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Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:00am

are the fm traffic receivers designed to give audable info or are the notifications only given visualy on the screen? thankyou

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Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:14am

nope

sedagonda wrote:

are the fm traffic receivers designed to give audable info or are the notifications only given visualy on the screen? thankyou

No audio I'm aware of. It's a display of live data it receives and no ability to translate that into audio.

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Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:16am

thanks for the info on the

thanks for the info on the traffic receivers just display info no audio.

Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:21pm

There IS audio

Most of the time, if I get a red traffic symbol, the GPS will announce "traffic ahead".

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Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:18pm

Traffic receiver sounds

I recently replaced by Nuvi 255 with a 2595. The 255 would give a voice announcement ("traffic ahead") as soon as the route was calculated if there was traffic anywhere along the planned route and change the color of the icon. The new 2595 only gives a chime/tone as you approach the vicinity of the traffic issue and puts an information update on the top bar of the screen where the "next turn" info usually is. (The traffic icon still changes color at the beginning of the route.)

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