I noticed that the Google Navigation on my Galaxy Note was not saying street names a few days ago. Navigation instructions were pretty much just 'turn left', 'turn right', 'in one thousand feet, turn left', or 'turn right at the exit'. You have to look down at the screen to get the street names.
I tried hitting force stop, clearing data and uninstalling updates as you may have already found while googling. None worked.
Some information on the device:
Samsung Galaxy Note AT&T white
Android Version: 4.0.4
Baseband version: I717UCLF6
Kernel version: 3.0.8
Google Maps version: 6.14.1
Here is what I have to do and I hope this will help you.
Tap on ‘Settings’
Tap on ‘Language and input’
Tap on ‘Text-to-Speech output’
Change Preferred TTS engine from 'Google Text-to-speech Engine' to ‘Samsung TTS’
There is a minor annoyance. The voice is no longer the more human sounding voice but a more machine synthesized sound.
