produce audible speech that the driver can hear another embodiment of a road sign announcing arrangement 200 of the present invention is shown in fig3 arrangement 200 includes a camera 212 and a text recognition module 216 which may be substantially similar to camera 12 and text recognition module 16 of fig1 and thus are not described in detail herein the output of text recognition module 216 may be received by an electronic processor 226 which also receives vehicle location information from an in vehicle gps module 228 processor 226 is also in bi directional wireless communication with an external database 230 of sign messages stored in association with geographical locations processor 226 may forward the vehicle location information along with vehicle traveling direction information which may be derived from the changes in vehicle location to database 230 database 230 may interpret this information as a query as to what message is conveyed by a sign that may be visible to the driver database 230 may respond to the query by transmitting to processor 226 both the literal word for word message on the visible sign and a longer textual interpretation of the sign that is more easily understood in audio form than is the literal word for word message for example in the case of the sign of fig2 database 230 may transmit to processor 226 both u201c speed limit 25 u201d and u201c construction zone ahead speed is reduced to 25 miles per hour u201d processor 226 may compare the output of text recognition module 216 to the literal word for word message as provided by database 230 processor 226 may then based on the comparison produce a confidence score indicating the degree of confidence that the word for word message as.