I bet I’ve answered this dozens of times in our comments, so this is a long overdue post. Not that many years ago, most auto GPS units didn’t speak street names; you’d hear “turn right in 1/4 mile.” Nowadays, most models have text-to-speech capabilities and will say something like, “turn right on Oak Street in 1/4 mile.”
Sometimes though, they get messed up, usually because the owner has changed the voice and/or language settings. To fix this, go into the settings and look for voices that are labeled something like “speaks street names” or “computerized” or “TTS” or “text-to-speech.” Change to one of those voices and you should be good to go.
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Haha. I can’t figure out a way to turn-off the street names reading. Anyone who has a GPS that won’t speak street names must have figured out how to “uncheck” a radio button!
Unless…. they have a Nuvi 760 like I do. Actually, if it happens to my 760 it should happen to any in the 7×0 line.
If you’re afflicted with a slow startup, and then turn your unit off while it’s booting and back on (while it’s connected to the powered cradle), then it resets the language settings for that session. Extremely annoying . . .
Unless it has been fixed American English-Michelle will not give the street names on my Montana 600 with city navigator loaded, but American English-Jill works fine.
Jimmy, you are correct. I looked into the settings of my GPS and I see American English-Michelle will not give the street names (Garmin model 2455LT is what I have). However, under the name of American English-Jill it says “speaks street names”. I just now went in and changed it to the voice of Jill. Jimmy, thanks for pointing out the name of the voice that speaks the street names. And thanks to Rich Owings for the instructions on how to change the setting to street names. Had it not been for this website, I probably would’ve just been stuck with it saying “turn left” and “turn right” for who knows how long. lol.