Navigation needs to learn how to pronounce

[modified]

Argghhh.

Is it me or does the female voice on the navigation annoying when she says "RYE" instead of "RIGHT."

"Make a RYE on route 1."

Everything else is great

 

[stdesign]

Hmmm... I haven't noticed this. I only just tried my turn-by-turn navigation a couple of days ago, and I think it rocks :icon_ banana:. Now I've gotta get a car cradle, so I can use the nav in a safer way .

 

[KZIWarrior]

Maybe your nav girl is from da hood?:icon_ devil:

 

[garrett]

it screws up a bunch of the street names by me... im in miami and the surrounding areas all the time and it has a hard time with all the spanish names.


the rest of the time im in tarpon springs which is infested with greek's and it has a hard time with the greek names too.


still completely satisfied with it.

 

[lschicky]

hahaha, all the GPS navigation I've ever had has botched things. I was quite enjoying it the other day when it was driving my parents nuts.

 

[lschicky]

though that reminds me, is there any way to change the voice? Perhaps do custom voices?

I always wanted the one bob dylan did for one of the GPS units....

 

[garrett]

though that reminds me, is there any way to change the voice? Perhaps do custom voices?

I always wanted the one bob dylan did for one of the GPS units....

i wished but no you cant change it.

 

[jsh1120]

it screws up a bunch of the street names by me... im in miami and the surrounding areas all the time and it has a hard time with all the spanish names.


the rest of the time im in tarpon springs which is infested with greek's and it has a hard time with the greek names too.


still completely satisfied with it.

Her familiarity with the Native American names around Seattle is, ahem, limited to say the least.

 

[takeshi]

though that reminds me, is there any way to change the voice? Perhaps do custom voices?

I always wanted the one bob dylan did for one of the GPS units....

Not really with the TTS approach used in Google Nav. It would be possible if you had a GPS app that actually used sound clips.

 

[Sleeve]

My Garmin nuvi has a major problem with numbered roads. It says 426 fort wendy six, among other amusing quirks. My wife's built-in nav in her car has a strong accent, so bad that we mimic it.

I expect to see more features in Navigation when it is no longer a beta. Now that the fruit phone will be getting someone else's navigation, that's great news for us because now Google can't sit around on a halfcrap nav app if they want people moving to their kool-aid.

To me the nav in Android is good enough to no longer pay Garmin. Sure, it botches proper names and it says a few basic words oddly, but it converges one more thing into a single gizmo and that works for me.

 

[mitchb2]

I think it's pretty funny, but only when you already know what she's talking about.

My Garmin pronounces every street that is a "Drive" as doctor.
"Now approaching Oak Hill Doctor."

 

[mossostdrauka]

yeah i've noticed it a few times too... it always cracks me up so far. I'm sure that if i couldnt see the screen it might annoy me but all my GPS's have done this. i sometimes take a road with a crazy name just to hear it try to pronounce it!

 

[Cowpoke]

I was heading south the other day and the phone said "Take exit 42b to Lawton A Mary Low."

I was like, what the **** is "A Mary Low"?

When I got to the exit it said Lawton OK/Amarillo TX

 

[jigsawkilr]

OK, at least you guys have a working GPS...lol Mine can never find a signal. Every time I try to use it, it says searching for GPS but never finds it. I was outside on a major interstate near Charlotte NC. Could not find signal. It is the only gripe I have with this device.

 

[SinCitySRT4]

at first it was weird for me to but after awhile i got used to it. still pretty funny though