Add text to speech to a Garmin C510/530 GPS

posted Mar 24th 2007 3:49pm by
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[josh] pointed out this hack for Garmin C510 and C530 GPS units. The newer C550 and C580′s feature text to speech directions. [Phil Hornby] put together a walk through that will add this valuable feature to the older units. He took advantage of the firmware similarities of the various Garmin units and got it working. The hack requires some compromises due to memory constraints, but it’s pretty straight forward.

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8 Responses to Add text to speech to a Garmin C510/530 GPS

  • danadamkof says:
    March 24, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    My favorite type of hack, using software to make a device more like an expensive/newer model :).

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  • Meghan says:
    March 26, 2007 at 6:36 am

    May be due to their dislike.

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  • Stan says:
    March 27, 2007 at 12:33 am

    Awesome! I just bought the C530 the day before for $298 including shipping at Buydig. Lack of TTS was my only gripe and now I’ve got no reason to be sad :)
    http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=18&threadid=715813

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  • meir says:
    March 29, 2007 at 3:40 am

    Anyone try this on the c330 with the c340 firmware?

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  • Claudio says:
    March 29, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    Take care not to update the firmware of your C510 / C530: the new version (released today, 29.3.07) will disable this hack.

    Best regards
    Claudio

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  • meir says:
    April 1, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    I tried it on my c330 and it didn’t work. I lost all voice prompts and had to not only reinstall the c330 ones but reflash my firmware.

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  • meena says:
    June 25, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    garmin nuvi 265wt rocks!

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  • Garmin 255w GPS says:
    December 20, 2009 at 6:31 am

    I feel so good when I read helpful articles like this on the internet.

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