Voice guidance option.

[meyverick]

🚀 feature request

Description

Hello,

I am an OsmAnd user and I appreciate the navigation and mapping features offered by the application. However, I find that the voice navigation system lacks customization. I would like to have the option to disable voice guidance for turn instructions, while keeping the hazard alerts.

Currently, disabling the Voice Prompt option disables everything, including hazard warnings. So I propose to add an option in the application settings to enable or disable voice guidance for turn instructions, while keeping hazard alerts.

I think this option would be useful for many users who want to customize their navigation experience.

Best regards, Meyverick

Describe the solution you'd like

• Keep Voice Prompt option as it is (disabling everything).
• Add an option Voice Guidance that toggle voice guidance for turn, ...

Describe alternatives you've considered

Using external app like CamSam.

[mikehgentry]

I think there's a workaround for this (I'm not in a position to test at the minute).

If you start a navigation, then let it finish (so literally just 100m down the road), I believe it kicks the voice engine into action, and from then on it'll give you alerts. Presumably until you close the 'You have arrived at your destination' dialogue, or possibly until you close OsmAnd.

Not a neat solution by any stretch, but if it works it's a stopgap.

[sonora]

Yes, exactly: No real solution, but 2 possible workarounds:

• If you need no navigation at all, and your intent is only to get hazard alert prompts, it's exactly like @mikehgentry explains: Start a navigation, stop it again (no need to even move), that will initialize the voice engine on your phone. Then while subsequently moving around with OsmAnd in the foreground (and until you kill the app and restart it), it would announce the vicinity of hazards. (Albeit a little less precise than during a navigation, because OsmAnd does not know your intended itinerary, so occasionally you may hear a prompt for a hazard in the vicinity but off to one side and not actually on your path).
  • If you need a solution during a navigation, you can try one of the "beep only" voices. They have variable chattiness, and will not speak anything, but the occasional beep can make you aware of something upcoming (could be a hazard or a turn, though, you would need to glance at the screen to tell).

[ossilator]

sounds a lot like #13373.

[sonora]

@meyverick Upon re-reading your original issue it strikes me that perhaps you are not aware that you cannot just turn the voice guidance on or off entirely (by tapping the 'switch' icon on the menu item), but also (by tapping on the voice guidance menu text itself in the profile's Navigation settings), you can turn on/off a lot of individual options. (albeit not the turn instrutions themselves, I think, but e.g. associated street names etc.)