garyd9

There doesn't seem to be any other English choices other than US-English. I tried changing the LANGUAGE to UK English, but I was still stuck with US-English TTS. Oh, well... the more I play with android auto, the more I suspect I'll be using that more for most navigation. The "built-in" navi will be useful for those times I'm out of coverage... It's really a shame that Pioneer put such garbage navigation in their "top of the line" product.

I had something similar happen with a different HU a few year ago. It had nothing whatsoever to do with what phone I was connecting via BT. It turned out that the ipod was dying... Try taking your ipod out of the car, and just leaving it unplugged from anything for a couple of hours. Then go back and see if pressing on control buttons (menu, whatever) to "wake up" the ipod works properly. If not, it's the iPod. In my case, it would bring up the ipod in either a "battery is too low" state, or with a message saying I had to plug it into a computer to restore the ipod s/w. Good lu

No, I haven't (yet) tried any of the alternate TTS languages. I did call Pioneer about it, submitted a ticket to them, and then submitted a ticket to "naviextras" as well. Pioneer responded that they'd have someone look into it. naviextra's did nothing but piss me off. Here was their (naviextras') response (cut/paste) (Note that Pioneer told me that they get the TTS files from naviextras.) So... I guess two capital letters like "PA" are pronounced as a single syllable, but "EB" is treated as an abbreviation. Unfortunately, it's treated as a computer term abbreviation and not a n

I think that was one of the promised features for the so-called AVICSync vaporware (but I'm not sure.) If you are using android auto (or car play?) this would be a trivial thing to accomplish (using the smartphone navi software instead of the stuff built into the head unit.)

I purchased an AVIC8100 NEX and installed it in my Mazda CX-5 early this past weekend. Here are some initial thoughts: First, and this drives me insane, the TTS voice for the built in navigation sucks. Badly. Not only does it mispronounce nearly every street name, but it also seems to have a very hard time with abbreviations. For example, when approaching "exit 10" for "I-76 east bound", what it says is "Exit 10 dot I seventy six exabyte" (I'm guessing that the TTS thinks "EB" is an abbreviation for "Exabyte" I have no idea why it has to say "dot" after exit numbers. As well, it's a