Caltex Selling Germin GPS

[Carlover76]

TTS = Text-To-Speech

 

It means it will read back to you the road name you are turning, if the Nuvi set do not have TTS then it will only speak "In 200m, Turn Left".

 

If it has TTS function then it will speak "In 200m, turn left to Orchard Road" so you do not have to look at the screen to do the turning.

[N00b]

icic...learnt somthing new...kinda noob towards tis gps thingy

[Showtime]

so are we right to say that it only reads road names? any other things that TTS reads?

[Civic6656]

But TTS has it's limitations too.

For roads that is in english, no problem. But for roads that is in Malay, it will sound very funny if pronounced in English. Most of the time i have to look at the screen as i don't understand what it is trying to pronounce....

Edited September 22, 2008 by Civic6656

[Newcar]

Probably.. we may get ourself lost in Geylang if fully guided by GPS...

[Civic6656]

W or w/o GPS, we'll get lost in Geylang.

[Speeddemon]

For a moment when I saw the title to this thread.....i thought it was some china product that's a copy of Garmin

[Spidercool]

sorry lar...typo error, too fast and type Germin instead of Garmin..

[Speeddemon]

The funniest part is....if it cant pronounce it....it will resort to spelling the darned word out....

 

I ever kenna something like this "In 100m, turn left at Tiong B.....A.....H....R.....U road"....was totally confused when i heard it the first time

[Lorrliew]

Currently, you can get any Garmin Nuvi set with TTS in Singapore from PW and other GPS dealers unless you go for Nuvi 700 series.

 

I ask my friend to buy from USA and they do still have Nuvi 350 with TTS, it only cost me around $360.

 

If you buy in overseas like US, it is not loaded with Spore map, isn't? Then you have to pay additional to get local map?

[Tas0577]

No, I can load the map from malsingmaps and it is more updated than the Garmin MY/SG Maps.

[Mivec9]

yes get Malsing gold maps! can search by postal code

 

Just used it yester to topo to lantern festival at Chinese garden.

[Mivec9]

which voice u used? mine so far able pronounce most roads.

[Civic6656]

Ya man...that's why i changed to Nuvi205 lately. Just tell me to turn left or right is good enough.