TomTom Mandarin Voice Transcript

bazza
 September 25, 2008, 03:36 PM posted in General Discussion

I'm currently trying to understand the mandarin voice commands on my tomtom satnav and I found a program that breaks it down into individual audio files.

Here is a zip file of the audio files in ogg format.

# '2ndLeft.ogg' => 'Take the second left' - 第二个路口请左转
# '2ndRight.ogg' => 'Take the second right' - 第二个路口请右转
# '3rdLeft.ogg' => 'Take the third left' - 第三个路口请左转
# '3rdRight.ogg' => 'Take the third right' - 第三个路口请右转
# '50.ogg' => '50' - 五十
# '80.ogg' => '80' - 八十
# '100.ogg' => '100' - 一百
# '200.ogg' => '200' - 二百
# '300.ogg' => '300' - 三百
# '400.ogg' => '400' - 四百
# '500.ogg' => '500' - 五百
# '600.ogg' => '600' - 六百
# '700.ogg' => '700' - 七百
# '800.ogg' => '800' - 八百
# 'AhExit.ogg' => 'Exit ahead' - 前方有出口
# 'AhExitLeft.ogg' => 'ahead, Exit left' - 请走前方左车出口驶出
# 'AhExitRight.ogg' => 'ahead, Exit right' - 请走前方右左车出口驶出
# 'AhFerry.ogg' => 'Ferry ahead' - 请在前方传连渡
# 'AhKeepLeft.ogg' => 'Ahead, keep left' - 前方请靠左侧行驶
# 'AhKeepRight.ogg' => 'Ahead, keep right' - 前方请靠右侧行驶
# 'AhLeftTurn.ogg' => 'Left turn ahead' - 上后请准备左转
# 'AhRightTurn.ogg' => 'Right turn ahead' - 上后请准备右转
# 'AhUTurn.ogg' => 'U-turn ahead' - 前方到路可以掉头
# 'Arrive.ogg' => 'You have reached your destination' - 前方已到达目的地
# 'BearLeft.ogg' => 'Bear left' - 请上左行驶
# 'BearRight.ogg' => 'Bear right' - 请上右行驶
# 'Charge.ogg' => 'Congestion charge' - 前方有受费站
# 'Depart.ogg' => 'Depart' - 出发
# 'KeepLeft.ogg' => 'Keep left' - 请靠左行驶
# 'KeepRight.ogg' => 'Keep right' - 请靠右行驶
# 'LnLeft.ogg' => 'Stay in the left lane' - 请保车在左侧车到行驶
# 'LnRight.ogg' => 'Stay in the right lane' - 请保车在右侧车到行驶
# 'Meters.ogg' => 'Metres' (after) - 米后
# 'MwEnter.ogg' => 'Take the motorway' - 请上高速公路
# 'MwExit.ogg' => 'Leave the motorway' - 请从前方路口驶路
# 'MwExitLeft.ogg' => 'Leave motorway at exit on left' - 请从前方路口左撤驶路
# 'MwExitRight.ogg' => 'Leave motorway at exit on right' - 请从前方路口右撤驶路
# 'RbBack.ogg' => 'Go around the roundabout' - 请沿环岛绕行
# 'RbCross.ogg' => 'Cross the roundabout' - 请沿环岛
# 'RbExit1.ogg' => 'First exit' - 在第一个出口驶去环岛
# 'RbExit2.ogg' => 'Second exit' - 在第二个出口驶去环岛
# 'RbExit3.ogg' => 'Third exit' - 在第三个出口驶去环岛
# 'RbExit4.ogg' => 'Fourth exit' - 在第四个出口驶去环岛
# 'RbExit5.ogg' => 'Fifth exit' - 在第五个出口驶去环岛
# 'RbExit6.ogg' => 'Sixth exit' - 在第六个出口驶去环岛
# 'RbLeft.ogg' => 'Go left on the roundabout' - 请游环岛口左行驶
# 'RbRight.ogg' => 'Go right on the roundabout' - 请游环岛口右行驶
# 'RoadEnd.ogg' => 'At the end of the road' - 在前方道路的终点
# 'SharpLeft.ogg' => 'Sharp left' - 请上左后方转弯
# 'SharpRight.ogg' => 'Sharp right' - 请上右后方转弯
# 'Straight.ogg' => 'Go straight on' - 请直行
# 'TakeFerry.ogg' => 'Take the ferry' - 清乘轮渡
# 'Then.ogg' => 'Then' - 然后
# 'TryUTurn.ogg' => 'Turn around when possible' - 请在适当的路转掉头
# 'TurnLeft.ogg' => 'Turn left' - 请左转
# 'TurnRight.ogg' => 'Turn Right' - 请右转
# 'UTurn.ogg' => 'Make a U-turn' - 请掉头
# 'Yards.ogg' => 'Yards' (after) - 码后

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bazza
 September 24, 2008, 10:06 AM

If anyone is having problems playing the ogg files, I know that Audacity will play them.

