XL340s Pronunciation issues and the word "Road" - Page 2 - TomTomForums.com

leggy · 12-23-2009, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sitcomchap

I was really bothered by my TomTom's street pronunciation. (My previous garmin was much much better.) But now it got worse....

I was riding home today, heading into Los Angeles. And the TomTom announced that I was heading to Los Ahn-Hell-Ace. Not Los Anne-Jell-es. But Los Ahn-Hell-Ace. I thought, have I chosen a voice with a spanish pronunciation? But I was using "Dave". My kids started laughing. They thought it was some kind of joke.

I don't get it. It is bad enough that I have to hear my street mispronounced everytime I come home. Now, if I drive out of L.A. and return, I hear the city mispronounced too.

I bought this from Target, which has a 90 day return policy. I am going to play with it a little more, but I think this baby is headed back to the store.

If voice is your first concern then get Garmin, if routing is your first concern then stay with TT

Towerblock · 12-31-2009, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by leggy

If voice is your first concern then get Garmin, if routing is your first concern then stay with TT

Totally agree. I bought the Garmin 255WT and a TT 335S and 340S and the Garmin pronounces street names more intelligibly. The Garmin has a couple of other more serious issues though..it will often wait till the last second to tell you to turn on a street making for some serious last minute lane crossing! Not very safe. The TT's give me plenty of warning regarding turn lanes etc. I DO wish they could pronounce street names more correctly though.

The Garmin says the names better, but the voice is more like a robot and the sound files are very compressed making for a very scratchy low fi sounding voice..

misterbk · 01-11-2010, 06:49 PM

There's no excuse for the text to speech being so far off.

I run a linux box at home and its ancient free open-source TTS perfectly pronounces everything that the TomTom cannot.

I live in California and I have yet to encounter a road whose name I can deduce from the garbled mess this thing spits out.

If a GPS cannot read directions, what use is it? I really may have to return this thing.

**mvl** · 01-11-2010, 10:10 PM

Did you update to the 9.x application? Europeans say that the TTS is slower and more understandable on the GO x50, I'm not sure if the 9.x application update to the 140 or 340 does the same thing.

**mvl** · 01-15-2010, 07:06 PM

misterbk, to not confuse others who are inquiring about the 340S and it's different application and issues, I moved your posts regarding the Tomtom 740 to your other thread here.

misterbk · 01-16-2010, 02:24 AM

Yes, sorry, I had not yet figured out the model numbers and their potential differences. (Still haven't really...)

My posts were in reference to the Tomtom Go 740 Live.