Garmin C340, C550 Stopped Announcing Street Names?

We recently heard of a few instances where people’s Garmin C-series StreetPilots stopped speaking street names; they lose their Text to Speech (TTS) capability.

All of a sudden they will just say “Turn Left” instead of “Turn Left on Main Street”. This is often an easy fix. You need to change the voice in the set-up. From the Main Screen, tap on the settings button at the bottom of the screen, tap on Voices, and then pick a voice with a person’s name after it.

Only the voices with a person’s name after it is a Text to Speech (TTS) capable voice (i.e. American English – Jill). If it is just a plain “American English”, then it won’t do TTS and tell you what the name of the street is to turn on.

Thanks to atcMonkE for sending this in.

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