We want to pronounce correctly 🗣 the name of your avenue, your street or entrance: you can help us! 💪

Let us know about mispronunciations of your street names by submitting your corrections here 👇 https://t.co/4y7SpNDlGn

— Waze France (@Waze_France) November 28, 2022

Since its launch in 2010, Waze has established itself as one of the most important apps for motorists. Acquired by Google in 2013, it offers many features such as tips, real-time traffic information, and notifications about speed cameras and other obstacles on the road. But that’s not all. Since it is also able to display the price of fuel and tolls updated by users. Suffice it to say that it is difficult to do without its services, especially since it has been completely free since its inception. A new feature was also launched a few months ago that allows users to take advantage of instructions provided by three French accents, namely ch’ti, Provençal and Toulouse. There is something to cheer up the inhabitants of these different regions, as well as all those who were forced to leave them.

In caps:

– I keep calm (🔃)
– I blow hard (❤️)
– I recalculate my route every 2 seconds (💬)

— Waze France (@Waze_France) November 25, 2022

New feature

But Waze wants to go a little further to make its service even more efficient for its users. That’s why the app has just launched a new operation aimed at improving the pronunciation of certain streets. Because it is a vocal synthesis who is responsible for the ad and then every now and then he gets it wrong. To overcome this problem, Waze allowed its community to report pronunciation errors from November 28th to December 12th. To do this, simply go to the Waze account on Twitter or Facebook and fill out the Google document provided for this purpose in just a few minutes. Then all you have to do is make the necessary corrections if necessary.

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Reworked version

Once complete, Waze will suggest a updated versions in her French voice, Vanessa, who stands out from the rest by listing the name of every street in the navigation. So far, the date of appearance of this new version on our smartphones has not been announced. As the representative of the company notes, the application already ” more than 170 speech synthesis updates thanks to user feedback. And it’s not the end yet 3600 volunteers will also help improve maps and navigation to make it even easier.

Hello Wazers!
What is the WORST sentence for children in cars…?

— Waze France (@Waze_France) November 18, 2022