Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Little things please little minds...

I managed to give our last Sat Nav an occasional stutter by trying to re-set the language to 'Australian' rather than English, as I thought it would sound a lot 'sexier' as a Sheila. Still came out in perfect Oxford / BBC but with added speech impediment. Ho hum.

Our new Navman S300 has the ability to 'call out' almost every road name due to some fancy new technology, and this time I managed to find and load the ‘Aussie’ software.

Driving through France today we were almost in tears – it was funny enough having the road names pronounced as if written in English ( a lot of streets called Rudy), but the ‘strine twang added to the surreal experience.

My only complain is that the directions don’t all come out as questions – “In 100 yards? At the roundabout? Take the first exit?

As I said, little things please little minds.

Paul, it sounds better than some modifications: -

A friend had Ozzy Osborne as his voice on his TomTom. The commands were something like, "Turn...right...no left!... not right..." etc, etc. You can imagine Ozzy with his dithery approach and wonderful grasp of interjecting curse after curse trying to navigate.

It was so annoying I wanted to throw his TomTom from the window.

I think there is a 'Tourette Syndrome' option! Found these as well

http://www.nav-voices.co.uk/Scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=72&gclid=CNamoJ--0ZgCFQaA3godej2T0g

'Problem' on new unit is that not evey voice supports the TTS option - but think I may have to buy a few just for variety. The Yoda voice does rather appeal!

I put Yoda on a friend's Tom Tom (downloadable from the TT website) last summer...

"At the roundabout, the second exit you will take"

Kept it ever since, she has!