I've had a lot of fun making custom Bluetooth equipment for people. I've given a few old boomboxes new life and done some fun projects like turning old walkmans and packs of cigarettes into speakers.

Sometimes I can repurpose boards from discarded electronics, but the ones I've bought online always have some crappy English voice that says unnecessary phrases like "your device is connected" and "no devices connected" and "power off".

Frankly people have complained to me about the shitty digitized Chinese person speaking English every time they power on, and it bothers me too. And the thing is it's going to be playing at whatever volume setting the device was last at, which is often quite loud.

So does anybody have any experience here? I've had cheap ones from China that work great technically, but I can't deal with this voice anymore LOL

Are you aware of one with just harmony tones or chimes or something?