nice to have & easy: speech synth driven turn by turn instructions

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it's quite frustrating as a nokia maemo user seeing the turn by turn 
instructions written on the screen, when one command would actually speak them. 
i'm sure this would apply to other platforms as well. 

could we add an option to have a dialog box to enter our favourite speek 
command, e.g. for me 'espeak -v mb-en1' (i use the mbrola english voice mb-en1, 
but a ui dialog to allow me to change the voice would be better )

maybe as a far future feature we could support fancy recorded celebrity voices 
etc. but for now, most meamo users would be over the moon with an espeak option.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bugspamm...@yahoo.com on 5 Aug 2011 at 11:33

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here are screenshots from another community written navigation app which does 
use espeak. the screenshots show the various options for when voice 
instructions should be given.

Original comment by bugspamm...@yahoo.com on 5 Aug 2011 at 12:28

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another nice algorithm would be if distance >1km then give warnings by dividing 
the distance by 2 and taking the integer up to a point, e.g.

after 10km turn right
after 5km turn right
after 2km turn right
after 1km turn right
after 500 m turn right
after 250 m turn right 

then the options in the screenshots above kick in

Original comment by bugspamm...@yahoo.com on 5 Aug 2011 at 12:40