Hmm, that I don't understand. How can a recorded voice do street names, there has to be a bazillion different street names in the U.S.
They can't. That's the point. TomTom units come in two flavors:
1. Those that support computer voices. Those voices are capable of providing not only directional information, but pronouncing street and place names as well when a computer voice has been selected. These same TomTom units will also use the recorded voices if you choose to load one and select that instead of a computer voice, but all you'll get is the directional information.
2. Those that support only recorded voices. Directional information only. No spoken street or place names.
So if you bought a current TomTom that supports TTS, you could, if you chose to do so, just use one of the old recorded voices and just get the old directional information to which you have become accustomed.