PLEASE make it possible to preview voices when we want to choose one. I don’t want to mess with my phone while I’m driving. It looks like this has been requested for years.

Not having preview is so stupid.

Definitely a MUST to have!!!

So, we have different definitions of “near future”

You force us to test voices while driving which requires using phone while driving.
Test the voice before driving is a must. Please

Check Waze directions are playing through car speakers before moving off.
Impossible and dangerous to try and do while on the move.

Please make that a test sentence is heard when a voice is selected!

Insane this feature doesn’t work. More maddening is that there is a preview button, it just doesn’t do anything. But if you look online, all the instructions say just hit the preview button - so I feel like an idiot trying repeatedly and checking every possible setting on my phone. Do better, Waze, you may be the best option but you aren’t the only option!

Seriously...

How is there STILL no option to preview the voices in the settings? I know you can preview the sidekick voices but it's only one line and doesn't tell you at all what the voice is going to say randomly after an alert

This is potentially a safety issue as the only way to hear a voice is to go out on a drive and then hope to God that you can understand what they are saying as you navigate. Also there should be an option to turn off the random quips and voice lines from the sidekicks. I want to hear their nice voices but I don't want to hear random facts and jokes while I'm driving. It's been years and this keeps getting requested. You'd think a navigation app who's ENTIRE focus revolves around customization and user reported alerts would have a super fleshed out menu around this. I want to be able to hear things like "turn left on main St" or "at the intersection, keep right then turn left" in the menus before hearing it for the first time while driving.

There’s too many voice options to select one and have to start navigation somewhere in order to hear what the voice sounds like.

Pre-listen feature when choosing navigation voice.

Love the app only failure is this critical function
Nov 2024

Get this done, please.

I thought I was doing something wrong bc I couldn’t hear the voice choices when clicking on them. OMG! I’m a “sweet southern bell”, but I’m about to lose my s#+% over this. IT’S 2024!! Let’s fix this! (Please….🤦🏼‍♀️). Thank you - IN ADVANCE!!

Please have a sample button for the various voices!!! It can say the same phrase like turn right or left. Currently we can only hear it after choosing a voice and then driving. If we dont like it we have to change it, restart Waze which is dangerous.

Yay! Welcome to 10 years of people asking for this option and nothing being done about it. Just have a voice sample button that says the same phrase like turn right or left. It shouldn't take 10 years in your backlog.

You've done this with Dashie who is a voice I don't want to use, so I feel it could be implemented with the other voices rather than me selecting one I don't understand and having to wait until I'm driving to realise I don't understand it!

Trying to troubleshoot whether the voice is working with my parents when they call me to use Waze for the first time and can't figure out how to make sure it will give them directions through Bluetooth!!! Seriously.

please update this item. I am hoping this will be implemented in 2024