Didn't Apple remove any default voice in 2021?
Jonathan
Didn't Apple remove any default voice in 2021?
I have the iPad set to Australian woman and the iPhone set to Irish man (seriously, has been set like this for a long time).simonineaston wrote: ↑1 Mar 2023, 4:03pmSiri is set to UK female. That selection seems to carry through to most other apps that have a voice. I didn't see Siri as a bloke. I wonder is there's a gender split for Siri's voice ie most blokes imagining she's female and most women prefering a man's voice. I remember a colleague had her satnav set to bloke, her comment being she rather fancied he sounded like George Clooney.I'll look into that - which voice do you usually use?
With a pause in between, as with "Zimbabwe" and "Khomeini"?Richard Fairhurst wrote: ↑2 Mar 2023, 1:52pm One thing I would very much like to do is make the voice country-sensitive, so if you're following a route in France it'd say
(English voice) Turn left onto
(French voice) Rue de la Republique
...
Are you familiar with the work of Rob Hatch??Richard Fairhurst wrote: ↑2 Mar 2023, 1:52pm One thing I would very much like to do is make the voice country-sensitive, so if you're following a route in France it'd say
(English voice) Turn left onto
(French voice) Rue de la Republique
<whoosh> !Jdsk wrote: ↑2 Mar 2023, 2:33pmWith a pause in between, as with "Zimbabwe" and "Khomeini"?Richard Fairhurst wrote: ↑2 Mar 2023, 1:52pm One thing I would very much like to do is make the voice country-sensitive, so if you're following a route in France it'd say
(English voice) Turn left onto
(French voice) Rue de la Republique
...
: - )
Jonathan
First of all - I think there's a bit of terminology confusion here. What cycle.travel calls "gravel", and Cycling UK calls "off-road" (it's the same routing), is unpaved routing. It's off-road as in bumpy, not off-road as in traffic-free. For traffic-free paved routes around Milton Keynes you should use c.t's standard routing option, which prefers traffic-free paths in any case.Nearholmer wrote: ↑28 Feb 2023, 8:52pmCycleTravel continues to pick needlessly long off-road routes within or through Milton Keynes, where I suspect it sort of gives up a bit (runs out of node-testing space?) because there are zillions to choose from.
There's a ferry marked in OpenStreetMap (where c.t gets its data from) - it's https://www.north58.co.uk/water-taxi.html . The OSM data is https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/514967551 which expressly says it carries bikes. I had a quick google and https://www.flickr.com/photos/tedandjen/9041816555 came up. Looks fairly basic!SimonCelsa wrote: ↑28 Feb 2023, 8:30pm Just tried a quick test route from Inverness to Findhorn - just a random choice of places close to home.
Strangely, using cycle.travel off road it routed me across Findhorn Bay. I'm fairly sure there's not a ferry running or a newly constructed bridge in the vicinity, and I don't think the tide ever gets that low even at spring low water.
I think most of these are OSM data issues. Hammersmith Bridge didn't have very good connections at either end - I've fixed that in OSM so c.t will pick it up on the next update.jgurney wrote: ↑4 Mar 2023, 12:58am Pretty good as online planners go. It did not make the errors that I have known several other make.
Unless set to 'fast' it tends to pick absurdly roundabout routes.
Some specific local issues I noticed:
- it treats Hammersmith Bridge in London as non-existent. This is open to pedestrians and makes a useful dismounted route.
- it does not alert users when it plots routes through parks, etc, which are closed at night.
- it sometimes plots routes along bridleways which are in fact mudbaths impractical as cycle routes (e.g. fropm Castle Cary to Hornblotton Green in Somerset, it recommends a very muddy bridleway instead of a slightly longer tarmac route). However it also sometimes avoids bridleways which have a good easily-cyclable surface.
- it occasionally marks 'cyclepaths' which do not exist at all or which are wholly within private property with no public access (e.g. it shows one such near Goldborough, N. Yorks, which is actually a dead-end farm track, and another inside the ICI works at Wilton, Teeside).
Which is greatly appreciated by those of us who delight in “English Gravel” (i.e. often mostly mud around here).c.t takes the view that if you've selected "gravel", you expressly don't want a route that stays on-road.