How make Google Maps REPEAT the last spoken turn direction?

[Angelique Begnaud]

Apple Maps repeats the last spoken turn direction simply by
pressing the top of the screen (where the turn arrow is).

One single press, and the last spoken directions are repeated,
and updated if you've moved since the last time they were
spoken.

Garmin portable GPS units do the same repetition by pressing
a single button, which is the same as Apple Maps, which is
the turn arrow.

But, Google maps won't repeat the spoken directions in a
single button press that I can find.

This is so basic a need, that I'm sure it's there. Somewhere.
But where?

How do you get Google Maps to repeat the last spoken directions?

[DevilsPGD]

In the last episode of <lfu573$ggt$2...@speranza.aioe.org>, Angelique

I'm about 80% sure that you could tap the bar at the top, but that that
disappeared now that you can preview future turns (a critically useful
feature)

But I don't see an obvious way to get it to repeat at this point.

--
There's your answer, Fishbulb.

[Andy Burns]

Angelique Begnaud wrote:

> How do you get Google Maps to repeat the last spoken directions?

There wouldn't be much point in my experience, quite a lot of the time
google maps speaks the instructions too late to be useful (e.g. telling
me to leave the roundabout after I already have) so a repeat would
definitely be too late.

[Angelique Begnaud]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:03:23 -0700, DevilsPGD wrote:

> But I don't see an obvious way to get it to repeat at this point.

I've tried, for weeks. And failed.

On Apple Maps, you just tap the menu-directions bar at the top.
On Garmin Nuvi, you just tap the next-turn indicator in the corner.
On Google Maps, you just can't do it (as far as I can tell).

While I love Google Maps, it's incomprehensible that such a
fantastically useful feature while driving, is wholly missing.

Sigh ... ... ... ...

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Angelique Begnaud:

>
>This is so basic a need, that I'm sure it's there. Somewhere.
>But where?
>
>How do you get Google Maps to repeat the last spoken directions?

If people are trying to drive cars while doing this, riding a bike just
got even scarier.

I've got Sygic and it has parameters that control the frequency/distance
of turn announcements. I think I've got it turned up to max because I
get 3-4 announcements for every turn - each one as I get closer.

Truth be told, it's starting to get on my nerves.... but the ability to
control it is there.
--
Pete Cresswell

[Angelique Begnaud]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:29:18 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

> There wouldn't be much point in my experience, quite a lot of the time
> google maps speaks the instructions too late to be useful

That's EXACTLY why you want this feature!
And, why it's a BASIC FEATURE of any decent map program!

Let's say the next turn is 120 miles away.
When I start the map program, it speaks the next turn at startup.
But then it's silent. For a very long time.

Let's say I've driven for 45 minutes, and now I want to know that
next turn again. I just tap on the top bar of Apple Maps, and it
repeats with updated directions: "turn left onto main street in
ten miles" (or whatever).

A few minutes later, if I get confused by all the traffic and signs,
I just tap again, and it says "turn left onto main street in three
miles" (or whatever).

Repeating that last spoken direction is paramount in importance
when driving. Since Google Maps is so wonderful in so many ways,
I'm surprised that only Apple and Garmin have figured this one out.

I was so sure it must be there, that I asked here, to see if it
was just me, or if there was a way to make Google repeat directions.

The only way I know how is to turn off the maps, and then turn
them back on, and then re-route, and THEN it will speak the
updated next-turn direction.

But that's a whole bunch of button clicks for something which should
be a single tap (as it is with Apple Maps & Garmin Nuvis).

[Angelique Begnaud]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:49:09 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

> If people are trying to drive cars while doing this, riding a bike just
> got even scarier.

It's no more distracting to tap a bar at the top of Apple Maps than it
is to change a radio station on the radio.

[Michelle Steiner]

In article <lfv1gn$non$1...@speranza.aioe.org>, Angelique Begnaud

<angeliqu...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Repeating that last spoken direction is paramount in importance
> when driving. Since Google Maps is so wonderful in so many ways,
> I'm surprised that only Apple and Garmin have figured this one out.

Not just Apple and Garmin. Just about everyone else, except (according
to your experience) Google. For example, it works pretty much the same
with the built-in GPS navigation system in my Prius. I just press the
Map button on the steering wheel, and it repeats the previous spoken
instruction, updated for the current position of the car.

