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Product: GPS: Personality
Mum in TomTom   (+10, -1)  [vote for, against]
mother gives directions

What birthday present to offer your sibling "who has it all"?

Your mother's voice patched in his/her car navigation system.

Costs nothing to make, just take your parents out for a drive and let your mother read the directions from a map. Record the conversations from the back seat and choose the most hilarious phrases. Next you need cooperation from your sibling's partner for a cover to get access to the car navigation system software unnoticed.

When you give the present you just hand over an envelope with a destination which is difficult to find. Make sure to bring a camcorder when you all 'go get the present'. It is not the destination that counts, it is what happens along the way... (The DVD of that ride is a present for your mom's birthday).

I look forward to the comments!
-- rrr, Oct 16 2006

RElated video on YouTube http://www.youtube....ch?v=vhSA740F6HI&NR
Artificial voice? for GPS [csea, Oct 18 2006]

Mr T, Burt Reynolds, and soon, YOUR mum! http://blog.scifi.c...r_t_burt_reyno.html
[zen_tom, Oct 19 2006]

Navtones.com sells the Tomtom voices http://www.navtones.../viewforum.php?f=1&
there is a 'wanted voices' forum called 'Your voice', but nothing about how to make your own custom voice, apparently it needs to be hacked still [rrr, Oct 19 2006]

Dynastic Dashboard Display Dynastic_20Dashboard_20Display
Similar. [DrBob, Oct 19 2006]

"No. Not that way!"
-- Jinbish, Oct 16 2006


"You're not going to see her again, are you?"
-- land, Oct 17 2006


"Other Left!"
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Oct 17 2006


"You call that a stop?"

"Turn that noise down! How can you even think with that noise going? "

" Your cousin Margaret is going to Princeton. You could be going to Princeton if you buckled down and put your mind to it."
-- dentworth, Oct 17 2006


Or overdub the voice of a friend in the trunk? [link]
-- csea, Oct 18 2006


"So I think I'm going to knock out the back wall and build a greenhouse. Just think how much the grandkids will love it and . . . oh, oh, oh, you were supposed to turn there."
-- Twenty Dollar Duck, Oct 18 2006


I want one with the voice of Kitt from "Knightrider". It would keep calling me Michael, and upon arriving at my destination, would play the theme tune.
-- jtp, Oct 19 2006


[jtp] inspired - I don't know if it's been done already, but there would certainly be a market for the sculpted tones of William Daniels coming out of your GPS.
-- zen_tom, Oct 19 2006



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