Who's voice would you like on your sat-nav?

dreamdaisy
dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
edited 9. Aug 2010, 14:50 in Community Chit-chat archive
Apparently Brian Blessed is being hauled out of semi-retirement by Tom-Tom as someone began a campaign on facebook to have his voice on their sat-nav. TT said they'd do it if 25,000 requested and 25,800 have, so they are going ahead. I have the steam-driven version of sat-nav, a road atlas, but it set me thinking. I decided the voice I would like would be Moira Stuart's: warm, well-modulated and with good diction. Who wouldn't I have? Anne Robinson - too nasal and strident. What about you? DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
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  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Good question.................Ozzy Osbourne for me.........

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  • janie68
    janie68 Member Posts: 1,186
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi

    I think I would like if I did have sat-nav, would be the new Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch. Lovely :lol:

    Janie
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Good call! And the opposite? Who would set your teeth on edge? DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sharon Osbourne

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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I can see why Rob! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    I can see why Rob! DD

    She's such a shining whit.................

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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thhinking along those lines (which I'm not supposed to be) the lovely Katie Price was quoted in the Travel section of the Sunday Times today, saying that her worst holiday ever had been in Euro Disney, Paris because ' ..it was full of French people.' You don't say. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am a big fan of Professor Brian Cox of ''Wonders of the Solar System''. He has a nice Lancashire accent, and I would trust him to direct me accurately. If he knows his way around the stars, I'm sure the roads wouldn't give him much trouble.

    Probably the worst voice I can think of would be Janet Street Porter's. Can you imagine her voice on a long journey? You'd want to drive off a cliff after listening to that :!: :shock:

    Bcham, I love your idea of Harry Hill, but I wouldn't be able to drive for laughing. :lol::lol:
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  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    robertls wrote:
    Sharon Osbourne

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    Shes lovely. Her kids were at the same school as mine and she always was a sweetie. Ozzie, bless him, would hold the door open for me.

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I do not like Margaret Thatchers voice so she s my nono. I would love somebody Russian on my Satnav.

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    tkachev wrote:
    I do not like Margaret Thatchers voice so she s my nono. I would love somebody Russian on my Satnav.

    Elizabeth

    Russian eh??................but I dont speak Russian..........wouldn't be very helpful....

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  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Richard Burton....I know he is no longer with us...but I am sure with all the technology....oh and I would love him to say my name...Barbara just turn right at the next roundabout... :):)
    Love
    Barbara
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Ulun Rickmun. Un anasaul voice und not to everyone's tustes, but pleusunt to heur. (well Rob, does it work? - This ideu phollows on phrom the tab chuir). DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I think Bob Dylan was once asked to be a SatNav voice, but he decided against it.

    He is quoted as saying, "I think it would be good if you are looking for directions and hear my voice saying something like, 'Left at the next street, no a right. You know what? Just go straight'. I probably shouldn't do it, because whichever way I go I always end up at one place: Lonely Avenue."

    Ahhhh, poor Bob!

    We could have asked him,'' How many roads does a man walk down before there are any traffic jams?''

    His reply would have probably been, '' The answer is blowing in the wind ''.

    Just thought of some more good ones:

    Stephen Fry, Rowan Atkinson, or for two really camp ones, Alan Carr or Kenneth Williams. I can just imagine the latter if you took a wrong turn..... ''Oh stop messin' about!''
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  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    Ulun Rickmun. Un anasaul voice und not to everyone's tustes, but pleusunt to heur. (well Rob, does it work? - This ideu phollows on phrom the tab chuir). DD

    Soands phubaloas to me...........I'm sare its obvioas whuts huppened

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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Is it a gender thing too? We're mostly opting for male voices - agreed they are far less strident than women's - ooooh, sudden thought, Caroline Wyatt, a BBC correspondent has a lovely, deep, double-cream type of voice. That 'ud work. Would blokes prefer a female voice and vice-versa? DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    Is it a gender thing too? We're mostly opting for male voices - agreed they are far less strident than women's - ooooh, sudden thought, Caroline Wyatt, a BBC correspondent has a lovely, deep, double-cream type of voice. That 'ud work. Would blokes prefer a female voice and vice-versa? DD

    Is it u gender thing too? We're mostly opting for mule voices - ugreed they ure phur less strident thun women's - ooooh, sadden thoaght, Curoline Wyutt, u BBC correspondent hus a lovely, deep, doable-creum type of voice. That 'ad work. Woald blokes prefer u phemule voice und vice-versu

    Oh deur Dreumduisy..........yao hud u uttuck of pheur????

    Rob x
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  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Is it a gender thing too? We're mostly opting for male voices - agreed they are far less strident than women's -

    Interesting, isn't it? Somehow, a woman giving instructions can sound bossy, but a man just sounds reassuringly knowledgable. Why, I haven't got a clue :!:
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  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    robertls wrote:
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    Is it a gender thing too? We're mostly opting for male voices - agreed they are far less strident than women's - ooooh, sudden thought, Caroline Wyatt, a BBC correspondent has a lovely, deep, double-cream type of voice. That 'ud work. Would blokes prefer a female voice and vice-versa? DD

    Is it u gender thing too? We're mostly opting for mule voices - ugreed they ure phur less strident thun women's - ooooh, sadden thoaght, Curoline Wyutt, u BBC correspondent hus a lovely, deep, doable-creum type of voice. That 'ad work. Woald blokes prefer u phemule voice und vice-versu

    Oh deur Dreumduisy..........yao hud u uttuck of pheur????

    Rob x

    Rob, I hop thus ilnesh ishn't infecshus . I'm a bit phrightend :shock:
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  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Or in my case,''Calm down dear, it's only a motorway''.

    I've got motorway phobia. :shock:
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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Whut cun I suy Rob? I phorgot! Huving hutched suid dusturdly plun only a few minates eurlier I jast phorgot. My upologies. DD Oh, I can't keep it up.

    joanlawson, I think you are right. Male voices are more reassuring, steadying, calming, which is why I wouldn't want Ulun Curr for sturters. (Couldn't resist thut one!) DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    By George she's got it! Time to move to gobbledegook thread baby! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Voice on the satnav? Mine! I'm right and he's always wrong!

    The latest ploy of the satnav was to take us to an industrial site instead of home...........

    Annie
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    They are ridiculous things, it's the way people slavishly follow them that gets me. They completely lose their common sense. Twerps. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 8. Aug 2010, 13:53
    Hi DD,

    Who would I like....Adam West or Patric Stewart I think.... I agree though Moria Stewart would be ok....

    Osborn any no thank you!

    Thatcher is a big no no for me as well as is any politician..... I would also hate any of the cast of Eastenders and I wouldn't much like the queens voice... though it might be funny that she did it :wink: xx

    Oh DD Barbara Windsor would make me heave it through the window!

    Oh how could I forget... Maxi jaz!

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