{"id":278,"date":"2014-10-10T15:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-10-10T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:52:59","slug":"crazy-taxi-garmin-gps-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/10\/crazy-taxi-garmin-gps-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Taxi Garmin GPS Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a project I&#8217;d been talking about for years, but never actually pulled it off until recently.  It&#8217;s a voice set for a Garmin GPS, which replaces the default &#8220;narrator&#8221; with the obnoxious announcer from Crazy Taxi.<br \/>\nAll voice clips were pulled from the PC version of the game, which had them in convenient .wav format already.  Some trim \/ normalize with Audacity and import into Garmin Voice Studio to assemble together.  I wanted to do more than just the announcer, but didn&#8217;t have any luck with that&#8230; there just weren&#8217;t enough clips to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the system in action:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crazy Taxi GPS - Garmin Voice Pack\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xfhDsmHAsI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hosted all the downloadables on archive.org.  You can get it from here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Garmin-CrazyTaxiVoice\" title=\"Garmin - Crazy Taxi Voice on archive.org\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Garmin-CrazyTaxiVoice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a project I&#8217;d been talking about for years, but never actually pulled it off until recently. It&#8217;s a voice set for a Garmin GPS, which replaces the default &#8220;narrator&#8221; with the obnoxious announcer from Crazy Taxi. All voice clips were pulled from the PC version of the game, which had them in convenient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}