Abbreviations that work with nuvi TTS voices

Thanks for pointing that out

Thanks for the tip.

This is good information to keep in mind when building POI's in the future

Sorry to be so dense, but how would this help in building a POI?

Unfortunately, Karen often says "coe, ninety-three" instead of "Colorado ninety-three."

Come to think of it, she used to pronounce WA-14 as Western Australia instead of Washington.

I should try Jill if I could stand her voice.

Try this for a POI name:

-67.834062, 46.141129, REST AREA HOULTON ME:I-95 SB @MM305

or:

-86.936692, 34.781691, Cracker Barrel :Athens AL

I use Jill (with a few modifications...) I tried Karen, but while the voice is nice, I can't deal with the different pronunciations. For example, a nearby main road is "Route 106" - everyone, including Jill, refers to it as "route one-oh-six". When I gave Karen a try, she called it "Art Tee One hundred and six". That would just drive me crazy - and I can find crazy all on my own, with the help of my GPS, thank you very much.

Now if I can only remember which abbreviation I used when I go searching for that POI from way back when . . .

Excellent. I am not sure if I can get Emily to say Drive....rather than Doctor, but I will give it a go

I have to give this a try. I wondered if there was a way to get the voices to say more, with the limited amount of space available to enter comments , but never really looked into it. Thanks

I never realized that the different voices had different pronunciations. I just picked Australian English Lee b/c he sounded nice. Has anyone checked out who has the best pronunciations for US locations.

I am still unclear how this applies to POIs. To alert to a POI that I have loaded, I use a Sound file (mp3 or wav). Spoken voices are not involved, are they?

If you route to a custom POI location and your unit has Text-To-Speech, it will say the destination POI Name.

When my 765T ets back from my daughter's vacation, I will do some simulations.

Thanks for the link. This will help in making POI's in the future.

REALLY GOOD information!!! Thanks for the links
Will use to update my Garmin.

Virgo53

Thanks for the link.

This will be very useful. Thanks.

You can use TTS_Speech_Doctor to correct the abbreviation to say Drive instead of Doctor. This onew has been fixed long ago.

Below is the list of abbreviations fixed by TTS_Speech_Doctor:

•Change "St" to "Street" instead of "Saint"
•Change "FM" to "Farm Road" instead of "F-M"
•Change "Dr" to "Drive" instead of "Doctor"
•Change "SR" to "State Road" instead of "Stage Road" (Jack & Jill & Samantha only)
•Change "Br" to "Business Route" instead of "Branch" (Jack & Jill & Samantha only)
•Change "Cl" to "Clinic" instead of "Close" (Karen & Lee only)
•Change "O" to "West" instead of "Oest" (Julie & Felix only)
•Change "Boul." to "Boulevard" instead of "Boul+pause" (Julie & Felix only)
•Change "HwY" to "Highway" instead of "H-W-Y" (Daniel & Emily only)
•Change "AuT" to "Highway" instead of "A-U-T" (Daniel & Emily only, French countries)
•Change "O" to "West" instead of "O" (Daniel & Emily only, French countries)
•Change "Boul." to "Boulevard" instead of "Boul+pause" (Daniel & Emily only, French countries)
•Change "Hov" to "H-O-V" instead of "Hove" (Jack & Jill & Samantha only)
•Change "WA" to "Washington" instead of "W-A" (Karen & Lee only)
•Change "Ct" and "Ct-" to "Connecticut" instead of "C-T" or "Court" (Jack & Jill & Samantha only)
•Change "RM" to "Ranch Road" instead of "R-M"
•Change "La" to "La" instead of "Lane" (All English voices)
•Change "Eisenhower" to "I-zenhower" instead of "Eesenhower" (Karen & Lee only)
•Change "Expwy" to "Expressway" (All English voices)
•Change "Tr" to "Trail" instead of "Track" (All English voices)

Download here: http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/TTS_Speech_Doctor

Thanks

I kind of agree with you. This abbreviation list is not very useful for POIs. I have been playing with them since 2008. I made TTS_Speech_Doctor and Doctor_Pro to help correct pronounciation errors, but never for POIs. Even their usage in a POI name that will be spoken at destination is not a major enhancement. To my knowledge, those abbreviations are intended for navigation and texting.