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Selecting a voice

To change the voice being used by your TomTom GO, tap Change voice in
the Preferences menu and select a voice from the list.
Your TomTom GO has two different kinds of voices:
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• Computer voices
• Human voices
Note: Human voices only provide spoken instructions.
How do computer voices work?
Your TomTom GO makes use of text-to-speech technology to generate
computer voices. A text-to-speech program converts written text, for example
an instruction like "Turn right", into the sound of a human voice.
The text-to-speech program looks at the whole sentence to make sure that the
sound you hear is as close to the real thing as possible. The program is also
able to recognize and quite accurately pronounce foreign place and street
names. For example, the English voice can read French street names.
Note: If you select a Human voice, this will only able to announce commands,
but not street names. If you would like street names to be announced, you will
need to select a computer voice.

Internal and external speakers

Your TomTom GO contains a high quality speaker. This is used to play all the
sounds on your GO unless you connect to external speakers.
You can connect external speakers to your GO in the following ways:
• Using an audio cable.
Note: If your car stereo has a line-in connector, you can play sound from your
GO through your car speakers.
• Connecting a Bluetooth® Hi-Fi headset or speakers.
• Tuning the FM Transmitter in your GO to use your car radio speakers.

Using more than one speaker

You can select different speakers to be used for specific events, such as using
the internal speaker for TomTom GO instructions and external speakers for
hearing handsfree phone calls and listening to music.
• Internal speaker
• Bluetooth Hi-Fi device
• Line-out (audio cable)
• FM to your car radio
These are generated by your GO. They provide spoken instructions
while you are driving and can pronounce street names and announce
messages, traffic reports, weather reports, tips and tutorials.
These are recorded by an actor.
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