Hmm Spoken address eh?

DennisN · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:17 am Post subject:

I just shouted blahdiblahdiblahdiblahdiblah at mine (quiet computer bedroom, but without my teeth in!) and the top right corner turned orange, then eventually after a few seconds of thinking (!!) listed cities - first one was Llanbadarn Fynydd (IIRC).

Like I've said before and elsewhere, this is a terrific feature which should have been introduced next year, not rushed out in this very poor implementation. It would be ideal for PostCode navigation, handsfree dialling, probably ALL the functions it possesses - Simply activate by shouting MENU or something, then away you go. And I'm just a daft old man, but they could have asked me.
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shaun43uk · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject:

uptowndisco · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 06, 2005 Posts: 79

Here is a link to a short demo I made demonstrating speech recognition on my 720 , notice you don't need to wait on single numbers being recognised.

I don't have a BBC voice!, rather a local Scottish accent and it recognises my voice Laughing

DennisN · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject:

Yessss!!

You didn't even sound like you were shouting!
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Ballistix · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 02, 2005 Posts: 56

I can't get it to work at all even with the files from Shaun. It's all pants. Sad

Will contact TomTom to see what they say about a replacement...Pixmania returns here we come.../sigh

Thanks for the help all...Closest I can get is the orange symbol up in the top right and London Luton Airport displaying as text!! Laughing Out Loud

...I'm just wondering if this unit has come back once before...

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DennisN · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject:

Remember your contract is with pixmania, NOT Tom Tom. Do NOT get into the repairs cycle, insist on replacement. In my experience (and I can claim some when I'm now up to GO720 #6 and #7) politeness and reasonableness are very good starting points.
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Ballistix · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 02, 2005 Posts: 56

OK I've emailed Pixmania...this is going to turn into a nightmare I'm certain of it...will try TomTom once more tomorrow. If I can get this going it's better than going through a replacement process I'm sure!

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Andy_P · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject:

If anyones Voice Recognition STOPS working, as opposed to not working from new....

MY Go720's voice recognition worked (as well as it ever does) for a few days (I bought it while on holiday) until I got home and started tinkering.

I never worked out exactly at what stage it stopped working, but I suspect that it was when I replaced the MapSettings.cfg with one from my Go300 (to get my favourites etc. on the new machine. This always used to work to transfer settings, but might mess up some of the new features.
Anyway, I had to EITHER do a "return to factory settings" OR do a restore of my "day one/untouched state" backup, at which point the speech recognition returned to life.

Ballistix · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 02, 2005 Posts: 56

AHA!! I copied my map settings over too....hmm going to check that now...thanks for that tip...

Ballistix · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 02, 2005 Posts: 56

Well I'll be...I've got it working....I deleted my old favourites...didnt work...then realised I had deleted the Europe folder...put that back....then went to maps and chose Western Europe as the map...bingo now works with speech!

Is this map OK to use for the UK? Why would it have Western Europe AND UK as a seperate map? If I'm good to use Europe then I'm working with speech!

Cheers

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:11 am Post subject:

Which takes us right back to the question of "what on Earth were you sold?"
A 720 should only come with a Western Europe (and a Canary Islands) map. The Western Europe should cover the UK fine.
Glad the original MapSettings.cfg fixed it though.

Ballistix · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 02, 2005 Posts: 56

Gordon bennett...I'm feeling a fool now..I wonder if I copied my UK map dir over from my GO? Jees...

I'll delete the UK map dir then! Feeling very foolish...

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DennisN · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:29 am Post subject:

So Andy the post count poster turns up the magic again!! Absolute totally grovelling grovel apology Not Worthy

called for now, innit? I'm going to give this a try some time soon Andy, to see if it improves mine - just as soon as I can get up the impetus to list all my favourites for re-entry - I presume the speech recognition stayed working after you re-entered them manually? What on earth were you doing to discover this? I too copied my mapsettings across, just like we advise everybody to do. Why would you want to be without your favourites etc? You must have a really devious mind - I'm not sure I should be trying to fix up a meet and I'll sure as hell never let you get your hands on any of my GO720s!! Twisted Evil

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Ballistix · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 02, 2005 Posts: 56

Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry!

Smile

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Anita · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:49 am Post subject:

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