TomTom One voices.

[Pete-M]

Just faffing about, as you do, and got the John Cleese voice for the TomTom, which is fun.However, anyone got the proper Mr T or Burt Reynolds one? If so, would you be so kind as to send it / em in my general direction?Ta

[VWPowered]

ohh i'd like a MrT oe, i have ozzy/sharon osborne, john cleese, and a load of others just flying out the door to work now but will try dig them out see what else is on there.take the next f.f.f..f...fucking left

[Mr Lobster]

I have an irrantional hatred of all satnav 'voices', even the standard TomTom lady to the extent that I have it set on silent. Yes that does mean I miss the odd turning if I'm not paying attention but I don't have to have the stupid witch telling me "in twenty miles turn left" all the bloody time.I would imagine celebrity voices would boil my piss even quicker.

[M'coli]

I did think that it would be great to have scat-nav instructions in a rally pace-note style with the voice of, for example, Nicky Grist or Robert Reid.

[VWPowered]

over de crest, lonnnnng easy right, watch the haybails

[trigger]

I've had Elvis and Austin powers on mine for a while but got fed up with them, Downloaded a few of the free ones from the Tom Tom download page but they wasn't much better.Now Mr. T on the other hand... "I ain't getting in no car with Trigger, Fool!" would be awesome!

[FredTransit]

I don't do pratnav at all, but if I did I could see a comedy voice being funny for 10 mins but then be just another reason to hit it with something heavy after that....

[dollywobbler]

Yup, another voice hater here. Yes, I've missed the odd turn but they really do my head in. I guess I prefer reading maps, so I just do that. I'd much rather have my wife next to me, reading a proper map (she's proper good at it, and much more attractive than a Sat Nav) but the little boxes of technology do have their uses when you're travelling solo, especially on country lanes. You can see how tight the next bend will be for a start...I don't like Tom Toms though. Garmin Nuvis are my favourites - though the standard-fit one in the Nissan X-trail is superb. Gives actual views of the junctions so you know which lane to be in!

[Mr Lobster]

I just like maps in general. I'm off to France next week and whilst I'll take the satnav I've also bought a big Michelin map of France. Theres something very pleasing about sitting down and studying a map, so much more detail and information you see that a satnav just doesn't give you. Also makes you actually think about your journey and route rather than just blindly following a screen.

[autohausdolby]

I really enjoy maps as well - I like to know where I am in relation to other stuff, plus it's rare for me to own a car with a fag lighter socket

[gallondrunk]

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[Volksy]

I don't have a sat nav now, but did when I was a recovery driver. They were most useful for finding your way out of rabbit run housing estates

[VWPowered]

i have a giant map tells you all the chateau ruins etc which is great but the misses is no good with maps, so tomtom gets us to the general location

[Pillock]

I've got one of the worse satnavs in the world - it was super-cheap mind and solved a problem at the time - but it has some inexplicable desire to find the smallest roads and the most pointless shortcuts in the world. If I program a destination in, even before we've gone 5 miles it's trying to send me down roads that I know full well might save 0.005 miles in distance but are so twisty and full of horses it'd take much longer.And yes, it happens on 'fastest', 'shortest' and 'optimum'.It also assumes all motorways are 70mph average speed, even the M25 at 8am. So the 'time of arrival' is best ignored, even thinking about touching the brake pedal adds a few minutes. Never happened with a proper tomtom.I do find it handy as a reassurance though, I wouldn't wanna be double-checking a road atlas once I'm on the road so I bung it on silent and use it to confirm that the route I memorised from Google Maps before I left. Oh and the 'blocked road detour' can be quite handy for when you find yourself taking early exits from a major road and diving cross-country.

[Pete-M]

At the moment I've got John Cleese on my TomTom (Can I be arrested for that?) and it's fine. Normal instructions with the odd bit of lunacy.Quite often I have it set to speak Czech (not Cleese, obviously) just as a bit of lingo practice :-)I've tried quite a few of the 'free' ones and they all tend to be utterly crap. However, as the Cleese one is ok, I figured that the Burt Reynolds / Mr T ones could be equally good. "Turn Left, Foo'" could get boring, but I need something to amuse me in a coupld of weeks when I'm driving a truly shite N reg LWB non-turbo Transit to Czech.

