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Offline Pir8Man

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VIOT question
« on: July 28, 2007, 02:29:42 am »
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 ?
« Last Edit: July 28, 2007, 07:42:39 pm by Pir8Man »
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Offline sbingner

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Re: VOIT question
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2007, 02:09:49 pm »
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Offline Pir8Man

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Re: VOIT question
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2007, 07:43:32 pm »
Quote from: sbingner on July 28, 2007, 02:09:49 pm
look at http://wiki.phathack.com/VIOT

not VOIT

sorry about the typo... I read that first.  doesnt answer my question though.
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Re: VIOT question
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2007, 04:14:35 pm »
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.
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Offline Pir8Man

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Re: VIOT question
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2007, 06:54:50 pm »
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.
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Re: VIOT question
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2007, 07:06:22 pm »
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.
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Offline Pir8Man

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Re: VIOT question
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2007, 08:01:23 pm »
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?
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Re: VIOT question
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2007, 03:24:11 am »
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.
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