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shardian:
Anyone have any luck finding free voices for their GPS? Garmin has 2 on their website, but there are places all over the web 'selling' voices. I am a cheap bastard though.  ;)

This website even has the computer from Portal. Pretty cool huh?
http://www.pigtones.com/

shmokes:
At first I was like, "The thing comes with loads of voices . . . what do you need more for."  Then I clicked the link to check out GladOS.  OMG . . . that's awesome.  The George Bush one was pretty good too.  OMG, Homer is ---smurfing--- awful.  It doesn't even sound close.

Franco B:
Yeah the Homer one is awfull, some of there are shocking but there are some pretty good ones too.

Shardian, I grabbed a load of free ones recently. Bush, Homer, Darth Vader, Yoda, C3PO, Ozzy Osbourne, John Cleese, Arnie, Stephen Hawkins and a load more I can't remember.

I can't seem to find the site but I'll get them off my Tom Tom and upload them.

patrickl:
Don't these "funny" voices get annoying really quickly? As in after one drive you're fed up with them? It's the same joke over and over. I liked the idea of a John Cleese voice, but I never felt like installing it.

I still use the original computer generated TomTom voice (Laura which is the voice of Dutch news reader Elleke van Doorn). I used the generator to create extra voice clips for speed trap warnings with the appropriate speeds.

These voices are pretty amazing. It's really uncanny how they can read a plain piece of text and sound pretty human. Here are some samples. They have an online demo, but now you have to register for it.

shardian:

--- Quote from: Franco B on January 06, 2009, 04:14:01 pm ---Shardian, I grabbed a load of free ones recently. Bush, Homer, Darth Vader, Yoda, C3PO, Ozzy Osbourne, John Cleese, Arnie, Stephen Hawkins and a load more I can't remember.

I can't seem to find the site but I'll get them off my Tom Tom and upload them.

--- End quote ---

I've yet to figure out if the voices are intercompatible between Tomtom and Garmin.

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