L says:

15 years ago

the maps actually extend outside of NCR. Problem is sometimes, roads that are supposed to be there according to the map (probably based on urban/dpwh plans) aren’t. probably converted into residential areas or the budget was spent for something else… a mansion perhaps. =)

anyway, it will be very handy in the metro. just watch out for “one way” roads.OVI maps dont seem to pick that up.
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Alexei Rivera says:

15 years ago

Did you know that Samantha On the Phone is also the traffic girl in another station (Campus Radio? I believe) and is called a tagalog name. She does tagalog traffic there.
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