Darth Vader joins TomTom Voices Line-Up

Darren

Oh dear. TomTom have now announced Darth Vader has joined the list of celebrity voice downloads with more Star Wars characters yet to come including C3PO, Yoda and Han Solo in a partnership with Lucasfilm Ltd and VoiceSkins.com,

Many owners will be wondering why TomTom are spending so much time on what are little more than bells and whistles when so many issues remain in the devices themselves.

So whilst I'm sure we all wished they would concentrate on getting HD Traffic working properly and correcting the issues with map corrections and IQ-Routes slow downs, you will instead have to content yourselves with the prospect of a lovely Vader voice for the princely sum of £7.99.

You can hear samples of the Darth Vader voice at starwars.tomtom.com/voices/.

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DeLorean · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 5:27 pm Post subject:

What a waste of time!
Is it me or do KITT & Darth Vader sound nothing like the originals?

All these gimmicky TomTom voices get on your wick after a few miles Shocked

On my 910 the Loquendo text-to-speech is still fantastic compared to many any other TTS voices I’ve heard Very Happy

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253 · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:01 pm Post subject:

Have to agree.

I suppose I've tried about a dozen of these voices over the last few years, and quickly get bored with them and go back to the originals.
The best one I had was Clint Eastwood, I thought it was pretty good, but in the end I got fed up with "You have reached your destination - Punk!"
Probably still on the TT come to think of it.
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mjdj1689 · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 128

Heres a video of it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljFfL-mL70&feature=player_embedded

Darren · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:28 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:36 pm Post subject:

PMSL - one of the best I have seen in quite a while, well worth watching - Mike

MaFt · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject:

gimmicky 'celeb' voices are soooooo 2005....

Happy Star Wars Day though!

MaFt
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Kar98 · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject:

Would be better without the forced movie quotes. Just do the voice.
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DeLorean · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:35 pm Post subject:

I have to admin the video made me chuckle Smile

....but will TomTom sell enough copied to make it worth while?

I'm sure Lucasfilm's charged them an arm & leg Shocked

Now TTS in KITT or Darth's voice; that would be worth buying Very Happy

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aj2052 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:06 am Post subject:

seems a little bit pointless, they have been available for years by third parties and freely avalaible, I personally only use sharon, perhaps a case of Tomtom being behind as usual, and should concentrate more on map updates.
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Kar98 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:29 am Post subject:

So ... what about Jar Jar?

Yousa go turn right now, okie day?
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MaFt · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 2:01 am Post subject:

[i've split the jar jar binks 'discussion' into the off-topic thread see here

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matthewj · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 03, 2006 Posts: 683

Can I ask a daft question about these voices? Am I right in thinking that they lose all the nice street names and "follow A111 for 15 miles" type stuff? If so, then it seems such a big step backward.

Darren · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 2:12 pm Post subject:

DeLorean · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject:

This tread is going all over the place Shocked

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