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Monday 08/18/08

I recently got a fancy new Garmin GPS for my automobile jaunts. It comes with a variety of voices with different accents in addition to the male and female American voices. Indulging an urge to feel as though I was being driven around by Jeeves, I tried the British male voice, Daniel, and confirmed that the United States and Great Britain are still two countries divided by a common language. Here are some of the atrocities Daniel committed on a single trip:

• "Front St. N" was rendered as "Front Saint North"
• Hilariously, "Issaquah-Fall City Rd." was spoken as "Isaac Waffle City Road"
• Most inexplicably of all, "Ames Lake Rd." was pronounced "American Englishes Lake Road"

I really like the sound of the British male voice, and these mistakes are good for a laugh, but when I need to get where I'm going, I'll choose Jack, the American voice.

Re: Garmin British voices There are 2 messages in this thread, displayed in the order they were posted. Jerry Kindall 12/17/2008 10:34:42 PM Pacific Sadly, this GPS was stolen from my car last month. Goodbye, Daniel and the rest of the gang. hanging_out 3/6/2010 6:04:30 PM Pacific Sorry to hear some scoundrel stole your Garmin GPS device. I just stumbled on your site when I was looking for the British voice (set) for my nuvi 200. Yeah, I know the 200 is the entry level device, discontinued by Garmin, but it was a gift—and very nice as a gift. I have been through a war with Garmin but alas, that is another story. Having said that, I wouldn’t but one for myself if I had know the level of their support … I wasn’t trying to pinch the software because Gamin gives the voices away. Now, they have software for a user to create their own voice instructions. At the moment, all my Brit friends are in England and I am afraid I have picked up a bit of a Texas drawl! :( It is currently 3/12/2010 8:47:25 PM Pacific. Name: (required)  E-mail: (optional)  URL: (optional)  Enter your comments below. Leave a blank line between paragraphs. You may use <B>, <I>, and <A> HTML tags for formatting and linking, but you need not use HTML for line and paragraph breaks. Your e-mail address will not be displayed publicly. Remember me       aspcomments2 by Jerry Kindall based on aspcomments by sneaker