text-speech feature: Can someone tell me how important the text-speech feature is?
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I will definitely recommend Nuvi 370 over 270 because of several reasons. Text to speech is definitely very helpful believe me I have a Nuvi 200 which doesnot speak street names, which is sometimes very frustrating. I have missed turns which were very close to each other. Name of the street while driving in busy streets is surely very helpful. This would be even more helpful especially in Europe. Other features are worth the extra $70-$80. Live traffic, Bluetooth are amongst them. I will be buying 370 for my Europe trip pretty soon, just looking for the good price.
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Program is Dragon's Naturally Speaking. Once you perform the setup of reading a provided dialogue, the program "learns" you voice and can then transcribe your voice recordings to an editable text file. I read through my transcriptions and then edit to ensure proper punctuation. Still quicker than typing it all.
953068
It depends on what your software is designed to do. I use speech recognition also and I don't hear myself speak through my headset while I'm talking.
2053952
You can use it as talk and text, but it also has optional data features ( never tried the data features though).
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The problem is with the Text-to-Speach feature, especially useful when you want to learn another language. This software allows translating from English into another language, but you might not be able to hear the pronunciation with some Windows version.
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I just bought the Mio c230. I've yet to use it, but it had the best combination of features in that price range. The TomTom 1 3rd edition was the easist to use, but it doesn't have text to speech, something I'm betting I'll be glad I got. After all, whatever ease you lose setting it, you gain by having the steet names spoken. I'd be interested to see what other people think.
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there is a switch on the back that has 3 modes on trial and off...you have it in trial mode...switch it to the on mode and you will hear many phrases ;)
1785436
Sorry, I cannot help you with this information as I am still trying to learn how o use it. Too many features, I can't figure it out.
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Also I just wanted to add that I did post this using my voice text option, so if there's some weird spellings or grouping of words? My phone decided to do it on its own, but I wanted to get the info to you soon as I could so that's why I used it. Anyways once again have fun!
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Hi Bruce I've barely used the voice feature at all - only to disable vocal annunciation. It seems to work albeit you must speak a bit slowly & certainly clearly.
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I'd say something a bit less than Siri. Ok for basic vocabulary, but probably not usable if you want to use your business name in the greeting. We just recorded a greeting professionally and uploaded that as an audio file.
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Yes, you can do voice commands. I don't remember how to do it, but Plantronics has an excellent customer service department. They can walk you through it. I've been procrastinating about doing it, but it's a wonderful feature.
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I am terribly sorry but I have not use it yet ,but the way I see it ,you can fade out the voice...try it..
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It would be slow. Try read, write and gold version 11 program. You scan the pages and it converts it to speech.
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Hey Natalie,To be honest with you, I rarely use that feature. But I would assume that it shouldn't be a problem. However don't take my word for it though. Sorry if I didn't answer your question.
786599
Yes; a good value, but it disables dictation in the Mac version. I needed that function.
36959
No where near as robust as Siri. Windows 8 has speech recognition, but for me it's more frustration than useful.