Automobile GPS: Street Names In Voice?

Just did a couple round-trips between Paoli PA (USA) and Camden
NJ using a borrowed Garmin Nuvi 265WT.

Didn't seem too bad in spite of totally losing it on the 76's Lee
Tire curve where it had the automobile icon in white space
between roads and was telling me to make a U-turn. I'm guessing
that was something to do with a major television transmitting
antenna farm just across the river.

But it definitely presented problems with multiple possible
turnoffs that were, say, 50 feet from each other.

"Bear Right"..... OK... *WHICH* right? First trip, exiting
into beautiful downtown Camden, I blew it completely although
"Re-Routing..." bailed me out in the end.

Second trip, I ignored the "Bear Right" and went a mile or so up
the road, wherein it took me off at another exit that was much
closer to my destination.

Bottom Line: If this thing would say something like "Bear right
on Walnut Street" it would help a *lot*. Seems like it's got
to know the street names bc at least some of them appear on the
map.

Am I missing some setup parm that tells it how verbose to be?

If not, can anybody suggest a unit that includes street
names/exit ramp descriptions in the voice prompts?
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PeteCresswell

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:53:45 -0500, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

Street name text to speech depends on what *voice* is being used. The
265WT should be able to do it, but you need to pick a voice that
supports it.


https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134 and check "Speaks street
name" on the left.

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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:59:58 -0600, "Peter H. Coffin"


The 265WT already speaks street names but that isn't what the OP is
referring to. What the OP is looking for would be a unit that has lane
assist and tells you exactly which lane you need to be in. The 265WT
tells you to exit at the street name/exit number or to turn at the
street name but it doesn't tell you which street to bear to when you
need to bear left/right and when you are on an interstate with a lot
of close interchanges and exits that info is really useful.

Per who asked:

The one I tried out did not even to that.

Just found out that was, indeed, a setup issue.

Reset to defaults, and it speaks street names.

That helps a *lot* - making it, IMHO, 100% usable once one gets
in the vicinity of the destination. If the same setup also
causes it to speak exit numbers, that would help too.

"Lane Assist" sounds promising - although the WT265 did, indeed
offer up "Bear Right" and "Bear Left" - albeit at the same time.
Looking back on those situations, they were logical. Maybe one
just has to get used to it a little more.
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PeteCresswell

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:09:52 -0600, who asked wrote:

Fascinating. The 785WT *does* do this, at least specifying "Take exit
1E, on left", or "Keep right onto east Main Street." Or is this also not
what you're talking about?

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