Celebrity GPS voiceovers

I'd have to think a while for a fifth, but I wouldn't mind these four guys...

Patrick Stewart
Martin Sheen
James Earl Jones
Morgan Freeman

Try these sites.. you will have to pay for them but sometimes you can find a free one in there!

www.pigtones.com
www.navtones.com/voices/garmin
www.gps-creative.com/garminvoices/

that most celebrity GPS voices are non-TTS ... they will not speak street names. So you get
"Turn left in 500 feet" instead of
"In 500 feet, turn left on Maple Boulevard".

Thanks this is cool.

I thought the same thing. It might be cool having a celebrity tell you where to go.

I'd like Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, and Jennifer Aniston.

Joe Pesci

Clint Eastwood in his prime, too

Julia Roberts or Jane Seymour

How do you know what he is saying?

Lee Elia the 1983 Chicago Cubs manager, for those that don't know him, he went off on the "bleacher bums" way back when.

Would he have any other kind?

there are so many out there to choose from...

I'm about 99.9% sure I picked up some malware from one of those sites. I guess my virus software wasn't doing it's job. The reason I'm pretty sure I picked it up from one of them is I had been surfing for an hour or two before I went on those sites and almost immediately after looking at the last one a program called oiu asked for permission to access the internet. When I closed my browser most of my desktop icons were missing. I thought I would do a restore but all of my system tools were also gone. I booted in the safe mode and ran some virus scanners. They found some of the files but apparently not all of them. What saved me was a few months ago I downloaded Macrium Reflect and imaged my hard drive. It worked like a charm but I will be missing some programs I installed after imaging my drive. From now on I'm going to keep the image up to date.

FWIW I just tried hitting pigtones.com from my throwaway VM and it set off the antivirus (Avira free).

...but they'd be interesting nonetheless

Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer (Simpsons)

Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad)

Mel Blanc or Mel Blanc Jr.

For Mel Sr. they'd have to take samples from existing work. Any of the above could provide a dozen different voices all in the same voice file.

Yeah. While a novelty, it's also a leap backward. I often need to hear the street name.

Elmer Fudd
John Cleese
The Church Lady
Howie Mandel's little child voice

A few come to my mind...
Bill Hader ("Stephan" from SNL)
R. Lee Emrey ("GSGT Hartman" from Full Metal Jacket)
John Cleese
Tony Sirico ("Paulie" from The Sopranos)

1) Alan Rickman as Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
2) Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard
3) Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
4) R Lee Emrey as Sgt. Emery
5) Clinton Eastwood as Dirty Harry

Snoop dogg

John Cleese.

That raises an interesting question. How long does it take a voice actor to put together a TTS/street name sound file? I assume they're recording just phonetic sounds that the GPS can string together for street names in addition to the side comments, but still, I wonder how long it takes and how boring it is.

Sgt. R. Lee Ermey--and that's how he spells it by the way--(he'll be along to make any disrespectful numbnuts who can't get that spelling straight drop and give him 20 ;-)--would be my choice as well. I've seen a celebrity impersonation GPS voice file for him, but I didn't think it sounded like the real Sarge.

How about Sza Sza Gabor

I tried a navtones voice. it changed the routing and didn't say street names, just turn left or right.