What voice do most of you use?

Aussie Chick for me

I have Emily as primary but added Karen as the RedLight voice. They seem to get on with each other most of the time...

Female voice is most informative, the male voices gets distorted on my Garmin 265Wt

I have tried all the English speaking voices and have settled on Jack. I started with Jill but now find that Jack is less grating to my ear. I hope I don't come across as sexist.

I am using American Jill. I tried all of the English voices but could not get use to hearing how the British and Australian voices say the exits and highway numbers using hundreds. For example: exit at four hundred fourteen instead of how the American voices would say: exit at four fourteen.

I like to use Aussie Dude LEE. Love the way he says PAAAK WAY

I use Australian Karen Voice. It is more clear even on full volume. Jill is good but it works best on volume upto 80. But while driving with my wife, her volume stays higher than Karen !!!!
lol

I use 'Kate' from UK. I have tried the American voices, both male and female and prefer the pronunciation of the UK female.

I change them up, but usually use Australian Karen. I used to like British Emily, but my wife said she sounded like that crazy English woman that was on Dexter.

I suggest everyone download the Yeti voice from garmin. Timing it immpecable at times

I have been using Samantha in my nuvi265 but I miss Jill from mo old 360. Maybe I'll give Karen a try!

She's annoying but I still like it over the other voices

We use Karen too! My wife says she sounds less angry than Jill and I tend to agree.

Karen, the HOT Australian chick.

I don't understand women so I listen to American Jack.

I have used Karen on my nuvi350 since the purchase. Both my wife and I think she is the most understandable we have found.

It's been three years since my prior post and nothing has chnaged !!!

It would be cool to have a hilbilly red neck say riight turn up younder... But Karen from down under is nice.Thats one I use.

Jill, though some of the Aussie ones are fun...

Just Jill

I am using mostly Jill, but rotate a few others to keep things interesting...

sounds more 'Boston' than Aussie. I like the Aussie gal, the bad thing is the 765t I have sounds tinnie.

You can change "recalculating" to what ever you want use this:

http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/

works great, mine says
"you are going the wrong way"

You can be creative but remember if you ever have other people in your car, you might want to keep it clean.

Others are too foreign...

I like Samantha American

American Jack here. It seems to be the clearest to me.

Fred

All the girls are great. You can yell at them and they don't argue. It is a harmless way to vent and avoid road rage, just remember to keep the windows up.

I prefer Aussie Karen, kids love Dr. Nightmare though.

I have started playing with the Garmin voice creation software and importing/converting audio clips to create a multi-voice file.

That way the voice would feel unique and you never know who would decide to give you directions

Cheers!

Tomb,

Use TurboCCC's "Voice Editor" ( http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/TTSVoiceEditor )

With it you can adjust the volume of TTS voices but the program's main trick is allowing you to modify individual phrases. You can change any 'stock' phrase to anything you'd like. Many users start by changing "recalculating" to something less harsh. Mine says "Thinking, Thinking, Ah Ha, lets try this!"

Cheers

I prefer Jill.

Just Jill.

I use jack for directions, as I have not had very good experiences with females providing directions or reading maps for that matter and I use Karen from the att site for my POIs because it is usually the females that are the most needy when traveling.

I use Jack. Wish it was Jack Bauer. That would be cool.

I use British Daniel. He is very understandable & clear.

I use some haunted voice I downloaded around Hollowween, but I keep mine muted most of the time anyway...

Having tried all the english TTS voices, I find that the male voices are better at pronounciation than the female voices are, BUT I can't stand listening to a dude giving me directions all day, so I'm sticking with British Serena on my 255w. Sure she'll pronounce boulevard as 'bou-le-verrrrrd' which always annoys me slightly, but I like her sexy voice and accent the most.

American Jill sounds the best for me.

Jack seems the best for me.

but always stick with the women.

I've given up on TTS. When the wife is with me on the bike it's American English and when I'm solo it's Dr. Nightmare! He's a riot but makes the wife's skin crawl.

I have noticed that same tone from Jill when she says "recalculating". I have only had my Nuvi about a month, so I haven't tried changing voices yet.

I wonder - Do the phrases stated by the other voices always sound clear, and where your mind can quickly comprehend what was said (instead of still thinking of how cool the accent sounds!)? I am thinking of the Aussie voices that several people have mentioned.

I have switched to Karen (Australian) after reading this thread. I like her better than Jill. Maybe Jill just got old after 2 years.

She was the candidate for French presidency, and was so famous for saying stupid things and inventing new words... I'm sure French members would appreciate the pun !

Bottom line, I also MUTED the darn machine. Just like we did by not electing her.

Still, just for the heck of it, I'd love some voices from "The Nanny named Fran". I can imagine Niles warning me about a radar, or one of Frannie's famous "Oh Mister Sheffield..."

Darn, sometimes I hate traveling down memory lane. But not today, I wonder why

I like the aussy dude. The british guy uses words like 'slipway' when he means 'exit' so he confuses me.

what I really like is when they get it wrong (not next right, but second right...) I can say, "obviously he's not from around here..."

and the pronounciation is fun to get used to: Lemont for instance is pronounced around here as Le Mont whereas the aussy guy says Lemon-t (lament)

I tried all the available TTS voices for my Nuvi 255 but found them to be so low-quality that they are totally useless to me. My hearing is not what it used to be and i find that i cannot understand many of the words in ALL! the TTS voices. Yes, i give up speaking street names feature, but i just cannot tolerate a voice that i cannot understand.

I know now that when it comes time to buy another Gps, I will have to test the GPS for voices before i buy it.

I use Jack. Always Jack. I've tried others but I always go back to Jack.

I use a modified Jill voice.

Aussie Chick

What?

No one is listening to their Garmin in the original Klingon?

LOL

Or do you mean English with a Klingon accent?