A computer voice, also known as text-to-speech, uses a text-to-speech program to convert written text. For example, an instruction like “Turn right”, into the sound of a human voice. Your TomTom device makes use of text-to-speech technology to generate computer voices.

Computer voices can read a wide variety of things that a recorded human voice cannot, including street names. This makes spoken instructions much easier to follow.

For example, the spoken instruction using a human voice is limited to "Turn right". The computer voice will say, "Turn right, Church Street."

	Computer voices are available on select TomTom models and are not available in all languages.

Among other things, computer voices can also read aloud the following:

Street (road) numbers Street (road) names Incoming text (SMS) messages Traffic warnings Weather information POI warnings Tips Tutorials

The text-to-speech program looks at the whole sentence to make sure that the sound you hear is as close to the real thing as possible. The program is also able to recognize and quite accurately pronounce foreign place and street names. For example, the English voice can read French street names.

Enabling Text-to-speech (computer voice) on your TomTom