Text To Speech on Tom Tom 7

[slypher]

Originally Posted by bwillet

I've used both Garmin and TomTom fairly extensively, and I prefer Garmin. Considering you can find Garmin for only around $60 (search froogle.com), I think it's a steal. Here's a pros/cons list (all my opinion, of course).

- Garmin's maps seem to be a little better
- Garmin's routing is better
- Easier to enter addresses in Garmin
- Garmin has free traffic (though usually too delayed to be useful), weather, gas prices (very cool)
- Garmin can be a bit pokey, you always seem to be a bit further ahead than the screen shows, making it occasionally difficult to know where to turn in an unfamilar area
- TomTom's status bar is configurable. It annoys the crap out of me that on Garmin, you're stuck with your speed being in the lower left corner, and arrival time in the lower right. These are not changeable. Why do I need my speed displayed, when I have a speedometer right in front of me? Wouldn't it be much smarter to display remaining time, an arrow indicating direction of next turn, miles remaining, or even a clock?
- They both deal with detours differently. TomTom gives you more options as far as dealing with rerouting and detours, but Garmin's ability to eliminate a specific TURN (not a street) is more useful than anything TomTom offers, IMHO
- Garmin doesn't have all the different voices available
- TomTom's motion is smoother
- Garmin has fewer issues with built-in GPS (at least on Mogul and Touch)

Originally Posted by rose1

Mainly because I hear with TOMTOM, you have to open up a GPS port before using it. This is called priming the GPS where as with Garmin XT, it gets a gps lock within seconds. Garmin XT does not have TTS but I really don't expect that from a mobile device.

As far as a free trial, you can d/l it off the garmin website and try it out.

Thanks for the info. FYI, I can prime tomtom using an astrolauncher link. This makes it so that i start tomtom and open the GPS port at the same time.

However, the features mentioned (such as the gas prices and it being easier to enter destinations) make Garmin appealing. I will be trying it out soon.

-s

[Whosdaman]

TT7 is not up yet.....it's all torrents right now and all links are going to be taken down

[dealpapa]

why not Garmin XT with tts

[slypher]

Originally Posted by TomTom Support

Dear Slypher,

Thank you for responding. We are happy to answer your questions.

Navigator 7 does not support the text-to-speech feature that can be found on most of our all-in-one devices. We apologize for the confusion with our earlier statements. Computer voices will not function while using this software.

If you have any further questions or comments, please email or call us at 866-486-6866 Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM until 7:00 PM EST. Thanks again for writing. At TomTom we believe in showing you the way the easy way.

With Best Regards,

Patrick

The TomTom Customer Support Team

Ahh well, confirms what we already knew. Guess maybe we will get lucky and TomTom will release version 8 for PDA with TTS??

-s

[bwillet]

I've used both Garmin and TomTom fairly extensively, and I prefer Garmin. Considering you can find Garmin for only around $60 (search froogle.com), I think it's a steal. Here's a pros/cons list (all my opinion, of course).

- Garmin's maps seem to be a little better
- Garmin's routing is better
- Easier to enter addresses in Garmin
- Garmin has free traffic (though usually too delayed to be useful), weather, gas prices (very cool)
- Garmin can be a bit pokey, you always seem to be a bit further ahead than the screen shows, making it occasionally difficult to know where to turn in an unfamilar area
- TomTom's status bar is configurable. It annoys the crap out of me that on Garmin, you're stuck with your speed being in the lower left corner, and arrival time in the lower right. These are not changeable. Why do I need my speed displayed, when I have a speedometer right in front of me? Wouldn't it be much smarter to display remaining time, an arrow indicating direction of next turn, miles remaining, or even a clock?
- They both deal with detours differently. TomTom gives you more options as far as dealing with rerouting and detours, but Garmin's ability to eliminate a specific TURN (not a street) is more useful than anything TomTom offers, IMHO
- Garmin doesn't have all the different voices available
- TomTom's motion is smoother
- Garmin has fewer issues with built-in GPS (at least on Mogul and Touch)

[drurc8]

Does Garmin have TTS?

[neogeek]

not all tomtoms use linux, I am pretty sure the 720 uses embedded windows, so I don't see why we can't get it from the one of those and go from there?

Update: After doing a little research Loquendo TTS engine can run on Windows Mobile 6 so I think it is still possible. If people want TTS now, iGo 8 has support for it, although it is a very bloated program.

Update x2: Nevermind, all tomtom devices are linux pna's. awell

[varunb007]

i couldn't get garmin to work but i have tried tomtom, iguidance, igo and destinator. i've decided to go with destinator because it has text to speech, is finger friendly and seems to pick up where i am pretty quickly (rather than being delayed, as someone mentioned about garmin). i wish it had traffic and other real-time features, but i guess that's what google maps/ms live search are for.