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bazza
 September 25, 2008, 06:15 PM

eyux, if we're right with the transcripts above then Chinese for roundabout is 环岛.

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bazza
 September 24, 2008, 11:35 AM

Yeah, I uploaded them myself, I was going to link each filename above the individual files but after inserting about 10 links, I thought sod this and put them in a zip file. :)

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henning
 September 24, 2008, 11:53 AM

Cool stuff, Bazza!

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calkins
 September 24, 2008, 03:55 PM

She is very polite!  Hey Bazza, has she gotten you lost yet?

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mattwhyndham
 September 24, 2008, 05:06 PM

Bazza, do you find, as I do, that on the Tom Tom itself the Chinese voices are "mixed" at a low level, and that you need to up the volume compared with the English voices?

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bazza
 September 25, 2008, 06:01 AM

@calkins, she might have done if I'd relied on just the Chinese voice.

@matt, haven't really noticed.

I think I need help with the remaining gaps now, I can't work them out.

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sushan
 September 25, 2008, 07:07 AM

This was a great exercise and fun. Here are my guesses:

ahead exit right/left 请走前方 右／左 车出口 驶出

leave motorway 请从前方路口驶路

mwexit right/left 请从前方路口 右／左 撤 驶路

sharp right/left turn: 请 上 右／左后 方转弯

u turn where possible: 请在 适当 的 路转掉头

I hope we are right about 驶 which I don't remember running into before; would it be a term used more in Taiwan?

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bazza
 September 25, 2008, 09:10 AM

Thanks sushan, any ideas on the remaining 3 with question marks?

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sushan
 September 25, 2008, 01:32 PM

Take ferry  清乘 轮渡

I have no idea what a roundabout is in English, but I think the word used is 沿, so:

cross roundabout 请 沿环岛

go around the roundabout 请 沿环岛 绕行

 

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bababardwan
 September 24, 2008, 10:24 AM

Good tip bazza and thanks for these audio's.Yeah,my computer extracted them in Windows Media player.Opening them in windows media player worked fine,but the trouble was it then wouldn't close and kept generating an error message.Couldn't open it in quicktime or another programme.Couldn't click on the file and choose audacity to open it either for some reason ,but if I opened audacity and then navigated to it ,it then worked fine.Don't know much about ogg files.When I was downloading them,it looked like it was coming from your own website! Thanks again.

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sebire
 September 25, 2008, 04:48 PM

Hmm, I tried to embed a video, but that didn't work. Anyway, if anyone wants to see Magic Roundabouts in action, you could do far worse than seeing our local one. Couldn't find a pic, so this will have to do. Evidently some people are keen on roundabouts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dICyE9xtJZA

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sushan
 September 25, 2008, 04:58 PM

aha - they are known as traffic circles on this side of the Atlantic. But are so confusing I understand that they have been outlawed in some provinces.     Thanks : )

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sebire
 September 25, 2008, 05:20 PM

Outlawed the roundabout?! But they are so much better than traffic lights!

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henning
 September 25, 2008, 05:33 PM

As far as I know the roundabouts / traffic circles have been proven the superior concept several times in terms of accident rates - with statistic significance. Unfortunatelly due to space constraints you only rarly see them in Germany.

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bazza
 September 25, 2008, 06:02 PM

I was in Frankfurt over the weekend on business and thinking about I did only see one roundabout I think.

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barryb
 September 25, 2008, 06:03 PM

Roundabouts are great - they keep the traffic flowing and in light traffic you don't even need to stop.

Yes, they waste space, but in the UK we now have roundabouts that are just a one metre diameter white circle of paint. At night you can just drive straight over them.

I've seen them in China, so what's Chinese for roundabout? (Not in my dictionary.) It must include 圈 - quan1 - circle?

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sebire
 September 25, 2008, 06:05 PM

I saw two in succession in Berkeley, CA. We were so surprised, we drove all the way round them (I wasn't driving).

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bazza
 September 25, 2008, 06:11 PM

Sebire, the one in the picture I posted is in Swindon.

Here is a video of someone driving around it:

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bazza
 September 25, 2008, 03:30 PM

This is a roundabout, we have loads in the UK.

They're usually pretty easy to navigate, but in some cases they can be a little complex. lol