Listening to GPSS
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Function
Provide audible information to the driver (driver does not have to look at the screen)
To Begin Audible Output
simply start GPSS
To Stop Audible Output
type q (for quiet)*
To Re-start Audible Output
type o then 'y' when the message bar reads, "Shall I say the same things again?"
To Hear Specific Information:
- repeat phrase  
- time  
- eating place  
- filling station  
- geocache  
- interesting place  
- location  
- tell me more  
- population center  
- railway station  
- sleeping place  
- where are we  

type a (Pardon?)
type c (What o'clock?
type e (Eating place?) - requires additional, ancillary files
type f (Filling station?) - requires additional, ancillary files
type g (Geocache) - requires additional, ancillary files
type i (Interesting place?) - requires additional, ancillary files
type l (Location?)
type m (Tell me more) - requires additional, ancillary files
type p (Population center?)

type r (Railway?) - requires additional, ancillary files
type s (Sleeping place) - requires additional, ancillary files
type w (Where are we?)
 
*Some keyboard and playback actions seem to turn the audible output on again - to silence it, type 'q' again.  
 
Some sounds requiring additional files, most benefiting from work by GPSS business partners.  

By default, GPSS talks to you in British English.

The upside: when GPSS talks to you, you don't need to look at a computer screen to know your whereabouts, speed, and heading.

There are perhaps two downsides. First, sound processing can slow things down - GPSS delays screen updates while sound is being produced. Second, after a while, enough's enough.

If you find yourself wishing GPSS would be quiet, you can mute your computer's sound output. Or, you can configure GPSS to speak less often or work entirely on the quiet. For how to do this, see "Configuration Files: SOUNDS.CFG" in the Related topics, below.

Related topics:
Technical: Configuration Files: SOUNDS.CFG
Technical: The Computer Talks to You


By Dave Gehman
© Copyright 2004, Robin Lovelock
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