Voice recognition would be major reason for purchase: How is this Garmin with recognizing women's voices?
2013948
I just got the 3790T. I was driving and my wife activated the GPS from the passenger seat. You need to pronounce the phrase like the GPS does. When you input one, it will repeat it back toy ou. I think it works great. I chose "CAPTAIN KIRK" because it had a good 'voice' strength of 80 and the GPS seems to recognize it even when softly talking to it. I mentioned the word to my wife in a conversation and the GPS 'heard' it and switched to Voice Mode.
772172
Yes! Siri and BT work well. Also, if you use Google maps, turn by turn directions also go through your speakers.
258692
No, there is NO voice recognition software that can do this at all well in 2012. You know how when you call an airline or bank and get into arguments with their voice recognition software that tries to listen to what you need? It's a long-term goal to develop reliable voice transcription that can listen to multiple people with multiple voicings and dialects speaking conversationally, but it's not even close to being implemented yet. Right now, the state of the art for voice recognition, which Dragon employs, is that each user develops his or her own personal user profile that gets more accurate the more it's used. Dragon can only use one user profile per session. The software has to be restarted to load a different user profile for a different speaker, so it's totally impractical in a meeting- or courtroom-type setting where several people may speak a sentence or two in turn. Dragon would do a very poor job in this setting without restarting it to change to a different user profile as the speaker changed--way too many errors to be useful. There is transcription hardware available elsewhere that tries to work around this using Dragon and Word. You need a translator, who re-dictates what he or she hears the meeting or courtroom participants say as they're speaking, much like a foreign translator at the United Nations. This person wears a device that looks like an oxygen mask (to focus the input to Dragon to that user profile, and also to reduce the noise in the meeting or courtroom from having another person speak simultaneously). The people who sell this hardware say that it works well and saves years of practice with a stenography machine such as the ones used by courtroom reporters. I haven't tried it, so I can't say if it's a good workaround, though I do agree that in theory, it sounds workable with a little practice on the part of the re-dictator.
1077298
Does the Garmin 250 or 200 come with Street name announcements, or just "right & left turn now?" Is the voice annoying? Henry
647922
No.However,google now or siri can potentially work through blue tooth but not the garmin in unit.
1353321
If the microphone is close enough to the speaker, it doesn't matter whose voice it is. The speech recognition programs on newer versions of windows is at least as good as Dragon, in my opinion.
1113460
I have not used it in that specific application but, logically, it should do the job. However, as you describe the Garmin you will also need a gender changer. CHEERS..............
36959
No where near as robust as Siri. Windows 8 has speech recognition, but for me it's more frustration than useful.
223040
It has a microphone, so if you have an app that recognizes voice, it SHOULD work.
2237482
I can hear the GPS voice loud and clear. It is sent through my hardwired headset. Even if it wasn't, I could probably hear it at full volume. You can simply un-latch the unit from the bike and lock it into the car window mount. I've had no problems using it on both types of vehicles.
1450789
Yes, but soon after I got my new cable, I sold it and the Garmin. The person who purchased it says it works great!I purchased a new Garmin, voice activated.
2275958
My husband has a Garmin watch that he loves for training purposes. You might be better off with one of those types of products. It uses GPS to track distance traveled and gives you your pace and other things. It works with software and you can see the map of your hike and other neat features. Of course, that will cost more, but might be more useful to you.
1316569
Pretty much. It does a pretty good job of recognizing spoken addresses. It has more difficulty in recognizing some common destinations like "the art museum". But it does a pretty good job of recognizing and directing you to "Wendy's" and such.
803913
I haven't tried it with voice recognition, but it does work with the windows 7 Laptop
443741
I agree with your comments. I have had the TomTom One XL for over a month now. The Text to Speech would be nice option but I have found that it is not necessary to have. The accuracy of the satellites isa such that it tells you exactly when to turn. Also, the advantage of the big screen means that it's real easy to see the street name to turn on to if you really need it. So Text to speech is not a deal breaker for me.
2181365
I just returned my 650 because of voice problem. It worked out for couple of days (you can barely hear it if you're in a Honda vehicle at highway speed) and then conked out :-(. I really liked this piece for all its features such as automatic rerouting (got lost in Charleston, WV, downtown and the system automatically reroutes before 1/4 city block!), amazing screen, windshield mount, etc.
1889473
Yes, it certainly is. I'm glad I got it when I did; I just did my free yearly update and every update takes up a bit more space then the one before. I take it as a good thing. As I digress... Yeah, if it's a good price, grab it. It will work fine. Good Luck and don't forget to download all of the Garmin extras that you may find cool and/or useful from their website. You can register it anytime there as well.