[access-uk] Re: tom tom
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:19:22 -0000
Hi James,
I am one of those who is very happy with Wayfinder. The trick is to know
Talks pretty well, as well as Wayfinder. For example, as you are travelling
along, just hit Talks Up Arrow to get your current location. This will be
reported as Next Street, Current Street, and the distance between in Y for
Yards if you have that setting, F for Feet, or Mi for Miles. It is not that
Wayfinder doesn't work well, it is how you interpret the screens, but it
sounds like you may need something like Trekker, which to me, is too big,
and the amount of chatter it gives off would drive me crazy!
All the best
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
James O'Dell
Sent: 18 January 2006 22:52
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: tom tom
Hi Terry
I think Wayfinder might be the way to go with this if you want to try it, as
Wayfinder is officially supported by Talks. I have to be honest and say
that I'm really not having much success with it. The information it
provides would seem to be more relevant to cars (even in pedestrian mode),
and I haven't personally found the support of Wayfinder to be enough to get
me around unfamiliar environments. Whether this is just because I've
<mailto:I@ve> led a sheltered life :) and did very badly in geography at
school, because I'm expecting too much of it, because I need something a bit
more "chatty" than Wayfinder (like the Trekker), or because the Wayfinder
software really isn't up to much as a mobility aid, I can't say.
I set up a list for people to discuss mainstream GPs technology and its use
by visually impaired people, which you can subscribe to by sending a message
to
mainstream-gps-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with the word "subscribe" in the subject line. So far we have a lot of
members and hardly any traffic, so either everyone else has sussed it and is
quite happy, or there are a lot of people like me, the list moderator,
without much of an idea.
Hope this helps
James
----- Original Message -----
From: terry <mailto:terrycooper@xxxxxxxxxxx> cooper
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:40 PM
Subject: [access-uk] tom tom
Hi
Does anyone know whether its possible to use the tom tom sat nav software
with talks, on the 6630?
I can't get talks to speak anything when I go into the tom tom programme,
that has been installed on my phone.
The software does work, because my sighted friend is able to use it, with a
Bluetooth gps receiver. Unfortunately, talks won't speak anything.
Any comments welcome.
Terry
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