On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:59:21 +0000, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:29:50 GMT, Eddie wrote:

Is there a marine GPS that talks to you? I like to hear, "hey dummy,
turn to port at the next slough"
Well, maybe not that but how about "you will turn to port at the next
slough in 30 seconds"
Or something like that.

I kind of doubt it. The mapping structure is different - you navigate with
a marine chart much differently than you do with a road map - the concepts
are different.

Besides, marine maps are being constantly updated with changes - you
couldn't keep up.

The question is why you would want it to do that for you. Seems a little
redundant.

Personnally, I wouldn't want it. I'd rather trust my brain to filter
information than some programmer's, who is sitting on dry land somewhere.

However, I was curious when I saw GpsDrive uses festival for speech
output. Reading the software's feature page, it uses sound output for
direction, speed, radar warning, GPS signal, distance to destination,
Battery level, access point, not for "directions". Festival is, among
other things, a text to speech program. I'm guessing it wouldn't be too
difficult to add something like "Next waypoint bearing . . ., distance .
.. ., ETA is . . ., etc.", but then, why would you want to?

http://www.kraftvoll.at/software/features.shtml