TomTom GO, User Manual

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• Human voices
This type of voice is recorded by an actor. It gives you spoken instructions
but cannot read anything else aloud.
How do computer voices work?
Your TomTom GO 910 makes use of text-to-speech technology to generate
computer voices. A text-to-speech program converts written text, for example
an instruction like “Turn right”, into the sound of a human voice.
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.