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TomTom sign-up Billy Connolly to give you direction
Article by: Darren Griffin
Date: 16 Apr 2010
 TomTom have signed Billy Connolly to provide recorded voice guidance instructions on your TomTom satnav.
Adding to a long least of real celeb voices including Snopp Dog, John Cleese and Homer Simpson, the voice is a novelty item and costs £8.99 to download.
Although his natural style has been toned down for the family friendly satnav, he'll still have a go if you don't follow his navigation instructions. "Make a U turn. None of this would have been necessary had you been listening a minute ago", or "U turn ahead. I'll be here when you get back".
Billy Connolly can be downloaded from today for £8.99. Visit www.tomtom.com/billyconnolly to hear samples of the voice.
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 Posted by Darren on Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:51 am |
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I'm a BC fan and I'll admit I didn't expect great things of this given he can't swear but the samples suggest it might actually be quite fun for a short while!
Darren Griffin |
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| Posted by spook51 on Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:56 am |
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No swearing, no dirty bits... without them it's not the genuine Big Yin.
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| Posted by Privateer on Fri Apr 16, 2010 5:55 pm |
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The trouble with all celebrity voices is that you lose the TTS facility.
Now if you could get Billy Connolly as a TTS voice then that might be worthwhile!
Regards,
Robert.
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| Posted by Guivre46 on Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:53 pm |
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Not my favourite performer. Irritates me that he has to crease up at his own joke before telling the rest of us. Celebrity TTS is a very good idea though.
Mike R [aka Wyvern46]
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| Posted by john877 on Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:28 pm |
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I am sure Billy Connolly will enjoy getting the sassenachs lost because of Tomtom Mapping errors
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| Posted by Darren on Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:53 pm |
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Celebrity TTS is a long way off, it's a computerised voice after all rather than a real person.
As these are surely only novelty items I guess it doesn't make a great deal of difference though, some people prefer not to use TTS, some people don't have TTS as an option either.
Darren Griffin |
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| Posted by mcwarre on Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:39 pm |
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£8.99 is taking the Michael a bit isn't it????
That's at least 8 cans of Special Brew 
Or 1/3 the price of the full UK & Ireland copilot 8...................
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