Recent content by Penelope_Weaver

I'm not using bluetooth—so I cannot blame the clipping on that. But yesterday I made an interesting discovery. I downloaded both the Samsung High Quality Female Text-to-Speech and Google Text-to-speech voices. But when I tried to "Listen to an example," nothing happened. After lots of googling...

The plot thickens. Right before I set out, an update for google maps got installed on my phone. It seems to do the turn-by-turn navigation now—but occasionally some of the words are clipped. And waze exhibits the same odd behavior—but much worse because only the first (or last) syllable in a...

Thanks for the help. I have English (US) - Samantha including street names checked. I don't know what's going on. Will retest Waze as well Google Maps this afternoon and let you know what happened...

Thanks for the specific directions. (As I said, I am new to smartphones, etc!) I'll try what you suggest this afternoon and let you know what happens...

I thought that I might have set up googlemaps incorrectly. But when I searched this issue on google, I discovered that there are a lot of people complaining that googlemaps had taken away the street name vocalization feature... Maybe I'm crazy, but I would sure like to know how to make it (or...

I'm new to Smartphones and hence Android. I bought the Note 3 with a 14-day trial and time is running out. I am very happy with just about everything about it?except the fact that I can't seem to find a turn-by-turn navigation program that vocalizes street names. (Apparently googlemaps and waze...