Best GPS with TTS

bastian74 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 12:08 AM

Is iGo8 the only GPS app with TTS still?
Thanks

bkrodgers · #2 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 01:46 AM

The new version of Bing has it, and it's free!

renegade339 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 08:42 AM

+1 for the new Bing. I've only been able to mess with it a little bit, but it seems pretty good.

a_c_s · #4 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 08:49 AM

Bing is nice for a free app, and definitely upped the ante vs googlemaps... I think Garmin XT is much more user friendly personally, but doesn't speak street names... iGo is the only one I recall w TTS but my recollection is it needs some tweaking to get this functionality to work properly on the TP2... do a search on that and you'll find some good info...

firefurby · #5 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 09:02 AM

iGo is too much of a headache to get to work properly on the TP2.

Bing is a pretty great free alternative.

I prefer Garmin XT but that's because I have been using Garmin products for years.

Another app you might want to try is Waze. I stopped using it, but it's nice cuz it's also free and does TTS. May not read out the street names, but it does everything else.

ScratchyPDX · #6 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 09:19 AM

+1 for Bing. I like AmazeGPS also and it is free. I liked iGuidance 4 (it has TTS) until I move to the TP2/WM 6.5, but the TTS didn't always work properly in WM 6.5. Beside, how can you beat FREE?

smileyg · #7 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 10:31 AM

iguidance and bing are great. igo takes too much memory if i am not mistaken but good as well

bastian74 · #8 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 12:43 PM

i got iGo8 with tts working well, but there are so many addresses and resteraunts it doesnt recognize and that is with 2009 maps.

I assume bing requires network service so that is only partially helpful to me.
thanks

joeadamo · #9 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 05:57 PM

+1 for Bing - works great on TP2!

wildpig · #10 (**permalink**) 06-11-2010, 06:02 PM

igo8 is probably the best map prog w/ TTS. I group Igo8(and others like iguidance, TomTom) separate from gmap& Bing since they don't require data connection to work (good for 0versea). Igo8 might be a little harder to get working but it is the most customizable and also have very extensive map collections. There is a thread on getting TTS to work on here in sticky. I put the link for the smaller speech pack which definitely work and requires less memory as well as working multi resolution data and branding.zip.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...83#post1769183

I highly rec Igo8.