Garmin sat nav

So far I have failed to find the male voice!

Go to settings on your garmin press setting's, scroll to language and keyboard press, scroll to voice language press, scroll to top of page, you have british English James, Kate, and Serena hope this helps you.

 ..Pippah 

Glad this was helpful. 

Thank you I will try it again.  This is my second Garmin and I was told there was only one voice option (female) on the first so hadnt even tried to look for a male voice on this model!  I have noticed she has had French lessons on this model though! 

Hi Pippah.I have only had my Garmin about three months so it should  be the same as yours.

Just been on my garmin the male is the top one of three press and hit save.

i dont actually have the voice turned on...

my tomtom (like other satnavs) will tell you your next action (and in how long) immediately after completing the previous one...

...so, if the icon in the bottom corner displays the 'left turn' graphic and the countdown distance says 1.5 miles (and counts down) why do a need anyone (male, female, British English (whatever that is).....) to tell me what i already know?

....and worse, to keep repeating 'turn left in xxx yds' umpteen times until i comply?

no, keep your voices Tomtom....i want a sat nav not a satnag.

But who would I argue with?

But who would I argue with?

true....but do we all need the help/advice/arguments while driving....?

on the 'caravan, carry on' last night, the guy going to France told his wife to 'eat something' as it 'would keep her jaw occupied'

We are looking at Sat Navs and have a car and caravan.  There seems to be two or three on the market  do members have any particular Views. 

Has anyone used aguri caravan and Motorhome system.  It has speed camera detection, built in dash cam and other features?

Any thoughts appreciated. 

Regards

Jacquibsox 

Thanks for re-opening this I'll be interested to see the results.

For what it's worth, we bought a new Garmin, with Smart traffic alerts, but not the caravan special model, this April, prior to going to France.

We updated its Western Europe maps days before going, but it still wasn't accurate, taking us into several cul-de-sacs where roads had been rebuilt, one of them obviously a year or two ago when they re-routed the main road out of a small town in the Loire area.

It tried to take us through a tiny box bridge under a railway that I'd have not wanted to take the car through by itself, if I wanted any wing mirrors, (not a massive 4x4, but a 2004 Volvo V70), let alone with a caravan behind, no matter how tiny!

It has two modes, " quickest" and "shortest" and as has been reported on the posher models, irrespective of which mode it's in, delighted in taking  us round interesting tiny back routes through French towns, when a perfectly obvious more direct main road was there. We learned not to trust it without careful looking at the map, using it less & less as the holiday went on, though it's a handy way of checking where you are on the map when used with its route switched off.

It notifies of speed limits, and warns when you're even a fraction over, which in French towns where zones switch quite quickly should be useful, except that again, it was out of date, and often was at variance with the signs on the road, so almost more trouble than it was worth.

Incidentally, we found that its English voice made such a complete pig's ear of pronouncing French road and place names that we switched it into French language mode. It solves the problem then by simply not trying to pronounce any names, just tells you when to turn, sometimes rather late, sometimes way too early.

Overall, not as impressed as I hoped.