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Voice control
Voice control
There are two types of voice control.
Refer to the owner's manual for the voice recognition activation method.
The second type is provided by your navigation device and you can use it to plan routes and
control other features of your navigation device. You do this by initially tapping the screen on
the navigation device.
About navigation device voice control
Instead of tapping the screen to control your Navigation Device, you can use your voice to
control your Navigation Device.
For example, to increase the volume on your Navigation Device, you can say, "Increase
volume" or "Volume 50%".
To view the list of available commands, tap Help in the Main menu then tap Product
manuals and then tap What can I say.
Important: Voice control requires a computer voice. When there are no computer voices
installed on your Navigation Device, this feature is not available.
To select a computer voice, tap Vo i c e s in the Settings menu, then tap Change voice and
select a computer voice.
Note: Voice control is not suppor ted on all devices or in all languages.
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Planning a journey using your voice
You can navigate to any of the following types of places using your voice:
• An address, including home.
• Cities and towns and their centers.
•Favourites.
• POI categories.
• POIs for named brands of, for example, restaurants, petrol stations, car rental and gyms.
• A recent destination.
To plan a route to an address using speech, do the following:
1. Tap the voice control button in the Driving view.
2. When you hear the tone, you can say, for example "Drive to an address".
3. Say the full address for your destination, for example, 112 James Street, London.
Numbers can be pronounced naturally or one at a time. For example, 357 can be
pronounced as "Three fifty seven" or "Three, five, seven".
Your Navigation Device tells you what it heard.
4. Say "Yes" if the address is correct. If shown a list of addresses, say the list number for the
correct address or say "none of these".
If part of the address is incorrect, you can say something like "change the number",
"change the street", "change the city" or "change the state" to correct the incorrect part.
To begin again, say "start over".
Your Navigation Device starts to guide you to your destination, using spoken instructions and
onscreen directions.
Note: It's not possible to plan a route using your voice for all maps in all countries, or in all
languages.
Tip: Your device has Navigate to on the button in the Main Menu. When planning a
route to an address using speech, say "Navigate to address" if the button shows
Navigate to.
Tips: You can also use your voice to search for the nearest Point of interest (POI)
category by saying something like "Drive to the nearest doctor".
To select a Recent destination or a Favourite, say "Drive to a recent destination" or "Drive
to a Favourite".
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About computer voices
Your Navigation Device uses text-to-speech technology and computer voices to read the
street names on your map as it guides you on your route.
The computer voice analyses the whole phrase or sentence before speaking, to ensure that
the sentence sounds as close as possible to natural speech.
Computer voices can recognise and pronounce foreign towns and street names. For
example, the English computer voice can read and pronounce French street names.
Selecting a voice
To select a different voice on your Navigation Device, tap Vo i c e s in the Settings menu. Then
tap Change voice and select the required voice.
Changing the volume level
The volume for the navigation system can be controlled in 2 ways:
1. Changing the volume by tapping the middle par t of the status (lower) bar of the driving-
view.
2. Turning the volume-dial on the AUDIO while navigation-instructions are played.
Note that these changes are independent from each other. You can set the volume to very low
on the AUDIO and full-open on the Navigation device and you will still hear little sound. We
recommend to use only one way to change the volume. In case you hear no/little sound,
please check the volume on the navigation device and if not set to a low volume, please turn
the dial on the AUDIO while a navigation instruction is playing (tap the middle part of the
status-bar to force an instruction to be played).
Note: Computer voices are not available in all languages.
If you require a computer voice and your language is unavailable, then you need to install
and use the English language computer voice. For more information on computer voices,
go to tomtom.com/services
(see tomtom.com/services -
http://www.tomtom.com/services
).
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