Using celebrity/character voices in navigation systems goes back almost a decade, and features some of the biggest names in the world. Check out the slideshow for our collection of the greatest and geekiest. Most are still available for purchase (or free), particularly if you have a compatible Garmin or TomTom navigation system (check compatibility before you buy). How this hasn't become a thing for Google and Apple Maps on phones yet, I don't know. Maybe Drake can record one for Apple soon.
Free Garmin Celebrity Voices Downloads
Looking for free Garmin GPS voices to download for your navigation system? While there are numerous GPS download sites, many of them use language that can be confusing if you are trying to get around in the United States. Fortunately, there are a few sites offering English Garmin voices for your device.
I found a couple on the Garmin site, but have been trying to find some more good voices for my Garmin Nuvi 765wt. Thank you in advance for your information.You use the terms good and free in the same sentence. If you don't like the extra voices Garmin provides, then absolutely stay away from any others. My experience with the add-ons available from other vendors is they are pure CRAP! (And that's being VERY nice.) Some of the ones you buy are a little better, but the majority are impersonators and they aren't even good impersonators.
Garmin Voices Choose from a wide range of celebrity impressions Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman and more. Simply choose a voice below, hit the download button and add the voice to your Garmin Nuvi, then you can have more fun on the road with Stuart's Celebrity Garmin Voices. *Free* 'Garmin Garage' voices, vehicles, and dashboards for your Garmin Navi GPS. There's a bunch of free voices, vehicles, and dashboards you can upgrade your Garmin GPS with. Star Wars, The Simpsons, Wallace & Gromit are a few of the options. Currency converter, unit converter, calculator and more. The 265WT is compatible with our free. The best celebrity GPS voices: personalise your sat nav. Quirky GPS voices: from Mr T to Homer Simpson. Why not spruce up your sat nav with a celebrity voice or famous cartoon character to drown out that dreary, default computer voice? T voice sells for US$12.95 and is available for a range of TomTom and Garmin GPS devices.
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Drivers who use a GPS navigation device have recently been spicing up their driving experience by downloading celebrity voices for their journeys. Snoop Dogg famously lent his voice to TomTom, giving the Dutch navigation device and software maker an opportunity to sell a premium (and very chilled) service to it customers.
A few middlemen are capitalising on the market for premium services, and celebrity voices in particular . One is Navtones, and another is Locutio Voice Technologies, whose revenue has grown from 40,000 in 2007, to 750,000 in 2010; it is forecasting sales of 1.3 million next year. The U.K. company negotiates a complex business of software development, sound engineering and entertainment production, and works exclusively with TomTom.
It counts the Snoop Dogg among its offerings, but its main focus is big-ticket franchises like The Simpsons, Star Wars and Looney Tunes. A franchise of voices like these can be three-times more profitable than a celebrity thanks to the prospect of being translated into multiple languages--believe it or not, consumers in Germany or France recognize the dubbing actors.
Today Locutio and TomTom split the revenue 50/50 for their sales of famous voices on the VoiceSkins Web brand and TomTom site. Each voice for the TomTom personal navigation device (PND) costs $13 while a Star Wars app for the iPhone (available since May) costs about $5. There have been "tens of thousands" of downloads of the Star Wars app, while unit sales of Homer Simpson's voice for the PND was "a strong six-figure sum," according to Hilton.
Currently, amidst the requests he's getting from a stars in the movie and music industry--including one well-known puppeteer--Hilton is in talks with mobile app developers in North America and Israel about licensing his voices to use in downloads with their navigation apps, and with a large mobile-phone maker in Europe.
GPS technology has freed us from the tyranny of the printed, folding map. But at the same time, it has made us slaves to our cellular provider's data plan. Many of the leading GPS and mapping app providers, including Waze, Apple Maps, and Google Maps, will only work if you're connected to a network. These services aren't preloaded with map information. Rather they send relevant maps to your phone on the fly, over the air. (Google Maps has limited offline map support, allowing for downloads of maps that are a maximum of 50km x 50km square, which is fine for city walks but insufficient for even a modest day trip.)
Aside from using the available default voices, adding, or customizing, Waze adds celebrity voices to the list that are only available for a certain time. Also, they are added to promote movies, TV shows, and upcoming music or albums. Here are some of the featured celebrity voices for navigation:
Lord Vader and Yoda are not the first fictional characters Garmin has offered for download: It still has Dora the Explorer and Spongebob Squarepants voices available for $6 as well. And there are many third party sites that offer celebrity and character voices for both Garmin and rival TomTom: Services like Spot It Out and NavTones have options like Burt Reynolds, KITT from Knight Rider, and, my personal favorite, Flavor Flav (uh, NSFW).
VoiceSkins, which produces "licensed real celebrity GPS voices for TomTom," added Snoop Dogg to its roster alongside Dan Castellaneta as both Homer Simpson and Mr. Burns in 2009. Since then, dozens of famous voices have been made available to TomTom users, including Burt Reynolds, Kim Cattrall, Bugs Bunny, Mr. T and Darth Vader.
Regardless, their stamp of approval sparked a massive wave of downloads. Prior to its celebrity endorsement, the app had never ranked higher than the No. 541 spot in any one category, according to data from analytics firm Sensor Tower. Just days after the Kardashian plug, the app was No. 1, with more than 8 million downloads in the App Store and Google Play.
And, at the time of this writing, an app called "My Replica - Celebrity Look Like Me" appears to capitalizing on the "celebrity lookalike" trend even more shamelessly. Upon downloading the app, it prompts you to buy a "diamond subscription," which costs $99.99 a quarter after a three-day "free trial." That app has raked in more than $363,000 in the month of October alone, according to Sensor Tower. 2ff7e9595c
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