GPS S/w reads out street name

[tmsani]

Is there a GPS software which reads out the street name rather than just
telling you turn left,turn right I have to look at the screen to see which
street I need to turn

[tmsani]

Looks like Tomtomone(4th Gen) will do Text to Speech.Anyone got the PDA version?

[covert]

There is no tomtomone version for a PDA. Only Tomtom

[grw46]

Igo8 ,destinator, mio 3.3, navman, gamin plus a few others will all give you the street name.
Just how clearly is another subject

[tmsani]

Igo8 ,destinator, mio 3.3, navman, gamin plus a few others will all give you the street name.
Just how clearly is another subject

Are you sure Igo8 can do text to speech?

[Twoshots]

Is there a GPS software which reads out the street name rather than just
telling you turn left,turn right I have to look at the screen to see which
street I need to turn

Copilot live will call out street names for ya

[hoe]

Are you sure Igo8 can do text to speech?

yes, works just fine.....

[Chimp]

garmin does it definately

[kingie05]

Yep, iGO8 is the go, works great.

[doda]

I have iGO8, how do you get it to say street names. Does this work on the PDA version ?

[intelliGEORGE]

Just bought a TomTom XL tonight, reads out street names and warnings. Only problem is it only works with the TomTom computer voices i.e. US male and female voices no other language or dialect of English.

[hoe]

I have iGO8, how do you get it to say street names. Does this work on the PDA version ?

you need the tts voices and associated files....

they have been posted in the gps section.

[Jungery]

you need the tts voices and associated files....

they have been posted in the gps section.

Can not find then or the link is down... Can you assist ?

[hoe]

tts files for igo8 here, includes readme file with instructions......



password for rar file is austech.info

btw comp_dad, no need to ask the same thing in multiple threads....

[Jungery]

tts files for igo8 here, includes readme file with instructions......



password for rar file is austech.info

btw comp_dad, no need to ask the same thing in multiple threads....

Thanks and point taken..

[Jungery]

Have followed the instructions and plain voice works OK... TTS just gives a beep / tone..
iGO8 8.0.0.44366 Map Sensis 071017

SD card has a iGO8 folder with the tts_loq folder under it and .dll's in the iGO8 folder

Do you have any suggestions ?

[hoe]

I suggest you read the 'readme.txt' file again...

[Jungery]

I suggest you read the 'readme.txt' file again...

In other advice in TTS files that I found, was (download the Loquendo TTS voices to use the iGO8 dir as the nominated root) which I have done and tried, and it did not work. Tone only for tts voices.

In addition the iGO8 sys file states: [folders]
app="%SDCARD%/iGO8"
;app="Internal Storage/iGO8"

So I then tried your files, and as per your txt file...

tts_loq folder and .dll files go in root of sd card.

voice folder goes in sd card/content folder.

Hoe

SD card is as follows, as set up by default from all iGO8 installs (sub = subdirectories);

<SD root>
2577
iGO8 (sub)
Program files (sub)
Other (sub)

<iGO8>
Content (sub)
Defaults
licence
tts_loq (sub)

I then followed the instructions provided by you, and placed tts_loq folder and .dll files go in root of sd card.

Thus

<SD root>
*.dll's
2577
iGO8 (sub)
Program files (sub)
Other (sub)
tts_loq (sub)

Can you please explain where I did not follow you instructions and what I should now do?

As, I still only get a tone when selecting the Voice identified as tts capable...

I look forward to hearing your suggestion.

[roguefan99]

Only problem I have with Igo8 is the fact that when it reads a street name it will say the A8 or some designation of that rather than the actual street name. Its a bit of a pain with that, and something I prefer MioMap with.

I've been trying to work out how to adjust it.

[Jungery]

Only problem I have with Igo8 is the fact that when it reads a street name it will say the A8 or some designation of that rather than the actual street name. Its a bit of a pain with that, and something I prefer MioMap with.

I've been trying to work out how to adjust it.

So what is you file structure / install method?

Never had any of these problems with Designator, TomTom or Mio... For some reason, getting iGO8 installed cleanly and being able to manage POI and trafic warnings is not so clean cut, let alone TTS.