SR = State Road, Sr = Senior? on Nuvi 770

Yeap, and many other mistakes. For instance, I used to use CO for Central Office and it would say Colorado. DR would be doctor. Do a search and I am sure that you will find other mistakes in the way it speaks abbreviations.

Yep. Either select a different voice. Or just be entertained by it.

In other discussions about this, it was seen that different voices pronounce the abbreviations differently. Jill has always said DR as Drive for me, unless it was followed by a period, I think. But I think the British voice ?Emily? did not make all the same mistakes but made others.

My latest mispronunciation was when routing to a car wash and Jill said, "Arriving at Fuller's Car Washington - on right".

Aussie Karen calls Des Moines' 'George M Mills Civic Parkyway' "George the 1000th Mills Civic Parkway"...I find it rather amusing...

I stayed at Ramada Inn on this last trip and Jill said: Arriving at TRUMADA INN ON RIGHT. I found she tends to pronounce the last letter of the previous word with the following one.

I think I'll stick with Jill, she and I have come to an understanding...

I think I'll stick with no TTS. The more complicated the machine, the more likely the errors.

I've found that they all have their idiosyncrasies. I just know that sometimes they will make one of those mistakes and accept it as the price of a still developing technology.

I am glad I got the 200 without TTS. All this talk about Doctor and Senior has convinced me.

Can you turn the TTS off on these units and still have the other voice prompts on routes?

Certainly. Just choose one of the non-TTS voices. BTW, I wouldn't own one without TTS -- it is a big advantage.

I have a magellan meridan color and all it dose it beep when the next turn comes up I like the garmin with the sound and talk as it makes it easier when your looking for a street while driving. I also notice wrong street names but laugh about it. cheap entertaiment.

Jill says for state road....... stage road and i giggle everytime she screws up a name.

I don't get it. So it gives the street name for a turn. If you need it, you can read it on the GPS. Even if you don't read it, the end result is that you make the same turn anyway. So it names your destination when you get there, rather then just using the word "destination". Do you not know what your destination is?

Someone somewhere recommended Karen's voice for folks in Arizona as her pronunciations handle the Hispanic and Native American place names better than Jill does.

I switched and enjoy listening to Karen tell me where to go...

I wonder, though, if we have any Aussies here that can answer a question. Karen's pronunciation of "Boulevard" is as interesting as hearing a Canadian say "about" (in spite of the fact that Canadians deny having any 'aboot' inflection when they say that word). So the question for the Aussie-knowledgeable is: Is Karen's pronunciation of boulevard 'proper Aussie talk' or is it just an artifact of the software's Text To Voice engine?

The other day, on a trip from Greenwood, SC to Chicago, IL my sp7200 told me that my next turn was in 24,901 miles! I have to go around the world before my next turn?!!!! I thought it was amuzing.

And with the price of diesel fuel that would be a bummer !

With TTS I am able to keep my eye on the road (especially in an unfamiliar area) and look for traffic patterns and street names. Although sometimes I still have to look at the gpsr to understand the street that I am suppose to turn on.

I should have added that I always look at the GPS well before the turn just to know what the next turn is. I'm not sure that TTS tells you the street name well before, like 3 miles before, the next turn, does it? My GPS is close to eye level and I can still see traffic when glancing at it.

I've often wondered about the advantages of TTS. I use a Garmin 76CSx. I bought it originally for geocaching but I added maps and have used it quite a bit for autorouting - both for getting to geocaches and for long distance trips. I've never missed the voice telling me where to go. The beeps and trills I have set for indicators seem to work nicely and I have a mount that puts it in easy hand/eye range while driving.

However, should I ever buy a dedicated automobile unit, I will probably get one that at least speaks and will likely be tempted into getting one that does TTS. It's geeky enough to grab my interest.

I guess this trip would be a financial loss if I took the long way around! The screen said next turn in 112 miles, but the speech said 24,901. I'll go with the text. It's shorter.

Besides, fuel would cost (if my calculations are correct) $12.915.32. Yep, definately a financial loss.

To me TTS makes a world of difference. Without it, the unit may say "Turn right in 300 feet" and then it will say "Turn right" when you are at the street. But with TTS it says "Turn right on Main Street". This can be very important when streets are close together and it provides a verification that you are in fact turning on the correct street. Comes into play especially on the bike so that I don't have to look down at the map screen if I am concentrating on the road. YMMV

Couldn't live without TTS. Even my Honda has it (should for what it cost!!). The first GPS that I kept (went through 4 before settling on it) was a Nuvi 350, and the main reason I liked it was for TTS. I use "Jack" because his voice is much more receptive to my hearing level, and I find that, almost without exception, he is right on with his pronounciation.

Joel

Display showed "I-494 West to Exit 7A - MN SR-100"

Really liked that it had both the exit number and the name of the highway I was to turn on.

But she called the last part "Minnesota State Route One Zero Zero". Never heard her pronounce the individual digits like that before.

As for the poster who was put off by us all discussing the very rare mispronunciations: I will NEVER own a non-TTS model, even if it never gets better than what we have now. The difference in functionality is night and day. And the occasional mispronunciations are fairly rare.

Recently while traveling thru Washington state, I needed to take WA 240 N. Karen said Take Western Australia 240 North. Cracked me up.

I found info on another board advising to dl a program called Hexedit that can open up the .VPM file. I did this to successfully make it pronounce DR as Drive rather than Doctor. But I am having no luck changing ST from Saint to Street. Anyone else done this?