Navigation Voices
Doretta Castoe
Waze is a popular GPS app that helps people find their way. One fun thing about Waze is that you can choose different voices to guide you. Instead of just a regular voice, you can pick from famous people or characters. This makes driving more enjoyable.
Waze Celebrity Voices is a unique feature in the Waze navigation app. In Waze, you can choose different voices to tell you directions. With Celebrity Voices, you can pick the voice of a famous person. It could be a popular actor, singer, or even a character from TV shows or movies.
This is different from normal GPS voices and adds something special. These celebrity voices make driving more fun. Imagine a famous movie star telling you when to turn left or right! It feels like having a celebrity friend in the car with you.
This character from Sesame Street, with his unique and playful voice, would be a hit, especially with children and those who grew up watching the show, adding a nostalgic and fun element to the journey.
But if you want a peaceful drive, find a voice that is soft and calming. This can help you relax while you drive. So, your mood can help you decide which voice to pick for a better driving experience.
Matching a Waze voice to your driving style can make your trips better. If you enjoy lively, fun drives, pick an energetic voice. This could be a voice from a funny actor or a lively character. It will make your drive feel more adventurous.
But, if you like calm and peaceful drives, choose a soothing voice. This could be someone with a gentle, soft voice. It will help you relax and enjoy a quiet journey. The right voice can make your driving experience match how you feel.
Trying different voices in Waze can be a lot of fun. You might find a new favorite! Even if you like one voice a lot, switch to another one sometimes. You could pick a funny voice or a voice from a famous movie.
While Waze Celebrity Voices bring a unique and entertaining twist to navigation, the advancements in text-to-speech technology are equally transformative. An excellent example is the SpeechActors. Unlike Waze, which uses recorded celebrity voices, SpeechActors converts written text into natural-sounding audio.
Integrating advanced Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology, like that offered by SpeechActors, significantly enhances audio experiences in various applications. SpeechActors is an innovative online tool that converts written text into spoken words, using highly realistic and natural-sounding voices.
Being able to mute / lower the volume of the navigator's voice (siri) was crucial and very useful especially if you are also using your phone to play the music that we all pay so much money for (streaming services, ownership rights / licenses to albums / individual songs, etc.) - we want to be able to listen to the music were paying [potentially apple] for AND safely navigate to places that we have or haven't been to before using the native apple maps app!
It was wayyy better before when you included these options, apple. I'm surprised more people aren't complaining because millions of car owners commute with apple navigation while listening to podcasts / music
I hope they fix this soon. I might return here and post about my experience with google maps if it works out to be a viable long term solution to this problem we're all facing. Until then, drive safe, and good luck!
It works somehow if you put the ringtone to maximum before navigation start. But it is a nonsense. If you forget to put it back, it damages your ears if somebody calls you later. It is a shame for Apple to have eliminated the voice volume button and a reason to use another navigation system. Best of them in my opinion is tomtom go which takes you automatically around traffic jams and has a voice volume adjustment possibility. You can set navigation voice volume as a percentage of your music volume. Its worth paying a small sum for an annual subscription. Also, you can add Siri shortcuts for voice input of favorites, so you do not have to choose them manually. Mercedes live traffic for a price of around 80 USD p.a. btw also uses tomtom go.......
None of these fixes work for me. I have an iPhone 13 pro and volume controls on my car while navigating make no difference as suggested nor does using volume buttons on my phone while in Siri setting or maps or google maps.. I guess we have to be shouted at to use navigation for now on. Sigh.
Same here. I am fed up with this and use only tomtom go app in carplay. There, you can set at least voice volume in relation to music. So whatever your music volume is, the turn by turn voice is in relation. In google maps, you can at least choose voice volume between low, medium or high. In Apple maps zero! Reference to the volume button is useless, as it affects voice AND music. To me, it is simply not understandable why the voice control button in ios 14 was cancelled. Result: I simply do not use apple maps anymore. Hope everbody else does. There are plenty of functioning navigation apps out there!
