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Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:04 am Post subject:
I have a quite noticeable south Wales accent and my tomtom is fine most of the time. The trick is to speak normally rather than louder and more "computer like" as we often do
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Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 870 Location: Southport
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 6:09 pm Post subject:
DennisN wrote:
Anyway, it seems to me the main sales babble is about Speak and Go. It recognises over 1000 commands. I wonder if it'll get round to recognising even ONE from Mikealder? They still have it wrong - my method, suggested years ago, was to simply have a hands free command to activate the TT menu, e.g. "Tom Tom Menu", then use the earlier method of numbering the menu items and speaking the numbers. But I expect they'll still have the cute little microphone symbol to tap not hands free, then get it to recognise all the different accents.
I'd vote for that, much easier than learning all the specific commands & I'll certainly never get anywhere near remembering 1000
I gave up on voice control after I eventually managing to get my TT to correctly select one of my favorites only to find the stupid thing insisted on navigating me to a completely different one. I tried it numerous times with the same result so gave up
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject:
I have found that the trick with voice control is to speak QUIETLY. But that's only when the nice lady asks me if I'd like to use the quicker route, I gave up on navigating years ago (with the 720). I gave it a brief try with the 550 when somebody said it worked better, but for me it didn't, so I don't waste my time. The numbered menu system worked great with the 720 and I can't understand why they didn't take it all the way down the menu system. I mean, who's going to remember the 981st command? (It's actually "Turn off Bluetooth"). (No it's not, it's "Change FM Transmitter frequency to 101.7").
So simple - teach you voice control by making you say "TomTom Menu" enough times for it to learn your voice, then have you say the numbers so many times it gets those too. And away you go, Meerkat noise!
It's surprising that they don't include voice recognition training with the system - I knew a guy in 1980 who had voice dictation on his word processor and I subsequently got it some years later. In both cases there was a thorough session of speaking displayed words to get round to the computer learning your language. _________________ Dennis
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They still have it wrong - my method, suggested years ago, was to simply have a 
