How to make Garmin GPS to speak street names.if your Garmin Nuvi 255 does not speak the street names during the real time travel directions, you can update it. For example, it says “Turn left in 500 feet,” if you have the old gamrin nuvi, you need upgrade to a Garmin Nuvi 350 or 360 (older models), or 205 0r 255 (newer models). for example If you purchased a Garmin Nuvi 360 gps, you can make it speak and say the street names with simple steps: firstly turn the GPS unit on, make sure you are running the latest firmware update on your GPS, then click on “Settings” then “Locale” and then select the icon with the mouth next to it that allows you to select a voice, then Options that end in (TTS) will say the street names, options that do not have (TTS) will only give you the turn-by-turn directions. *TTS stands for “text-to-speech“.

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