Root need some help on tts

[kobel1up]

Well if you are like me you hate using the navigation on the phone because of the stupid robotic voice. So I did some searching and found svox English voice. Sounds soo much better I love it. My problem after the install I tried it out and it will switch back in forth between the 2 voices.

This is where I need the help. I had to install talk to speech extended and I think the original talk to speech is affecting it. I am running XtrRom 5.0, and it already had the talk to speech installed. I have never removed programs from my phone other than apps. I do have root explorer just can't find the right file to get rid of. Thanks for the help.

 

[metlcat]

First of all, make sure you do a nandroid before you attempt to remove anything in the system/app folder. I did a quick look at my phone (running Tazz Gingerbread) and it looks like TtsService.apk is the file you want to delete. I can't say if it is safe to delete or not, so like I said make a nandroid. I don't know if tts uses anything else that would need to be removed as well. Good luck, and if you figure it out post it here so we know.

 

[Bob Cat]

Can you freeze an apk file with TI?

 

[Jrocker23]

Titanium Backup can freeze apps

 

[Bob Cat]

Titanium Backup can freeze apps

My bad. I meant TB instead of TI.

 

[Bob Cat]

Personally I've never used navigation on my phone. I use my Magellan when I need to find something.

 

[kobel1up]

Ok sorry I haven't posted what I found. I do know that 2.2 my new navigation voice works, on 2.1 I have the robot chick. I did remove ttsservice.apk, and ttsservice.odex. Now I found out that the odex file you want to keep. lol I still had a nand backup so I just restored and all is good, just need to remove the apk and see if that works.

 

[kobel1up]

Maybe it's the picotts.apk, I will try that next.

FYI don't remove the ttsservice or odex, you can't install speech syntasis, so no text to speech.

 

[kobel1up]

If anyone else reads this post, I have found that the svox text to speech doesn't work right on the xtrrom5.0. No problems on 2.2 roms.