🔊 Want to ride without voice directions interrupting your flow? No problem! It only takes a few quick taps to mute them during active navigation.
Here's how:
- First start the navigation / trip recording: You need to be in active navigation mode.
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Tap the map once to display the control icons.
Note: While navigating, the screen controls (like the speaker icon) are automatically faded out. Just tap the map to bring them back. - Tap on the speaker icon on the side of the screen.
Once the speaker icon appears crossed out, voice notifications are muted. You won't hear any more instructions.
Reactivate voice notifications:
Would you like to switch the voice instructions back on?
➡️ Just tap the speaker icon again, and voice directions will be re-enabled right away.
Tip:
💡 Your voice settings are saved! So if you start a new ride and don’t hear any directions, even though you expected them, it’s probably because you muted them last time. Just give the screen a quick tap to bring up the controls, check the speaker icon on the left, and if it’s crossed out, tap it once to turn voice directions back on.
Comments
Voice commands.. Issue, once muted the command may not be heard but it cuts off your music during the ride when the command is said. Second, once you miss your turn and you drive a mile or so, i wish it would just recalibrate the ride and continue on. Having to drive and attempt to handle the situation is tedious. Better yet, having to pull off on the side of a busy road is worse. ONE MILE RULE, move on with the ride.. Recalculate..
Hey @Bass5559 - thanks for taking the time to share your feedback
Those are both valid suggestions. We can definitely see how having your music interrupted by muted voice prompts could be frustrating (I know this from my podcasts suddenly getting quieter with other apps as well), and your idea of automatically recalculating the route after you’ve clearly moved past a missed turn makes a lot of sense from both a convenience and safety perspective.
We’ll gladly add your feedback to our internal collection for the product team to consider as we continue improving the navigation experience.
Thanks again, and keep the rubber side down!
The voice is on regardless of the speaker is crossed out or not. Is this a bug on android? It's driving me knits listening to a podcast and constantly being interrupted.
Agree with wasserslask. The phone still ducks music like the voice is talking even if you do not hear it. My music stays ducked afterward and I have to reset my connection to get regular volume.
Hallo @wasserslask - thanks for letting us know (and very sorry for the delayed reply. Summer has been keeping us on our toes, and a few things have been a tad neglected)! That’s definitely not how the mute function should behave. I just tried to reproduce this on another Android device, and there the voice guidance remains muted as expected.
Could you check which audio output you’ve selected in calimoto under Profile > Settings > Audio > Audio output? If possible, please try switching this to “Music stream” and let me know whether the voice guidance is then correctly muted.
Since audio handling can differ quite a bit between Android devices and Bluetooth setups, this would help us narrow down what’s happening on your phone.
And @C_S- thanks for adding this. What you’re describing sounds slightly different, since the voice itself appears to be muted, but your phone is still lowering the volume of other audio as though a voice prompt were being played.
Could you also check the audio output setting in calimoto and try “Music stream”? I’d be interested to know whether your device still lowers the music volume with that setting when voice guidance is muted!
On two wheels, we trust.
I can confirm that the audio volume is lowered while using music stream.
Thanks for checking that @C_S!
Since the behaviour still occurs with “Music stream”, could you please try completely uninstalling and reinstalling calimoto once? That will rebuild the local app data and is worth ruling out before we dig deeper.
If the music volume is still lowered afterwards even though voice guidance is muted, please get in touch with us directly at support@calimoto.com and include:
* your smartphone model and Android version
* your installed calimoto version
* which audio output you’ve selected in calimoto
* whether you’re connected to a Bluetooth headset, external display, or another audio device
* whether the problem happens with every voice prompt and whether the music volume returns afterwards or stays loweredl.
Then we can take a closer look and pass the details on to our Android team if needed.
So i think me and @C_S are having slightly different problems, mine was that the voice was actually on, regardless of the state of the mute button. I tried to play around with different settings in Audio (Music, Phone etc.) without any success. I don't use the app supermuch (usually a week a year) but when you do and are riding solo and want to listening to a podcast, this is superannoying. Makes you wanna use google maps. I just want to let you know about this issue and hope you can solve it. I had an android samsung galaxy s23 ultra with the latest os-version. Also updated the app. Right now im not a premiumuser so can't test if the problem still exists.Â
Hey @wasserslask, thanks for clarifying! Yes, it sounds like you and @C_S are experiencing two slightly different issues. In your case, the voice guidance itself shouldn’t continue when you’ve muted it, and I wasn’t able to reproduce that behaviour on another Android device.
Since you’ve already tested the different audio output options, there’s one other Android setting worth checking next time. Voice guidance on Android uses the text to speech service and language packages installed on the phone. We’ve seen some rather unexpected voice issues caused by these packages before, so please make sure that your preferred language package is installed and up to date. Switching the text to speech voice or package can sometimes help as well.
If you’re back on the bike and the problem is still there, please feel free to contact us directly at support@calimoto.com with your device details and we’ll take a closer look.
And ideally, get in touch before purchasing Premium again. Just mention this Help Center conversation with Beth, and we’ll gladly activate Premium for a few days so you can test whether the issue is still occurring without having to purchase a subscription first. 🙂
Thanks again for taking the time to report it!
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