[Michelle Steiner]

In article <lfv1le$non$2...@speranza.aioe.org>, Angelique Begnaud

<angeliqu...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> It's no more distracting to tap a bar at the top of Apple Maps than it
> is to change a radio station on the radio.

It all depends on where the iPad or iPhone is located.

To change a radio station in my car, I press a button on the steering
wheel.

[Andy Burns]

Angelique Begnaud wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:29:18 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> There wouldn't be much point in my experience, quite a lot of the time
>> google maps speaks the instructions too late to be useful
>
> That's EXACTLY why you want this feature!

If the first instance is already too late, how does a manual option to
play it again even later, help?

I used to try to use gmaps in audio only, without looking at the screen,
I'd be approaching a roundabout, it would say "in xxx yards at the
roundabout" at this point I'm already wondering which lane I ought to be
in "take the nth exit" by which point it's not rare for me to be at or
past the nth exit.

> Let's say the next turn is 120 miles away.

You must do very different types of journey to me, if I'm on a motorway,
I'll generally know my exit number in advance, otherwise it would be
rare to go more than 5-10 miles without a roundabout, slight fork etc.

> When I start the map program, it speaks the next turn at startup.
> But then it's silent. For a very long time.

One feature that google maps used to have, but seems not to now, was
that after such a long gap in instructions, it would give a chime to
tell you it was about to re-commence instructions.

[Jolly Roger]

On 2014-03-14, Andy Burns <usenet....@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> Angelique Begnaud wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:29:18 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
>>
>>> There wouldn't be much point in my experience, quite a lot of the time
>>> google maps speaks the instructions too late to be useful
>>
>> That's EXACTLY why you want this feature!
>
> If the first instance is already too late, how does a manual option to
> play it again even later, help?

I'd certainly appreciate the ability to repeat directions. I can imagine
reasons for wanting to do so. For instance, perhaps you might not be
able to hear the initial instruction due to road/environmental noise. If
we just use our imaginations, I'm sure we can think of others as well.

And honestly, I'm having a hard time why anyone would argue that such a
feature isn't desirable. It's not like if the feature existed you would
somehow be forced to use it. Don't use it if you don't want to. Seems
pretty simple to me.

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JR

[Andy Burns]

Jolly Roger wrote:

> On 2014-03-14, Andy Burns <usenet....@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> If the first instance is already too late, how does a manual option to
>> play it again even later, help?
>
> I'd certainly appreciate the ability to repeat directions. I can imagine
> reasons for wanting to do so.

Certainly it could be useful, and not harmful to have as a feature.

[nospam]

In article <juydnRnwOuPptr7O...@brightview.co.uk>, Andy

Burns <usenet....@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:

> > Let's say the next turn is 120 miles away.
>
> You must do very different types of journey to me, if I'm on a motorway,
> I'll generally know my exit number in advance, otherwise it would be
> rare to go more than 5-10 miles without a roundabout, slight fork etc.

then you haven't driving in rural areas, where there can be absolutely
nothing for 100+ miles. not even a gas station.

[Andy Burns]

nospam wrote:

> then you haven't driving in rural areas, where there can be absolutely
> nothing for 100+ miles. not even a gas station.

<hint>Or even a petrol station?</hint>

[Neil Ellwood]

There are gas stations in the UK although there are not many of them. They
are for the people who converted their cars to run on hydrogen etc.



--
Neil
Reverse ‘a’ and ‘r’
Remove ‘l’ to get address.

[Jolly Roger]

This isn't a UK news group. Get over yourself.

[Erilar]

Same here. I don't need additional distractions while droving. I can stop
and look at the whole map if I need to.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

[Angelique Begnaud]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:25:30 -0500, Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

> I mean, you can glance at the display, right?
> And any *decent* display
> will have that information CLEARLY marked.

Strangely enough, most map programs which speak the next
turn, don't actually SHOW that next turn if it's a few
miles distant.

They simply show the road you are on.

So, if you missed the next spoken turn (for whatever reason),
or, if you just plain forgot what it is, there's no way in
Google Maps short of stopping and restarting the program, to
get it to re-speak the last spoken direction.

The closest I can get to getting Google Maps to re-speak directions
is to shut off and then turn back on the route.

There must be an easier way ...