Help! No spoken street names on TomTom XL 340 S: Can anyone help?
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I have the older model TomTom XL-S and know that ONLY the computerized female or male voices will actually speak the street names. All other voices included with the GPS are "real" voices and therefore cannot speak the actual street names, just the generic type directions as you mentioned. I don't know if your newer model TomTom is the same, but it sounds to me like it might be. Hope this helped!
1342416
Make sure you have the tollways option selected and if that doesn't do it then try updating maps again. Good luck.
1663212
It doesn't announce street names, there are several voice choices but with each option it states directions only, no street names
417943
Text to speech is the ability to announce the street names. Like "turn left at elm street", instead of "turn left in .1 miles".I had a 360 which went bad after a couple years, the built-in antenna became defective. A known issue with that series. Was able to fix it by adding a cheap external antenna. I know this is a very late post, but both the 300 series and units like the 250W are very obsolete. Should be looking at units like the 255W or 265W, or 1300 or 1400 series at this point.
603097
I have used one, and it does NOT announce streets by name. The description is quite wrong.
1402837
Yep, I just replied to your latest comment on your review. Although I find the lack of detailed street names annoying if not ridiculous, I'm not quite to the point to where I would abandon Garmin all together. Quite a few of their units, like my much older Quest, do show street names. By the way, if you want to check out an excellent site for downloading POIs, icons, sounds, etc go to: http://www.poi-factory.com
1342418
Make sure you have the tollways option selected and if that doesn't do it then try updating maps again.Good luck.
1655924
Use settings | Locale. Several of the voices are marked "TTS". Those, and only those, speak street names.The unit comes from the factory with the voice set to "Jill". None of them sounds really pleasant -- the speakers are not great -- but all the TTS voices seem reasonably understandable.-dk
181106
I read that if you have this problem with no street names spoken, the fix is to do a factory reset on your unit and that will correct this problem. Worth a try!
1036885
You must choose a computer voice, e.g. Susan, in order for it to speak street names. It should be somewhere in the preference settings.
1814285
Use settings | Locale. Several of the voices are marked "TTS". Those, and only those, speak street names. The unit comes from the factory with the voice set to "Jill". None of them sounds really pleasant -- the speakers are not great -- but all the TTS voices seem reasonably understandable. -dk
1081033
Call TomTom customer service & ask them to activate/update your Lifetime Map service. Then connect your GPS to your computer
1707324
No, it's probably not defective... 1) Voice with Text-To-Speech (TTS): under Settings, go to Language, then click a choice for Voice -- make sure it's someone with English (e.g. American English-Jack) who also has the "(TTS)" tag. This will enable speech with street names. 2) Exchange rates: you should update the rates manually. I suspect the exchange rates weren't a big priority for the Garmin folks. For more help with questions, the GPS itself has a Help button (next to Settings) that should answer some basic issues. Hope this is helpful.
889539
You should make sure that the voice that you have selected has the letters (TTS) after it. If not, then no street names will be pronounced.Tools>Settings>Language>Voice
972405
in most cases it all depends on the voice settings of the GPS. Only certains voices will say the street names. Check the voice settings
1165656
Go to tomtom home and do a backup first. Then remove all voices except the computer one. That the one that speaks street names. Then go to update my device and update the software first. Then update the maps. Then you will be fine. Follow these steps and you will have no problems.
181109
yes the spoken street names are available only with certain voices - the ones labeled computer