Bug 278751

Summary:	voice direction should give distance of next turning,etc.
Product:	[Applications] marble	Reporter:	bugspamme2012
Component:	general	Assignee:	marble-bugs
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nienhueser
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	some future version
Platform:	Maemo 5
OS:	Linux
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Description bugspamme2012 2011-07-29 03:56:24 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 1.2) 
OS:                Linux

currently, voice direction kicks in at the turning point.

Reproducible: Didn't try


Actual Results:  
no distance to turning point information given in voice navigation

Expected Results:  
something like

right turn in 1km
right turn in 0.5 km
right turn in 100m
turn right

Comment 1 Dennis Nienhüser 2011-07-30 11:20:09 UTC

You also get an announcement about 800 meters in front of a turn.

I had distance announcements implemented, but disabled them for the releases since phonon on Maemo is not able to do gapless playback, resulting in output like "Turn right" ... "after" ... "100" ... "meters" (each ... a silence of about a second).

Comment 2 bugspamme2012 2011-07-30 23:40:02 UTC

outch, that's bad news. i know that having custom recorded voices is a cool feature, but would it be possible to have a user option to fall back on espeak? as voice turn by turn instructions are more important than cool voices. I have the mbrola espeak voices installed and they're quite good.

'modrana' on the n900 allows users to edit the espeak command for voice navigation. my espeak command on modrana is set to

espeak -v mb-en1 -s 120 -m %qmessage% and it works very well.