What you wrote is not true for my iPhone 12 running iOS 15. When I adjust the volume in Apple Music to a low level, the volume of the Maps guidance also becomes too low to hear. There is nothing contextual about the volume buttons, at least not on my phone. The same thing occurs if I use the slider on the screen (in the Apple Music app) to lower the volume. The Maps voice volume goes down as well. This is extremely frustrating.
I only drive with tomtom go. Not only is it the best navi to avoid jams, but you can set voice volume in relation to music volume in percent, allow street names and numbers or not and so on. Simply the best and the only one to automatically re-route you around traffic jams!
You must adjust the volume on the device from which you are hearing Siri talk. For example, to raise the volume for navigation on car play, while Siri is announcing directions turn up the volume on your car stereo. Same for AirPods, turn up volume on AirPods while Siri is announcing directions.
Its a nightmare to deal with such problems with a worldwide reputed company like apple. I am fed up with this and only use tomtom go app. The price p. A. is reasonable and its the only iphone app that automatically reroutes you around traffic jams. It is also the basis for Mercedes live traffic that speaks for itself and is miriades better than apple and google maps! I only use default navi of my mercedes or tomtom go.
No way. If you do so, the music gets to a level that it damages your ears. Each and every navigation app has a volume adjustment possibility, independent from other sounds, except of course Apple after IOS 15. Its simply a shame. I would fire the maps program manager on the spot
you think you are right? if someone like Apple does not realize such a basic issue itself and actively eliminates a volume adjustment button (a basic requirement for a decent navigation system) in ios 15, I consider a report as useless! I will just not use Apple maps anymore. Fullstop. This made me look around and I found better apps. Much better.....
Thanks. I am sorry to bother you, but somebody at Apple must have removed the volume button! As a product manager, one is supposed to know the product. This is not a bug but a product change. And: I am again sorry but in my opinion, google (for ios!) is worse than Apple, even though it offers 3 voice volume settings. It constantly talkes and repeats itself. Tomtom go beats all of them, and so does the default MBUX in my mercedes with live traffic. Tomtom to my knowledge is the only ios-navigator that automatically reroutes you around traffic jams. Google for Android does too, but not for ios. Waze does but is otherwise bad.
My wife and were driving in the car today, running some errands and we had our GPS turned on and giving directions to help find the place we were headed. The standard voice was getting a little monotonous though because we decided to take a diversion and get something to drink. When all of a sudden, both my wife and just started talking about how neat it would be if we could get our favorite Disney characters to talk to us and give us directions. I mean, how cool would it be to hear any of the following:
So, Disney should send a few of their voice actors to the studio for a half day and record the 60 or so common sayings for GPS devices, then release these for sell on their web-site or others. Or, they could even partner with a specific GPS manufacturer and build a Disney-branded GPS device with the voices already built-in.
After publishing this, I saw where TomTom has recorded several voices from Star Wars, including Darth Vader and Yoda. They made a couple of videos advertising the recording sessions which are quite funny and worth a watch. This would seem to prove that my idea for Disney doing this might also be a good idea.
I did a manual upgrade through the Ford downloads Maps 2.20. I have previously upgraded to Sync 3.4.21194. Everything seems to work reasonably well except I have no voice response to any navigation commands.
From reading about similar errors it seems I may be missing some Navigation voice files. Does this sound correct? If so, my question is - can I use the Cyan Labs downloader to install only these files? Should I select a Maps Only update to 2.20?
Does anyone know if it's possible to change the voice of the navigation speaker? I know other systems allow this. I cannot stand the voice of the woman telling me directions. I won't be able to use that feature if I can't select a better voice. Couldn't find any reference to this in the manual. Help!
I use map box navigation turn by turn! I need to add waypoints to the navigation map so that they show up in the active navigation state! I added a layer with points to the map using the addSpots method. Points are displayed on the map as I need. But a problem arose: when I close the navigation and then open it again, the voice instructions are duplicated and superimposed on one another, the more times I close and open the navigation, the more voice layers!
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