Pig Tones is designed to spice up your boring old GPS voice instructions by letting you download celebrity and novelty voices to your TomTom or Garmin satellite navigation devices. Hey, it’s not a horrible idea, although we suspect that having Arnie or Yoda navigate your way around town could get old real fast. Priced at $12.97 a package. [Via]
Actually, we just want you to love your GPS. We know…you can’t remember how you lived without it. But soon, that once-welcome voice will get old and boring (just like someone you know) and you’ll want to spice things up a bit. But instead of divorcing your GPS because you’re bored, we’re here to give it a “voice-lift”, perhaps a “personality-transplant.” You won’t recognize her…I mean “it” when we’re through. But you will remember how fun it is to drive again.
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You know, I’d actually go for this – the price isn’t too bad and I suppose you could archive the ones not in use and swap ‘em around. It’d be pretty funny hearing Mr T say “I pity the fool who don’t turn left!”
Rob
Investigate carefully before ordering this. On some gps forums, there are people who are having problems getting this to work and worse, getting the company to respond to their complaints. Not many happy campers out there for this product. Good idea, but bad back-up by the company.
I purchased and downloaded a Pigtones voice for my Garmin GPS. I thought it was a no-risk satisfaction guaranteed opportunity. So I figured I had nothing to lose. The download and install went smoothly, but the voice did not work properly. The messages were cut off by The Garmin, and the messages did NOT provide turn by turn directions which is the main feature of value for me with my Garmin. I wrote for help and got cryptic messages back that I could not understand. I then asked for a refund and was politely informed that the website says that TTS is not supported. Unfortunately I did not know that TTS is what gives turn by turn directions… with street name pronunciation … how was I supposed to know that. So I have uninstalled the Pigtone, gone back to my factory set up … and am now out the purchase price. So my advice is buyer beware. … I will not do business with these folks ever again
I bought a voice of Gilbert Gotfried from http://www.rudegps.com that downloaded easily and according to the site has nearly twice the prompts. As far as I can tell It has worked on every turn. They use a Garmin download that's pretty easy.