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Question: How is the voice recognition now? As of 8/18/2013
Document: voice recognition is poor, i think it should be more friendly. it takes little longer to get signal, rest is ok.
This unit does a good job with directions but the &#34;voice recognition&#34; feature is completely useless.Presumably TomTom knows the voice feature is useless, yet advertises it and adds a price premium.
He likes the voice recognition option. He can tell it to find the nearest gas station, for instance, and it will pull it up on the map. So, he traded me the Garmin for the TomTom and we're both happy. I've averaged the rating stars between my husband and me.Edit:My husband has gone back to using the Garmin. The TomTom will no longer turn on at all. He can have it plugged in to his car and it still won't work.
This 2435 would be the third Tom Tom purchased. Can't get updates because the memory is at capacity. Can't update the lifetime maps for various reasons. Customer service isn't any help because the person trying to help is illiterate. With the current update, I can't use voice recognition because it's not available in this country (USA). So, I've purchased a Garmin for my wife....no problems with that device.
The voice recognition is something else. It's amazing! It understood what we said with the windows open and driving at a pretty quick rate! Even my favorite bluetooth headset cannot do this. My wife and I were VERY impressed. Back to the battle.....I should note that today was the bike marathon, and we could have potentially gotten caught in a TON of traffic. Both GPS units took me pretty much the same way, but the TomTom had the more accurate ride.
Not worth the money spent. Very difficult and time consuming to set up. The features that made the devise attractive on paper don't work well. Voice recognition poor, maps poor, traffic poor. Even the hated maps on the iPhone OS6 are better than this Tom Tom. I couldn't speak an address I was looking for, so I typed it. "No such number exist," the devise said, "Would I like to use a cross street?"
No matter how many times I gave a voice command the wrong address popped up. I finally called customer service and they saidthat happens sometimes if you have an accent. I asked them if they thought I had an accent and they replied that they couldn't hereany trace of an accent and that I should return the item. (I was born and live in the States.) I returned the item and purchased a Garminfor the same price and it works great - Especially the voice recognition.
I owned an older model of the TomTom GO and I can see the improvements in both hardware and software over the intervening years. The voice recognition works much better. The interface is more intuitive. The route calculation is much faster.I briefly used a Garmin which I had been given as a gift and although I am reluctant to compare the two since I believe the Garmin was a cheaper, no-frills model, I still have to say I prefer the TomTom.
Pros:1. Glass touchscreen - this is awesome! It allows you to tap the display instead of mash the display.2. Voice recognition - works pretty well with addresses, making travel easier3. Magnetic dock - this is also awesome! I take my unit out of the window when I turn off my car. This is easy off and on the mount.4. Lifetime maps. Obviously.5. Traffic - one caveat though... the traffic receiver only picks up traffic information in urban areas.
However, voice entry of addresses was disabled. Got message that these maps did not support voice address entry! Emailed TomTom, got stock non-helpful response. Called, spent 2 hours on phone, could not fix it, so returned & received replacement. Tried updating the replacement again, and exactly the same thing happened. Called TOMTOM, and after another 2 hours, got RMA, item was replaced again. This time, since I like the speech recognition, I did not update it.
Answer: Had an older model. Voice is better on this one