VIOT question

[Pir8Man]

ok, this may be stupid, but I dont know.

I have a Kenwood Keg and a Kenwood deck.  I want to add SSA voices to my system.
I think I just read that the SSA hack doesnt work with the Kenwood firmware.  So I believe I need the VIOT module.
I didnt want to spend the $75, but ok.
now it seems I cant order it anymore on phatnoise.com

question is... am i stuck ordering VIOT to get SSA with my kenwood system?

follow up to that is ... if so, where can i get it from ?

[sbingner]

look at http://wiki.phathack.com/VIOT

not VOIT

[Pir8Man]

look at http://wiki.phathack.com/VIOT

not VOIT

sorry about the typo... I read that first.  doesnt answer my question though.

[judb]

actually it does answer the question, or it should answer it.  read the whole thing twice and see if you see some instructions or something to follow.

[Pir8Man]

that just brings me back to my original confusion.  I applied the Kenwood Custom SSA patch.  I dont see any difference.

Is it enabled? if so how do I make it work? 
I am all new to this ssa stuff. I just want better audio from my announcements.

[judb]

use the scan feature of your head unit to trigger SSA mode switches.  There is a PDF that used to be on phatnoise's site about how VIOT worked with the headunit.  Dunno if it is still around.

If the scan button doesn't trigger a mode switch announcement then it isn't working.

[Pir8Man]

i think its sort of working,  I can now change by genre or artist, etc.
which is cool.  but my main goal was to get better voices for the announcements. 
now, I hear 'the current artist is' in a clean voice. but the voice to say the actual artist is still all digitized.
how do i reproduce all my announcements with the Good voices?

[judb]

That has to do with the voices that are installed on your computer.

AT&T Natural Voices sound the best to me.  Look for PhatVoice, install that and you can improve the voices some but you need to get a better voice engine than Microsoft Sam or whatever.