Thinking of getting a GPS -- what to look for, what to stay away from?

I think my family has that one too.^

It got us to Boston safe and sound . You gotta put it on the British lady to get the full effect lol.

Heh. The British one is hilarious. And you can add-on Simpson voices and other celeb voices. Pretty hilarious stuff.

shabbs wrote:Heh. The British one is hilarious. And you can add-on Simpson voices and other celeb voices. Pretty hilarious stuff.

So you can have Homer Simpson yell 'DOH !" if you miss your turn ?

That'd be priceless to have.

I just looked some up on the Garmin site. You can get SpongeBob, Dora, a squirrel, and a yeti...haha.

Just make sure the voices are TTS (Text To Speech) compatible or else they won't say street names etc...

shabbs wrote:Just make sure the voices are TTS (Text To Speech) compatible or else they won't say street names etc...

Can I get Herve Villechaize? (Ze turn! Ze turn!)

I have the Tom Tom and I guess it doesn't have TTS because it never says the street names. I can't complain though since it was a gift.

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:Just make sure the voices are TTS (Text To Speech) compatible or else they won't say street names etc...

Can I get Herve Villechaize? (Ze turn! Ze turn!)

I want a Gilbert Gottfried.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:I have the Tom Tom and I guess it doesn't have TTS because it never says the street names. I can't complain though since it was a gift.

What model do you have?

How do you adjust routes on the 265 (I figure it would be the same as the 255). I'm taking my kid to the Carleton Ice House for practice, so I figured I'd have a little fun with the GPS. Entered the address given (1125 Colonel By) and it generated a route that takes me to Baseline and then comes up Colonel By. I prefer the 417 to Bronson route. I tapped the 417 on the map, added it as a "Via Point" and it changed the route to continue along the 417, take Preston exit, to Prince of Wales down to Heron, then up Colonel By again -- instead of taking Bronson. And, of course, it zoomed back in to my departure point, so I had to zoom out and pan a few times again, to try and add more Via Points to correct the route.

So how do I (more easily) alter the route? Also, the 1125 Colonel By point on the map is not really the Ice House. Is there a way to alter the destination a bit?

I feel like this is all wrong. Would be easier to do the route changes in Google Maps (since I've done that many times) and then download it?

OK, so I found the additional voices: http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/voices/

But these are the only ones I've found so far -- Sponge Bob, Dora the Explorer, and a few others. No Simpsons. Are there other voices out there that I just haven't found yet?

Also found a program that lets you change your voice file. Haven't downloaded or tried using it yet, but apparently you can change the phrases used in specific instances -- for example, you could get rid of the "Recalculating" and change it to "Doh!" -- now if you can get Homer voice on top of that, peeerfect:

http://forums.gpsreview.net/viewtopic.php?t=7824

The TTS stuff is a bit funny. I was driving around the West Island area of Montreal yesterday and the unit pronounced "Brunswick" with a French accent (well, stressing the "wick" syllable, making it sound like a French accent, at least). Then when I had to get onto HWY 20 going West, the map has it listed as "AUT 20 O" ('O' for 'Ouest) -- the unit pronounced it as "Owe tee twenty owe". I knew where I was going and only had it on for fun. Someone not familiar with French could have a bit of a problem, though.

Stupid map. My language is set to English, why would the map be in French?

Are you still thinking of getting a GPS or did you get one? Can we change the title now?

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Are you still thinking of getting a GPS or did you get one? Can we change the title now?

It's earlier in the thread -- got one. No need to change the thread title, though. Others could be "thinking of getting a GPS", right?

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/weird/2011/01/24/17010436.html

Cap'n Clutch wrote:http://www.ottawasun.com/news/weird/2011/01/24/17010436.html

Can't embed this one, but it's great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yyKrS8jwSY

wprager wrote:

OK, so I found the additional voices: http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/voices/

But these are the only ones I've found so far -- Sponge Bob, Dora the Explorer, and a few others. No Simpsons. Are there other voices out there that I just haven't found yet?

Also found a program that lets you change your voice file. Haven't downloaded or tried using it yet, but apparently you can change the phrases used in specific instances -- for example, you could get rid of the "Recalculating" and change it to "Doh!" -- now if you can get Homer voice on top of that, peeerfect:

http://forums.gpsreview.net/viewtopic.php?t=7824

The Tomtom has a few really great voices, most notably John Cleese. I grew up watching Fawlty Towers, A Fish Called Wanda, and of course Monty Python. The man is hilarious, has incredible delivery. His twitter is really funny too.

They have a few other pretty funny voices, also have Homer Simpson, Mr Burns, KITT from Knight Rider, Snoop Dogg, Billy Connolly, Darth Vader, C3PO, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, and Yoda, among others.

You grew up in 12 episodes? Impressive!