Apropos of not much I was just driving to an unfamiliar location and using the car Satnav. I was reminded why I actively avoid it. The text to speech mangles al

Apropos of not much I was just driving to an unfamiliar location and using the car Satnav. I was reminded why I actively avoid it. The text to speech mangles almost every street name, even completely commonplace English language names. "Gracefield" became Gra - ss - fie - lid or something. I implemented the simple Bethesda Naval Laboratory text to phoneme algorithm in the early 1980s based on a Steve Ciarcia article in Byte magazine and I'm sure it was better. Also I hear the OP on the subject of updates. I bought this car new less than 4 years ago, the Satnav regularly scolds me at ignition time to do an update - the dealer looked at me as if I was crazy "No we can't do updates - you should try and figure out how to do it yourself".