| GPS voice recognition solves the most dangerous | | | | remote button and speak the command. This |
| aspect of using an automotive GPS and that is | | | | keeps the GPS from trying to recognize |
| taking your eyes off the road to manually enter | | | | background music or normal conversation as |
| commands into the GPS. When you combine GPS | | | | commands. |
| voice recognition and the text to speech feature | | | | For example, you can push the remote control |
| where the GPS speaks the street name when | | | | and say "Find Address", and speak the address |
| you are to turn, you never have to take your | | | | and the Garmin Nuvi 855 or Nuvi 885T will |
| eyes off the road to look at the GPS display. | | | | recognize the address and calculate the route to |
| GPS manufacturers have recognized the need for | | | | it. You can speak any menu option when you |
| being able to verbally tell your GPS what to do | | | | depress the remote button and the GPS voice |
| versus having to enter the information into the | | | | recognition will recognize it. |
| GPS by poking a touch screen. TomTom, | | | | GPS voice recognition has matured and is quite |
| Magellan, Navigon, and Garmin have GPS units that | | | | accurate. You should seriously consider including it |
| will respond to voice input. | | | | on your next GPS. A voice recognition GPS will |
| The first Garmin to accept voice input was the | | | | cost more than one without it, but it could save |
| Garmin Nuvi 880. The newer Nuvi 8x5 series | | | | your life or prevent a fender bender since you will |
| consisting of the Nuvi 855 and the Nuvi 885T are | | | | not have to take your eyes off the road to |
| even better at accepting voice commands. | | | | manually input commands into your GPS |
| These GPS have a remote control button that | | | | Read the resource information at the end of this |
| attaches to the steering wheel. When you want | | | | article for information about the Garmin Nuvi |
| the GPS to listen for voice input, you push the | | | | 885T with GPS voice recognition. |