Changing Voice from male to female

Question

Hello!
I founded out how to change the voice from male to female. There is a XML File in the folder, for example on my phone: E:\cities\GERMAN\CONFIG.XML. Copy this file to your PC and edit the file with notepad. Change the string "_male" to "_female" and save the file. Than copy it back into the old folder. Now you have the female voice.
@Nokia: Please add a function in Maps 2.0 to make this change in the menu. THX
HarryTrotter
HarryTrotter
Nokia E90

Answer 1

Hi Guys
I managed to solve the last bit at least for the ENGLISH voice
1. -  As advised by harrytrotter you need to edit the CONFIG.XML file and change the string "_male" to "_female" and save it back to E:\cities\ENGLISH\CONFIG.XML.
 2. If you have a nokia 6210 with english language. Your speech files are contained in folder  called "english_male" i.e. at  E:\cities\ENGLISH\english_male What you need is a second folder of female speech called "english_female". I managed to find a copy of the female voice files at another forum.It is in a compacted rar archive called  "english_female.rar" - you will need the "unrar" program to extract it. Once you have downloaded the file to your computer, use the "File Manager" utility in the Nokia PC Suite to copy the folder back into the cities/english folder. i.e. when you are finished the folder location path should be E:\cities\ENGLISH\english_female
I just did it this evening and can confirm that my navigation is now done with an english female voice.
SOME OTHER PROBLEMS YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER 
NOKIA - Please fix this up as the Nokia Maps features are clunky and not very adaptable. I have also found some other problems with NOKIA MAPS.
1. I cannot put the gps co-ordinates of my favouratie surf spots (or any location) in the phone. If it doesn't have a street address - NOKIA maps cannot locate it. This is appalling as all other GPS devices do this and many modern maps locate features with GPS co-ordinates.
2. Some maps do not function well ( I don't know why?). I got the Nokia 6210 to navigate with Nokia maps  in Chile. However it often could not calculate a route. For instance 60kms up the highway from Pichilemu the navigator was unable to calculate the route - It was a straight line! It often took 15 minutes to calculate routes on the Chile map. In the end I gave up and navigated Chile the old fashioned way. The Australian map is OK - but  once again, when you get to Alice Springs (central Australia) major features like Kings Canyon are not searchable and of course the phone will not accept GPS co-ordinates.
So for these reasons, no voice choices, no ability to enter GPS co-ordinates,  unable to see whether the map is in phone memory or card memory (see other forum strings), poor navigation functions in some areas (remote australia and chile) I will probably buy Route 66 software for my 6210. That Route66 software on my old 6110 was fantastic and of course once I payed for a map - that was it whereas Nokia keeps taking an annual fee for their product.
Message Edited by shameers on 09-Aug-2009 08:46 PM