Showed a friend and potential Nuvi buyer our 350, he asked the following
question

"So how do you suppose the voice track gets activated. It has to be
totally automated, as there is NO way directions to Everywhere USA can
be pre-recorded. I can see plotting directions on a detailed map from
the starting point to the stopping point. But danged if I can visualize a
program that gives intermediate spoken directions. How'd they do that ???"

Well I replied -- Beats Me -- so both of us would like to know.

Any URL's explain it

Thanks
CL

On Feb 23, 3:38 pm, "Caveat Lector" <C...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Showed a friend and potential Nuvi buyer our 350, he asked the following
> question
>
> "So how do you suppose the voice track gets activated. It has to be
> totally automated, as there is NO way directions to Everywhere USA can
> be pre-recorded. I can see plotting directions on a detailed map from
> the starting point to the stopping point. But danged if I can visualize a
> program that gives intermediate spoken directions. How'd they do that ???"
>
> Well I replied -- Beats Me -- so both of us would like to know.
>
> Any URL's explain it
>
> Thanks
> CL

I can't offer any details, but text-to -speech software has been
around for years.
If you have tried a variety of the available voices, you will notice
that many of them, at least all the english language ones, sound
pretty much the same except for the accent.

The software is given rules to follow to sound out various letter
combinations.
In most cases, it works fine, but I have found a few street names that
it can't pronounce correctly.

If you are running a recent version of Windows on your PC, go to
Control Panel, then Speech, then Text-to-Speech. Select a voice then
click the Preview Voice button.


Brian

Thanks Brian -- that explains it very nicely.

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> On Feb 23, 3:38 pm, "Caveat Lector" <C...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> Showed a friend and potential Nuvi buyer our 350, he asked the following
>> question
>>
>> "So how do you suppose the voice track gets activated. It has to be
>> totally automated, as there is NO way directions to Everywhere USA can
>> be pre-recorded. I can see plotting directions on a detailed map from
>> the starting point to the stopping point. But danged if I can visualize a
>> program that gives intermediate spoken directions. How'd they do that
>> ???"
>>
>> Well I replied -- Beats Me -- so both of us would like to know.
>>
>> Any URL's explain it
>>
>> Thanks
>> CL
>
> I can't offer any details, but text-to -speech software has been
> around for years.
> If you have tried a variety of the available voices, you will notice
> that many of them, at least all the english language ones, sound
> pretty much the same except for the accent.
>
> The software is given rules to follow to sound out various letter
> combinations.
> In most cases, it works fine, but I have found a few street names that
> it can't pronounce correctly.
>
> If you are running a recent version of Windows on your PC, go to
> Control Panel, then Speech, then Text-to-Speech. Select a voice then
> click the Preview Voice button.
>
>
> Brian
>