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

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Edit: no issue.

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I have a user reporting that voice said Drive instead of Doctor for this segment:
https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... s=83508873
called "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr St S"

I see that Jr probably needs a period, but why would Dr. say drive?

They were turning right to go north on that segment, and they said it was the default voice.

Can you confirm this has been fixed now please?

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This wasn't my report, it was from a UR, so I don't know if it is working correctly or not. I will try to have another local editor try it out if I can. Thx

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I have a user saying that Flaghole Rd is being pronounced as Flag Hill Rd. Maybe the TTS is seeing it as Fla-ghole rather than Flag-Hole, and that's making it sound like Flagil. At any rate, is there a way to test this?

https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... st=4385513

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There was an issue which we fixed, when was the report from.
Tell the reporter to navigate to cc@tts, and it should work properly after that.

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It was from June 24. I will provite that fix to them. Thx

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I have a user reporting that voice said Drive instead of Doctor for this segment:
https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... s=83508873
called "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr St S"

I see that Jr probably needs a period, but why would Dr. say drive?

They were turning right to go north on that segment, and they said it was the default voice.

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Hello, I have a user report that states that Bradenton, FL, is being pronounced Brahd-en-ton, instead of the way it should, which is Braid-en-ton. Braid is indeed the correct way. Is this something that can be changed? Thx!

Theoretically yes it can be changed, but the change will affect the entire country anywhere that word is used. Therefore we must first know if this is something pronounced differently in different regions.

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Is there a method for doing this? I see there's a Bradenton Rd in Indiana, Bradenton Ave in OH, for example. No idea how it's said there, though.

Thx

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Hello, I have a user report that states that Bradenton, FL, is being pronounced Brahd-en-ton, instead of the way it should, which is Braid-en-ton. Braid is indeed the correct way. Is this something that can be changed? Thx!

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Label: Geo Wash Pkwy
TTS: George Washington Parkway.

Any abbreviation other than the standard N, E, W, S, St, Rd, Ave, Dr., etc., needs to include a period. For example,

Label: Dr = TTS: Drive
Label: Dr. (note the period) = TTS: doctor

Label: Geo. Wash. Pkwy = TTS: George Washington Pkwy

Rationale: "Wash" is not wholly uncommon word in street names.

I picked Geo Wash Pkwy on purpose because it's such a bad example. Trying to code the TTS for every situation like this would be a mistake. Like I said, we need a TTS override field where we can enter what is said, and still allow us to match the labels to the BGS.

(Sorry for not keeping up with the conversation, it seems that forum notifications are among the list of things that are breaking lately.)

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Any automated solution is going to result in a lot of one-off or edge cases that don't work correctly. I think the best solution is to provide a TTS input under the Label input. Use the default TTS rules if no values are provided, and show the expanded value. And if "customize TTS" or some other checkbox is selected, allow the map editor to put in plain English (or their language of choice) into the TTS box. E.g.:

Label: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St N
TTS: Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Street North

Label: N St.
TTS: N Street

Label: Geo Wash Pkwy
TTS: George Washington Parkway

This way the label can match the sign, but the editor can fix the TTS if we see the default isn't correct.

[BlueTiger68]

Nixa is being pronounced as individual letters N I X A.

Should be NIX-ah

Reference segment here

Thanks