Sat Nav with voice that actually works?

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I bought a Tom Tom Go 510 a year ago and have used it daily ever since. I do multiple routes per day and have not been that impressed with the TomTom, to be honest it is not great at anything. In particular the voice activation.

One of the main reasons I bought it was for its voice activation feature, I was hoping I'd be able to tell it a post code or an address and it would understand and find it. It just doesn't work, it cannot recognise any basic commands, rubbish.

Any options? I'd rather have a stand alone unit, than use my iPhone. Must have traffic and cameras, must be fast and quick to get back on track. Must have very good voice recognition, as good a Siri or the Google one.

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juan king said:

do you have an old phone or small tablet that you can install waze on? it is a brilliant app that has voice recognition live traffic data etc etc

Does that use data? Or can I download the maps?

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juan king said:

do you have an old phone or small tablet that you can install waze on? it is a brilliant app that has voice recognition live traffic data etc etc

Thanks. I just tried it on my iPhone, it will not work for me, too clunky, voice didn't work, kept 'thinking' and then locked up. Ok for the odd trip, but I need something robust for multiple trips a day.

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TurboHatchback said:

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thescamper said:

Megaphone, whereabouts in the country are you from, accents and dialects can completely f**k up voice prompts. Does SIRI or Googles equivalent work for you.

I wondered this too, I have a Gamin Nuvi 2360 and the voice recognition on this is flawless as long as I enunciate clearly, if not then it's hopeless but all VR is, especially in an environment with high levels of background noise.

Exactly what I was about to ask. My Tomtom GO6000 has quite good voice control, can usually get it to do what I want. My accent is pure BBC queens English though, I expect this helps. There was an amusing clip on The Grand Tour of some northern chap not getting on with his voice control system because his accent was so thick it was barely the same language.

I'm BBC English, even if I speak very slowly and clearly it is rubbish. The main thing it cannot do is understand post codes, "Hello To Tom" "Go To W1A 1AA" ..... nothing, just spouts a load of clap trap.