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

[GizmoGuy411]

OK its all St are now saying Saint. Wtf guys? The Street Paul's Street I could live with as Saint is only some roads, but now every Street is Saint, seriously sort it out and revert all recent changes to the UK TTS. Or better yet, give one of us access to the rules on Vocalizer and we can do it in a few minutes!

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Send a message about this "Support" and see what happens. They don't read this thread.

On the other hand, I have been in contact recently with Waze about this and a few other issues, and they are looking for a possible solution.

I doubt that giving us direct access to the Vocalizer interface will be a possibility however. They would probably have to build an interface to it.

To make matters worse, the issue may not be something solvable with Vocalizer. There are actually two issues at hand. One is the overall TTS database and customized "mobile app" database from Nunance, and another is the exception rule system that Vocalizer can adjust for individual things.

Since I've never found any public documentation for the Nuance Vocalizer, so I really do not know how it interacts with the databases, nor what exceptions it can handle.

[GizmoGuy411]

St at the end is now saying Saint. Will look into this at my end as I didn't name it and it might have a dot.

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What "voice" are you using for Waze? In the US we use Nuance's "Samantha" or "Tom", however I suspect that the voice(s) for the UK, may not use the same TTS databases.

[floppyrod84]

Using Daniel UK. Not tried the female one it sounds rubbish but I think you may be right. Question is, why has someone at Waze again messed around with the TTS settings? No one asked for this change and AFAIK the St at the end being said as Street would apply to the US as well, so if you guys aren't affected, I would surmise that you are indeed correct that voice translations/abbreviations are voice specific and not global, although there will be global settings.

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[littlestlou]

Are you sure, because I could swear that it has been that way for a while. We have a ton of county roads in NW Ohio, and we have slowly been changing them to "CR xxx" as we canvas the rural areas. "CR" does get pronounced correctly as "County Road", and not to be confused with "Country Road".

Gizmo, I guess it's possible but I know for sure that CONST ZN and Co Rd happened at the same time. I cannot say for sure about the release prior to 3.5 b/c I had so many GPS issues that I went back to the release before last....

Regardless, I will start using CR. Thanks for the hint.

[jasonh300]

Are you sure, because I could swear that it has been that way for a while. We have a ton of county roads in NW Ohio, and we have slowly been changing them to "CR xxx" as we canvas the rural areas. "CR" does get pronounced correctly as "County Road", and not to be confused with "Country Road".

Gizmo, I guess it's possible but I know for sure that CONST ZN and Co Rd happened at the same time. I cannot say for sure about the release prior to 3.5 b/c I had so many GPS issues that I went back to the release before last....

Regardless, I will start using CR. Thanks for the hint.

How about CR-##?

[GizmoGuy411]

How about CR-##?

Last February it worked. For some reason I had an "Add" notation for it. Guess I should retest it.

Now that the tile turn around time has shortened I need to test the rest of the list. Hopefully before mid January.

[KB_Steveo]

Tlwy says something like "Tl-whY"

(Line 622)

[KB_Steveo]

Co Rd is now pronounced as "Coe Road" and not "County Road". Also contrary to naming conventions on the wiki. Again, this is a new issue, not a problem up until this release...

Are you sure, because I could swear that it has been that way for a while. We have a ton of county roads in NW Ohio, and we have slowly been changing them to "CR xxx" as we canvas the rural areas. "CR" does get pronounced correctly as "County Road", and not to be confused with "Country Road".

+1

Wisconsin county roads have been pronounced "Coh Road" since I started using Waze 10 months ago. We've been changing them to CR-xxx though (still works with the dash)

[littlestlou]

Regarding the infamous Coe Roads, I am almost positive that up until a couple of months ago, everything was pronounced correctly. Perhaps I am going a little nutty though. Either way, thanks for the tip on CR, etc.

[GizmoGuy411]

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Wisconsin county roads have been pronounced "Coh Road" since I started using Waze 10 months ago. We've been changing them to CR-xxx though (still works with the dash)

Thanks for reconfirming that.