tomtom with a jamician voice, anyone no more??

trinidadone

I am after a tomtom with a jamician voiceover. reasonable price, can anyone help?

Building_Surveyor

You can download loads of different voices with the software that uploads to your computer with the tomtom.

londonTiger

you can buy custom voices, but they're really naff and annoying after a while.

dacouch

You can record your own voices onto your computer and then upload them to your sat nav

Ultrasonic

Have you used a Sat Nav before? Interestingly lots of people find they prefer more obviously computerised voices to more natural sounding ones. I do. Psychologists have no doubt had lots to say on the subject.

(I had a quick look on the Tom Tom website but couldn't find a Jamaican one, but a wider search online may well turn one up.)

Norman_Castle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgNv6CFEofw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc0RtiUmk1o

http://discussions.tomtom.com/t5/ONE-START-40-50-Series-EASE-HOME/yardie-jamaican-voice-download-for-Tom-Tom-One/td-p/169591

dacouch

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Have you used a Sat Nav before? Interestingly lots of people find they prefer more obviously computerised voices to more natural sounding ones. I do. Psychologists have no doubt had lots to say on the subject.

(I had a quick look on the Tom Tom website but couldn't find a Jamaican one, but a wider search online may well turn one up.)

I can never work out why people actually use the voice as it winds me up. Most of the people I know mute the voice.

Ultrasonic

dacouch wrote: »

I can never work out why people actually use the voice as it winds me up. Most of the people I know mute the voice.

Surely it has to be safer to use the voice rather than constantly checking the screen?

Can't say I know of anyone who uses a satnav without voice commands.

scragend

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Surely it has to be safer to use the voice rather than constantly checking the screen?

Can't say I know of anyone who uses a satnav without voice commands.

I use mine without the voice commands.

I find the voice intensely irritating. It is also limited in terms of what it can say - "turn left", "bear left", "take the second exit" etc. At complicated junctions it can be found wanting.

You don't need to "constantly check" the screen. You only need to glance at it to see where it is pointing, and if the next turn is indicated as being a couple of miles away, you don't need to look again for a couple of miles.

Should cars have speedometers that read out your speed to you? Surely it has to be safer than constantly checking your speedometer?

dacouch

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Surely it has to be safer to use the voice rather than constantly checking the screen?

Can't say I know of anyone who uses a satnav without voice commands.

You don't need to keep looking at it though, when you get used to using it, you glance at it and it tells you how far the next turn is so you don't need to look at it until that distance has nearly expired.

If you drive around London a lot as I do, you tend to know most of the roads to a certain extent. I look into the details to find what route it suggests. The sat nav route is often slower due to it's choice of roads. So I then drive my route and then glance at the sat nav if I'm not familiar with part of the route or when I'm closing in on my destination

If you drive a lot the voice becomes very annoying and distracting.

I don't know of anyone who uses the sat nav with the voice on

Ultrasonic

I only use my satnav for unfamiliar routes and long journeys. I can certainly see the voice commands could be annoying at times when you know where you're going.

There have been odd occasions when the voice commands on my satnav have stopped seemingly of their own accord and I definitely missed them, but each to their own .