Re: question about Earphones, earbones, iphones and satnavs
Interesting, the different ways we characterize programs. Our talking microwave has a female voice, so I would say, "She's too damn happy."
As for your question, SIRI will give you directions as you go, like a car's GPS does. "In 50 feet, turn left onto S Mason street." "In 60 feet, the destination is on your left." She won't say things like what street you're coming up to, just directions such as, "In a quarter mile, turn right onto north College avenue." She won't tell you that there's a street between you and there, or how close the street is. You'll have to anticipate street crossings on your own. Google maps is more for listing out the whole route before hand, but again, it doesn't do street crossings. I'm having trouble getting Apple maps to show me all the directions at once, so that's why I use Google. Apple maps will speak on its own as you go, but you can also review the direc tions with voiceover. IF you're approaching the destination, the auto speech might only call out at 60 feet, but you can use voiceover to read as you hit 50, 40, 30... so on. Sorry for my American measurements!
Adding on to this, my method of attacking a new route is to really look it up good on Google maps first. I know the layout of my city pretty well, so I just need to know what streets to look for. If I'm in a new place, I might use something like Ariadne or BlindSquare on the way to tell me the names of the streets I'm approaching between my starting point and destination. I can remember the directions, so it's not so much SIRI I need on the way as landmarks. Where am I, what is this address? Am I close? Heading the right direction? Am I on the right street? Apple maps doesn't do that.
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