It allows you to record and use your own voices for the unit, and its pretty cool. Here are the instructions from the Garmin website:Ī great alternative to having custom voices on your Garmin, is by using the Garmin Voice Studio. Installation is pretty simple, and straightforward. Nightmare” that are for free:Ĭelebrity Voices offer voices of major celebrities, like Morgan Freeman, Hannibal Lecter, Alan Rickman (main villain in “Die Hard”), etc. And they have cool voices like the chipmunk-like “Squirelly”, or the horror sounding “Dr. Garmin offers the cheapest voices so far, with their “Spongebob” voice at only USD 6. The Pigtones website has their own versions of iconic voices like Yoda (they call it “Pagoda”), for example, or Arnold Schwarzenegger (“Governator”), which are pretty good as they sound like the real thing, but expensive at USD 10 each: They also have Knight Rider’s “Kitt” voice (way cool), and David Hasselhoff’s voices, but they are not free, and costs USD 10 each: The Navtones website offers some free voices, but they are the not-so-well known voices. There are a couple of good sites that offer custom voices for Garmin units, but the good ones are paid, and expensive. Below is the instruction page on how to install the custom icons:

Installation is simple and straightforward. Just to be sure, you might want to look at the right side of the page to see if these custom vehicle icons are compatible with your unit. They range from Spongebob rowing a boat, to the “Black Pearl”, to airplanes, etc.: So proceed at your own risk.)ĭownloading and use of the vehicle icons is FREE, and here are the available icons from the Garmin website. (Warning: Even though these customizations are, indeed, simple, modifying a gadget’s software always involves a certain amount of risk, which can lead to cause the unit to malfunction. So feedbacks are welcome if you decide to try them out. However, I haven’t tried them out yet on my unit, but intend to do so as soon as I can. The good thing about these customizations, is that they are relatively easy to do, and just involves downloading files, and then transferring them to specific folders on the device. – By changing the voice that guides you as you travel down the road – By changing the vehicle icon (the icon at the bottom center of the screen that represents your vehicle) As of this writing, there are two ways with which you can customize your Garmin GPS device:

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