RouteVoiceController

A route voice controller plays spoken instructions as audio using the Speech Synthesis framework, also known as VoiceOver.

You initialize a voice controller using a NavigationService instance. The voice controller observes when the navigation service hints that the user has passed a spoken instruction point and responds by reading aloud the contents of a SpokenInstruction object using an AVSpeechSynthesizer object.

The Speech Synthesis framework does not require a network connection, but the speech quality may be limited in some languages including English. By default, a NavigationViewController plays spoken instruction susing a subclass, MapboxVoiceController, that is powered by the MapboxSpeech framework instead of the Speech Synthesis framework.

If you need to supply a third-party speech synthesizer, define a subclass of RouteVoiceController that overrides the speak(_:) method. If the third-party speech synthesizer requires a network connection, you can instead subclass MapboxVoiceController to take advantage of its prefetching functionality.