AndroidAuto: truncates BOTH TomTomGO and WAZE voice guidance messages

[Ted_Tom]

Though I’ve posted two threads(in the past few days, with respect to this anomaly, I felt the need to create still one more.

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The other day at the Toyota dealership here in San Diego, it was deduced TomTomGo was “failing” in its voice guidance, per my prior postings, e.g.: abbreviated/truncated voice messages.

WAZE was activated, and all seemed well, and I posted same.

Yes, I asserted: “all seemed well”.

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Yesterday, Saturday, I subjected WAZE to more rigorous testing and lo and behold, WAZE also suffers from voice guidance truncation, albeit to a lesser degree than TomTomGo.

Correct: strong assertion and not an opinion, as I had a passenger in the vehicle during testing and we BOTH could hear WAZE guidance was truncated/clipped/abbreviated.

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Examples:

• TomTomGo: In three-hundred feet make a left turn onto Genesee ……..
• WAZE: In three-hundred feet make a left turn onto Genesee St……..

and

• TomTomGo: Make a left onto Nobel Drive and then make a right onto Ju……..
• WAZE: Make a left onto Nobel Drive and then make a right onto Judicial D……..

Correct:

TomTomGo’s guidance loses about three to five syllables.

WAZE guidance loses one to two syllables.

Repeatable? YES!!

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As an IT person, with multiple years of experience, it is my assertion, the Android Auto APP REQUIRES additional “silent” characters at the end of the guidance messages it prcesses and announces.

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Again, for completeness, my radio is OFF, thus no extraneous noises.

Defaults are employed for both APPS.