tomtom with a jamician voice, anyone no more??

Ultrasonic

scragend wrote: »

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.

The advantage of voice commands is that rather than having to judge when you've travelled two miles, it will tell you, reducing the chance of misjudging when you've travelled a further two miles and missing the turn. As far as the commands being limited, I use the map as well, with the voice command being a trigger to look at the map at appropriate moments. I wouldn't want to drive with just voice commands, although I know some people do.

RichardD1970

Ultrasonic wrote: »

The advantage of voice commands is that rather than having to judge when you've travelled two miles, it will tell you, reducing the chance of misjudging when you've travelled a further two miles and missing the turn. As far as the commands being limited, I use the map as well, with the voice command being a trigger to look at the map at appropriate moments. I wouldn't want to drive with just voice commands, although I know some people do.

This. That's how I use mine.

Iceweasel

Ultrasonic wrote: »

The advantage of voice commands is that rather than having to judge when you've travelled two miles, it will tell you, reducing the chance of misjudging when you've travelled a further two miles and missing the turn. As far as the commands being limited, I use the map as well, with the voice command being a trigger to look at the map at appropriate moments. I wouldn't want to drive with just voice commands, although I know some people do.

That's how I use mine too - with the voice commands muted, I doubt if I would be aware in time of any diversions from the originally calculated route due to accidents, emergency road-closures etc.

As for the voices available on Garmin - my wife cannot understand the 'British' English accents of both the males and females used.

The American voices use a different vocabulary for some junctions which defies instant translation /understanding - "Yield at the traffic circle then take a half left at the next intersection."

So we have a charming Australian young lady (called Karen apparently) who accompanies us on our journeys, and is understood by all of us.

The novelty of having Yoda, - or worse, Chef Ramsey as they call him in the US calling out the junctions would soon wear off.

londonTiger

dacouch wrote: »

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

Gosh, someone must really love the sound of their own voice [literally] to go through the trouble of doing this.

molerat

Jamaican Yardie voice is downloadable free via TomTom Home.

Quiet_Spark

As above, search for "Yardie" under TomTom voices.

ali-t

I have Irish Sean on my tom tom, it was the least annoying of all the preset voices and I'm least likely to shout at him "I !!!!ing heard you"

Joe_Horner

What is this satnav thing?

Plan a route on Google maps, a few notes of road numbers on signs, and "walk" through any less obvious places on streetview to check for landmarks (eg: there's a Tesco / church / whatever just before the turning.

Then when you drive it, use the (generally excellent) road signs and your memory

facade

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Then when you drive it, use the (generally excellent) road signs

I take it that you haven't driven much in the West Midlands

Our speciality is direction information written on the road underneath the other cars so you can't ever see it except at 6AM on a Sunday in Summer.

I like my Satnav voice.

I used to love my MG Montego
"All monitored systems are working correctly" - so comforting :cool:

Radsteral

the first thing I do as I set up the navigator is to silent it.. cant bear any voice let alone a Jamaican one