Text-to-Speech - Maestro 3140 OnlyThe Maestro 3140 comes with a text-to-speech engine that reads street names off which can be helpful when navigating. This is a major feature that is distinctive versus the Maestro 3100, so you need to ask yourself if it’s worth the extra money to get this unit over the Maestro 3100.
More and more entry-level units are going text-to-speech, and I think that it’s a great trend. That’s a good thing in my mind, as I think that by having the street name read aloud, it makes things easier on you, the driver, when navigating in unfamiliar territory where streets come one after another.
The performance is the Text-to-speech engine in the Maestro is good, but has one flaw that makes it an aggravation; small and annoying, not un-functional. The good news is that the voice is clear and fairly accurate in reading a lot of road names. When announcing turns the unit uses the non-text-to-speech phrases then tacks on the street name at the end, in a different voice. So you get:Voice One: “Turn in 400 yards”Voice Two: “Spring Street”
Sometimes that phrasing is hardly separated and sometimes that phrasing is separated by enough of a pause to think that the GPS had to turn the page on an imaginary script to read the next word. Unfortunate mis-step here.
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