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Google maps has the most pleasant and human sounding voice approach I’ve encountered in any such system. All other gps guidance voices sound incredibly crude a

Google maps has the most pleasant and human sounding voice approach I’ve encountered in any such system. All other gps guidance voices sound incredibly crude and mechanical in comparison.

fudged71 9y ago
In my city I can recognize that google has two different 'voices' or voice libraries. They sound slightly different. I'm curious how that works and why it's not all done with one.
- joeyo 9y ago
  I've noticed this as well. My working hypothesis is that one is for high(er) bandwidth and the other for low bandwidth situations.
  - gusmd 9y ago
    My understanding is that the "low-fi", more robotic one uses an offline TTS engine for when there is no connectivity. When connectivity is good, it will switch to better, cloud-based one.
goshx 9y ago
The Brazilian Portuguese voice is not that great.