Test of Text-to-Speech (TTS) Abbreviations in Waze Clients

by **orbitc** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:25 am

I agree with Alan. Few of us tested these with few different combination. The Best option, IMO, should be either with single quotes or double quotes.

by **AlanOfTheBerg** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:27 am

orbitc wrote:I agree with Alan. Few of us tested these with few different combination. The Best option, IMO, should be either with single quotes or double quotes.

I like single. Because they are thinner.

by **xteejx** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:30 am

For the love of god please do NOT change how cardinals currently work. It's all well and good talking about changing things, but remember the US isn't the only country that will see any changes Waze make to the TTS.
Besides, English comes from here ;-p

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by **txemt** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:32 am

orbitc wrote:I agree with Alan. Few of us tested these with few different combination. The Best option, IMO, should be either with single quotes or double quotes.

I'd have to disagree. How many street signs or exit ramps do you see that have a "" or '' in them? I understand that we're trying to get Waze to say the actual letter instead of a direction, so I would advocate more of the period.

by **Wajo357** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:33 am

txemt wrote:
orbitc wrote:I agree with Alan. Few of us tested these with few different combination. The Best option, IMO, should be either with single quotes or double quotes.

I'd have to disagree. How many street signs or exit ramps do you see that have a "" or '' in them? I understand that we're trying to get Waze to say the actual letter instead of a direction, so I would advocate more of the period.

What I'm saying is that the period was tested, and with only one letter, the period still sounded out as the direction and not the letter.

by **orbitc** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:35 am

Once again I'm with Alan. I prefer single quotes as well.

I don't think Waze Dev. changing anything yet. This is just is trying to fix these roads with N, W, S, E letters manually. This way we get better directions from Waze.

by **txemt** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:36 am

Wajo357 wrote:
txemt wrote:
orbitc wrote:I agree with Alan. Few of us tested these with few different combination. The Best option, IMO, should be either with single quotes or double quotes.

I'd have to disagree. How many street signs or exit ramps do you see that have a "" or '' in them? I understand that we're trying to get Waze to say the actual letter instead of a direction, so I would advocate more of the period.

What I'm saying is that the period was tested, and with only one letter, the period still sounded out as the direction and not the letter.

I've tested the period, too and didn't get a direction. I'm waiting for my next test results to hit the client to find something else out about the period. I did have quotes around a lower case "s" and it looked really funny (had a few URs about it, too).

by **Wajo357** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:39 am

txemt wrote:
I've tested the period, too and didn't get a direction. I'm waiting for my next test results to hit the client to find something else out about the period. I did have quotes around a lower case "s" and it looked really funny (had a few URs about it, too).

Agree that double quotes look weird. Did you try something like [Ave S.]? For me, it came up as [Ave South].

by **txemt** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:44 am

Wajo357 wrote:
Agree that double quotes look weird. Did you try something like [Ave S.]? For me, it came up as [Ave South].

I'm waiting for:
Sp
A.T.&T.
Alt
St. Middle St

Those were added last night, so in a couple of days, they'll hit the client and I can test them out. I'm going to try out some combos of "S 1st St W" to see what I get.

by **orbitc** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:23 am

I'm waiting for:
Sp
A.T.&T.
Alt
St. Middle St

Those were added last night, so in a couple of days, they'll hit the client and I can test them out. I'm going to try out some combos of "S 1st St W" to see what I get.

Are we getting mix messages?
Wajo357 tested with Avenue S. that yield South.
Someone else tested that it worked.
Perhaps, the reason for this is that we were testing a single letter. More concern with the directional letters. Not combinations of letters like A.T.T.