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Originally Posted by mscion View Post
Kind of funny you mentioned prefering Sygic as I recently had the opposite thought! I happen to notice that voice quality had improved for some reason on ovi maps. At least initially, when you hear it say something like, "Turn Left" the voice is very clear and sounds reasonable. Indeed I had thought it was nearly as good as Sygic at giving the turn instruction. But, then if you have the street name enabled the voice can sound a bit garbled and the timing can be bad. Its like it is an entirely different process going on simulataneously, and, infact, on occasion sounds like a different person talking at the same time the turn instruction is given. Is this common? Any suggestions to improve on it. Anyways, I have CloudGPS, Modrana, Ovi Maps and Sygic Mobile Maps on my N900. I find I like them all for different reasons but usually prefer to use the non commercial ones.
Ovi map enhancements use nokia's own voice files for most of the voice navigation hence it appears nice and clean. For street names, it uses espeak, which does sound a bit robotish, hence the massive difference in quality. There is information in this thread to make espeak less robotic, and some members got good results with it so you can try and see if it helps

talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=997531&postcount=409
 

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