| I'm sure you've heard the phrase speech to text, | | | | more. |
| if you're in the market for a vehicle GPS. Actually, | | | | Used to be speech to text was a feature that |
| you probably heard the phrase text to speech, | | | | you paid more money for. Your garden variety |
| but people sometimes call this speech to text. So, | | | | vehicle GPS didn't come with this capability, but |
| we'll use that phrase in this article. But let's get | | | | the higher end models did. Nowadays, it's difficult |
| clear about what these phrases really mean, and | | | | to find a GPS that doesn't have speech to text. |
| also clear up a possible source of confusion. | | | | Garmin's nuvi series, for instance, only has two |
| When most folks say GPS with speech to text, | | | | GPS's that don't have speech to text. All the rest |
| they really mean the ability of your GPS to say | | | | do. Most of Magellan's Maestro series, and virtually |
| street names, instead of just saying, "Turn right," | | | | all of their RoadMate series have speech to text. |
| or something like that. Although, some people | | | | And, plenty of TomTom's models have GPS with |
| mean the ability of the GPS to take voice | | | | speech to text. |
| commands, when they say speech to text. Just | | | | So, unless you don't want speech to text, it's |
| so you know, this is usually referred to as "voice | | | | hard to avoid! |
| commands". | | | | Today, the decision doesn't need to be whether |
| I'm going to assume that by GPS with speech to | | | | or not to buy a GPS with speech to text, but if |
| text means the ability of your GPS to say street | | | | you want Bluetooth, multi-point routing, real time |
| names. So, we'll go with that definition for now. | | | | traffic or any of the other neat features that you |
| So, the real question is do you want your GPS to | | | | can get. Prices have come down so much over |
| have this ability? Do you really need speech to | | | | the past two years that even if you get a GPS |
| text? Well, I've got some great news for you. | | | | with more features than speech to text, you're |
| You don't really have to make this decision any | | | | still not going to be spending a fortune. |