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I love the Navigation app on Android. The voice it uses is fine, but I'd like a little variety. I'd settle for it using the British voice that's available on the phone. However, I've changed the Text-to-speech setting on the phone for language to British, but it hasn't changed the voice used by Navigation. There is not a setting in Navigation for the voice. Assuming it uses the "locale" setting, my only options on the Droid are "English" or "Español".

Am I stuck? Does this require root?

In case it matters, I'm still currently on Android 2.2.

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    I'm shocked that there isn't a thriving market of user-contributed voice packs...it must be harder to manipulate than I'd thought... –  Aug 09 '10 at 19:19
  • please let there more that want this! – mfg Aug 19 '10 at 18:46
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    It's worth noting that the Navigation voice is (if I understand correctly) not actually generated on the phone; it's downloaded from Google's servers along with the route. –  Aug 24 '10 at 11:53

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This is apparently not possible with Android 2.2 on Motorola Droid.

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The SVOX Classic TTS system replaces the (robotic) native Android Pico_TTS (and Pico_TTS is generating the speech onboard the phone)

free main application https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic

$3 voices like the British Victoria voice https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic.langpack.eng_gbr_fem