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Sunday 13 October
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Hi there,

I selected a female voice and hear a male voice during a voyage. Any solutions?

Kind Regards. 

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Sun 13 Oct, 18:01

Something else I did not know, that one can hear a voice - from where?  Does the voice give turn-by-turn instructions for routes?

Mon 14 Oct, 21:08

Yes it does. The audio is fed via Bluetooth direct to my hearing aids. Otherwise the audio will be from your smartphone speakers.

Mon 14 Oct, 22:18

Interesting, thanks. Sorry about your deafness.

Tue 15 Oct, 16:44

Can you say if the audio uses the same wording as appears on the cue sheets?

Tue 15 Oct, 23:26

I'm not sure Ken but I would think so. It's very short and actually too fast for my brain. I often have to stop and look at the map just to be sure. TBH I've never looked at the cue sheets. When would they be useful?

Wed 16 Oct, 00:05

Raymond, I've said somewhere else, not sure if it's on this forum, but I only ever use cue sheets, never my Wahoo for routes. I simply cannot see the routes on my tiny Yahoo screen. I believe RWGPS is working on technology which will allow their routes to be shown on Android and I assume Apple phones with turn-by-turns which will then allow a much larger screen viewing. In the meantime, I print all my cues and attach them in a plastic cover to my handlebars - actually my aero bars. So, instead of trying to make out turns on a far too small a screen I can read the routes with additional cues, such as 'turn left into X street at the big red house, or whatever stands out as a prompt is at the junction I need. 

Your system - or rather cycle.travel's system -giving voice prompts might be an alternative.

Wed 16 Oct, 00:09

If it was possible to attach a picture on this forum, I'd show what my cue sheet set-up looks like.

 BTW, using cue sheets is quite common in the Audax world, which I inhabit.

Wed 16 Oct, 14:54

ken: if you download the cycle.travel app from either the Google Play or Apple App Store, you can get a full map and turn by turn directions on your phone :)

Wed 16 Oct, 20:47

It seems the original poster on this thread never received an answer, is that because the panel recognized she was not real?

Thu 17 Oct, 16:40

I didn't answer because I didn't know the answer (I have the voice feature turned off in the App)

Thu 17 Oct, 17:39

For me it works as I’d expect. A couple of things that might help narrow this down: what language is your phone usually set to? (e.g. British English, or US English, or French, or…) Can you provide a link to a journey where this happens?