HD Traffic - Audible Update Alert?

[Graeme2812]

Does anyone know if it's possible to have an audible alert when traffic is actually updated?

Whilst this may be annoying every three min with the service is working, it could be handy to have during the problomatic times.

I'm no software developer/programmer, but is such a thing possible?
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Graeme Bennett
Go 540 LIVE
App. 9.510.1234792.1 (2039,04/04/2013)
United Kingdom & ROI v945.6174

[DennisN]

I sort of get this from time to time (not every update, only when my ETA changes) when the nice TTS lady says "New arrival time 5:06pm. You are still on the fastest route."
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[richard345]

[DennisN]

Yes, Richard, I wasn't very convinced myself! Mostly because I don't drive at "normal" speeds - I generally tend to drive noticeably slower than you'd expect (whether as Whitevanman or normal motorway maniac) - I prefer to toddle along at about 57mph on the inside lane of the motorways, because that gets me a good hundred miles further on a full tank than if I burn up the road (it's my fuel money I'm burning).

So I know full well that I'm going to get a change to my ETA, usually arriving later than the first ETA and on a longer journey, I'll get this revised ETA more than once, quite simply because I'm not doing anywhere near 70mph on motorways and 60mph on other roads - I'm surprised I don't get it more frequently!

So somebody else needs to come up with an audible alert for traffic updates - I wish TT would - I'd even be happy if instead of "Traffic is up to date" they said "Traffic updated x minutes ago".
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Graeme2812]

That's what I was thinking. A nice little discrete optional 'bong'

The visual alert is a bit dangerous IMO.
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Graeme Bennett
Go 540 LIVE
App. 9.510.1234792.1 (2039,04/04/2013)
United Kingdom & ROI v945.6174

[AndyVaughan]

You can have an audible alert when the traffic on your route changes, not when Traffic itself updates.

This is either a 'bong' or the TTS description of a new arrival time. You do not have to have set an arrival time for this to work.

Check your traffic and voice preferences to check the necessary boxes are ticked. I like the TTS one (one of the main reasons I got TTS working on the XL LIVE).

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