Your GPS Can Kill You - GPS Voice Recognition Can Save You

GPS voice recognition solves the most dangerousremote button and speak the command. This
aspect of using an automotive GPS and that iskeeps the GPS from trying to recognize
taking your eyes off the road to manually enterbackground music or normal conversation as
commands into the GPS. When you combine GPScommands.
voice recognition and the text to speech featureFor example, you can push the remote control
where the GPS speaks the street name whenand say "Find Address", and speak the address
you are to turn, you never have to take yourand 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 forit. You can speak any menu option when you
being able to verbally tell your GPS what to dodepress the remote button and the GPS voice
versus having to enter the information into therecognition 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 thataccurate. 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 thecost more than one without it, but it could save
Garmin Nuvi 880. The newer Nuvi 8x5 seriesyour life or prevent a fender bender since you will
consisting of the Nuvi 855 and the Nuvi 885T arenot 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 thatRead the resource information at the end of this
attaches to the steering wheel. When you wantarticle for information about the Garmin Nuvi
the GPS to listen for voice input, you push the885T with GPS voice recognition.