Recent content by Penelope_Weaver

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    Best Turn-By-Turn Navigation

    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...
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    Best Turn-By-Turn Navigation

    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...
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    Best Turn-By-Turn Navigation

    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...
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    Best Turn-By-Turn Navigation

    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...
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    Best Turn-By-Turn Navigation

    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...
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    Best Turn-By-Turn Navigation

    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...