No Text to Speech capability on the Nuvi 880??? According to the chart above, the voice-controlled 880 does *not* provide the user with Text-to-Speech directions???
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The Garmin site specs says that it DOES have TTS. I'm assuming that Garmin's specs are right. Ordering one as soon as they're available.
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I just got the 3790T. I was driving and my wife activated the GPS from the passenger seat. You need to pronounce the phrase like the GPS does. When you input one, it will repeat it back toy ou. I think it works great. I chose "CAPTAIN KIRK" because it had a good 'voice' strength of 80 and the GPS seems to recognize it even when softly talking to it. I mentioned the word to my wife in a conversation and the GPS 'heard' it and switched to Voice Mode.
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I did the update, went smooth. Do you know is there is a comprehensive list of what was fixed/updated?I have some issues driving on a divided highway (Dale Mabry in Tampa) when you go by all the turn lanes between median, the gps tells you to "stay right ahead", every half mile or so, very annoying and not needed. I am already on the road I should be on. Any word on the volume, I have sebring convertible, with the top up it is noisier than the average car, really can't even hear the gps.
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Good to hear that those instructions worked out -- I should be able to figure out what is going on w/ the cut-off speech of the street names.Can you tell me if your TomTom is cutting off only some of the street names, or is this happening with all street names?
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AFAIK, all Garmin models allow you to use several different languages (including Cantonese, Mandarin Taiwan and Mandarin Chinese). Unfortunately, these aren't available in TTS (text-to-speech) mode. You can find these different languages under: Tools / Settings / Language / Voice.
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I wouldn't buy this product, but I'm looking for something! I have GPS on my Smartphone, and even though I put the highest setting on the speakerphone, I can't hear the directions! Is there another product that will send from the cell phone to my radio that works?? or another solution to boost the volume?
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It does nothing to the radio volume when directions are given, voice just talks over your music. I'm sure there settings to change this if wanted.
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Personally, it was clunky, the voice command sounds like it uses technology from a decade ago (think microsoft and siri). A smartphone's gps with google maps/waze is way better because the voice sounds more natural; plus, the map/traffic is more accurate and is updated real time. Your smartphone does not use that much data for maps.
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Yes! Siri and BT work well. Also, if you use Google maps, turn by turn directions also go through your speakers.
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Voice on my 255 nuvi went off.GPS works but silently..Is there a reset or is the unit broken? Voice temporarily returned, but it was in German!
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Sadly, there are no Nuvi models with an external volume control (this seems to be the trend with all major GPS manufacturers). However, most people set the software volume control once and forget it (far too cumbersome to change volume on the fly while driving).
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Yes! This unit does have voice command. 'With its innovative voice-activated navigation' . Once in command mode you can tell the unit to go to a waypoint or a town. Or, you can use voice command to find an an address, or view the history.
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Mine didnt voice dial initially. However, if you have an iphone and do the most recent software upgrade, you get a SIRI dial screen and you can use SIRI to do whatever SIRI doesAlso Im not sure who told you the 940 does it all, it was the low end model of the NAV series. Its does a ton of things, esp in regards to sound shaping and listening options, but the 7" and 8" Alpines NAV decks have more features (free traffic, ), but no voice dial, until the 2014 SIRI upgrade
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If you are thinking that this unit will respond to voice commands from you, this unit does not have that capability. This unit will only give YOU voice commands e.g. "turn right", "continue on route", "arriving at destination", etc.
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It is represented as working with digital signals only. I never tried it with voice signals. (Also it seldom worked with digital signals, either.)
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There is a little icon like a speaker. hit that and it gives you voice directions. you can adjust the voice level and mute it easily. Very nice gps
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Does the Garmin 250 or 200 come with Street name announcements, or just "right & left turn now?" Is the voice annoying? Henry