Please note that if Android Auto isn't supported in your country, search through voice commands and the Search bar will only be available in English. Say 'OK Google' or select the microphone. The voices are sorted by overall review score. Connect your mobile device to your vehicle with a USB cable. Then, I summarized my comments about the unique features of each voice and provided the link to download the voice yourself. There are a few other videos you can check out that I included in the spreadsheet: (Video Here) Here’s a great example of a custom Waze voice made by Drew Lynch. The best part? They’re shareable! Searching for the perfect voice, I went through every Waze voice I could find (there were 45 at the time of posting) and rated them on how funny they were, how long you could realistically listen to the voice, and how good the audio quality was. Waze recently released its custom voice feature, allowing anyone to record their own voices to use for their GPS. To use these features, please ensure you’re using Waze version 4.26.I asked the mods before posting this here but I know Reddit is anti blog so here's a pasted version of the article (Tried formatting it here as best I could!):
Download the voices on funvoicegps and install on WAZE its simple & fast. Note: Please remember to be accurate while recording for safety’s sake. Download the voices of your favorite stars, youtubers, your friends or even recorded your personalized voice with a touch of quirky humor on the WAZE app and share it on funvoicegps to share with your friends & everyone. To play your recording back, tap the play icon. Tap on the type of direction you’d like to record tap the record icon to start recording and stop when you’ve finished recording.Tap Name your voice to give your set of recordings a name and tap Done.
The following steps are for Android devices, the process may differ for iPhone users – the option has only just become available on iOS. Insanity writes, Anyone else experiencing an issue with trying to use Waze on the.
It’s doesn’t cost anything to do so or use, but relies on the data from your phone for routing and traffic updates. Louis, raises the issue about the popular navigation app called Waze. Getting back to using your own voice for navigation – here’s a blow by blow guide of what you need to do.įirst download and install the app. In fact, many people suggest Waze is just Google Maps in disguise.
Interestingly Waze is also one of only two navigation apps that are provided for Uber drivers to use – Google Maps is the other one. It’s not surprising as Waze won the Best Overall App award at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, ahead of Dropbox and Flipboard.įacebook was also rumoured to be interesting in getting it hands on the business. Get it wrong and you get to chastise yourself for being an idiot – how good is that?įor those not familiar with Waze it was started by three Israelis back in 2006, but acquired by Google for close to $1 billion big ones in 2013. Some of us like being told where to go by a bloke, others prefer to take their instructions from a woman, or perhaps one of the many celebrity voices that are available for download for use with GPS navigation programs.īut Waze has taken the whole idea a step further allowing users to record their own dulcet tones so they can tell themselves where to turn next or make a U-turn.