New nuvi 50LM

Thankfully.

When you're at the screen offering Voice choices, look either for "Speaks Street Names" or TTS following the Voice's name. These are the only voices that you have that will speak street names. Note also that all free or paid extra voices available will not speak street names:

http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/

Here are some more vehicles:

http://www.vehiclesforgarminnuvi.com/

Thanks CraigW! If I had half a brain I'd be an idiot as I completely missed the "Speaks Street Names" on the language screen.

As to paid street names, doesn't the following mean if you buy 'Darth Vader' he will speak street names:

"Darth Vader
Submit to the commands of Darth Vader with this Star Wars voice and graphics bundle. Follow his turn-by-turn directions precisely to the destination you seek (other than Alderaan)."

Curse my ignorance to Hades.

No, he just tells you to turn right in so many feet, and so on. A non-TTS voice is nothing but a group of audio files combined into one file. There is no Test To Speech emulator like in the TTS voices.

Footnote #1 for both Darth and Yoda voices:

¹ Voices are for entertainment purposes only and do not provide text-to-speech navigation

Regardless of brain mass, I am idiot.

Later models of Garmin no longer speak the word recalculating.

I too have purchased this, and I am liking it! Nice, big screen. Easy-to-hear audio. And compatible with all of my icons and pois from before!

I'll second that

This is what I second!

I read elsewhere that the Nuvi 50 is not capable of receiving traffic data, even with a transmitter in place. Is that correct?

Is that something that could be added later in a firmware update or in another way?

Not a deal breaker; just curious.

Sorry but the Nuvi 50 is not able to receive traffic even if you bought a traffic receiver and subscription.

Please look under specifications under "Fetaures & Benefits", then scroll down to "Traffic Compatible.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=401&pID=92845

That's what I had read and just wanted to be sure. Thanks!

We took a trip to Erie PA and saw the junction views for the first time. Pretty helpful and very cool as well.

A couple of times the GPS took us ways we knew weren't the best, but since we forgot the way we had gone in the past, the GPS got us where we were going, as it always does.

Very satisfied with the nuvi 50M.

So there are only 2 American-English voices for the 50LM. One is nice and clear but doesn't speak street names; another speaks street names but is rather muffled. You can download Jack, who speaks street names but has a heavy English accent and it's sometimes hard to determine whether he's saying "right" or "route" or "rot". Is there nothing available that speaks street names clearly? Why only 2 voices for the 50???

Add more through web updater. You should get an option to take additional updates. You might have to be careful. Your unit has only 1.76GB of storage which might be the reason for only a couple of voices. Doesn't mean you can't replace them with something you like.

I miss the recalculating..., especially since I changed mine on our older GPS to say...are you a better GPS?.

But I found it while searching for info about TTS voices for my Nuvi 50LM. I used the webupdater program and found several additional English TTS voices for my unit including Karen from "down under". She was my favorite from my old 260W. Nice to have a familiar voice telling me where to go.

Michael