[r.welfare]

Satnavs - GR8 for long journeys to somewhere you've not been before. I've got a TomTom One with a full Europe SD card; it's been ideal for getting to holiday destinations in the back of beyond in France and Portugal.However, it is bloody useless for doing local trips, or trying to plot a course to somewhere you've been before, as it takes a route that you wouldn't normally dream of due to local knowledge that doesn't translate well to it's algorithms.Oh, and I keep mine on silent too...

[Station]

The celebrity voices are terrible as they're just soundalikes, which don't actually sound much like the celebrity they're imitating. I drove down to Duxford for work and we went through about 8 of them, all as shit as the last and reverted back to the normal voice.

[Guest]

Satnavs - they're a mixed bag.When I went with Vicsmith to go pick up that MK1 Accord, we were in a vehicle which we didn't fancy taking on the motorway as the exhaust was blowing a little. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a "no motorways" option on my satnav and it was not having it - it kept trying to send us on increasingly ridiculous routes to get us on the M1, even though we were on mostly 50mph+ roads it would think of some way to trick us back onto the M1. They were ridiculous - you could be absolutely miles away and it'd still think it was a good idea. Unfortunately we didn't have a proper map with us as we were rushing, so we just had to aim in the general direction and hope we'd eventually get to the right place.For the last mile or so it bucked its ideas up and neatly found the street in some obscure village. Going back in convoy was much easier - pulled over to get some fuel and used a tatty old map I found in the back of the Accord to get our bearings. Left the satnav on to continue bleating about the M1, shortly after that it was silenced, then it fell off the windscreen so I just left it resting on the passenger seat instead, where it remained for the rest of the journey. Even once it got the motorway out of its head, it wanted to go a rather silly way through central Huddersfield or something. Can't blame the unit itself for that as a road is a road I suppose.But two Satnav rules were created on that day which remain:1. The Satnav gets only brought out for the last bit of the journey when you're trying to find a residential street in some town you've never been to2. The Satnav is permanently set to "mute"

[Pete-M]

The celebrity voices are terrible as they're just soundalikes, which don't actually sound much like the celebrity they're imitating. I drove down to Duxford for work and we went through about 8 of them, all as shit as the last and reverted back to the normal voice.

The Cleese one is *definately* Cleese. Probably why it's not so annoying.

[dollywobbler]

Crikey. With the Alfa being a bit 'italian' with its electronic speedo, I nudged the products chap at work and blagged a brand new sat nav on a three-week test. Well, gives me a while to either fix it or get my own Sat Nav!It's a Medion Go Pal random letters, random numbers and it's shit hot. It's got finger print recognition (though I don't know why...), can display pictures, play movies and music and has an FM transmitter so you can have electronic music in your old motor! I must admit, that last feature is pretty cool.It's good at navigating too - catches up almost immediately when you get fed up with following instructions and take your own route (I tend to do this even when my wife's navigating...)Mind you, it's about £250 worth - so it's more than half the price of the car it's been sitting in...So, it's a bit annoying really as I actually like it. Now it's no longer brand new, I wonder how much they'd sell it for...

[pogweasel]

Urgh. Twat-nav's. I frickin' hate them with a passion. 'Er Indoors is insistent on using one, quite often to go to places that she has been to before Just every thing about them irritates me to the very core. The prattling voices, the distracting graphics, the way that every other twazzock on th road has one clearly glued on the screen, the fashion in which it falls OFF the screen and lands under your feet with alarming regularity, the pointless routes it takes you (either down sme totally forgotten back road, OR straight into the jaws of a monsterous traffic jam), it's all just pish. Don't want one, don't need one. Then again I do have a suspicion that my brain works differently to other folk's - Obviously I travel alot for work, different sites maybe 100 a year - so it's all just like a big jigsaw. You know where A is, you know where B is and have a vague idea that C is somewhere proximate to both, so you just fill in the blank bits as you go, and as you do file them away for future navigation. I guess making maps (ok, on a very small scale) helps. I shall stay resolutely in the navigtional dark ages thanks. (I haven't even got a map book any more, it got soggy so I binned it)

[155V6]

I resisted using sat-navs for a long time.Where I used to work,I used to have 30 deliveries a day max & preffered maps,now I work for Parcelforce & can have up to about 80.My delivery area is quite rural & often I'll just get a house name & a postcode as an address,so don't really have much choice. The problem is that a lot of people who send stuff think that A,everyone has a sat-nav now,& B,they're always 100% correct,so they don't bother giving you directions like they used to.