Stephen Fry — best known stateside for his portrayal of Jeeves and on Giz for his Apple enthusiasm — is now available as a downloadable voice pack for your TomTom navigation device. At least if you live in the UK.
I’m sure most Americans are more than familiar with the British actor’s work (his BBC series did tour the country after all) and would probably appreciate his impeccable diction and cultured accent more than his fellow countrymen. But for the moment his new TomTom voice pack is only available on the UK version of their site for just over $US12. Bollocks! [TomTom via Pocket-lint]
light487
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:13 AMI wonder if this voice pack pronounce english words accurately. When I got my TomTom it worned me that some of the Australian words couldn’t be pronounced properly.. that’s fine, I thought.. until I came across distinctly British English words that it couldn’t pronounce correctly either..
deadnotsleeping
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:18 AMThat’s ok, Apparently you can spell/pronounce words correctly either, OR look at the inbuilt spell check. I guess your just too busy rolling around in your own self righteousness.
Warned not Worned
Inform
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:34 AMI presume you meant “can’t” – not “can”.
Even if you meant “can” it isn’t grammatically correct to use it with the word “either”.
Inform
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:40 AMOh, you spelt “troll” wrong too.
:)
Eccentric
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 12:14 PMSo how does he correct it even if he did realise the mistake? I can’t an edit post button anywhere! Get off your high horse, people make mistakes!
olearymo
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:13 PMThat’s ok, (a)Apparently you can(‘t) spell/pronounce words correctly either, OR look at the inbuilt spell check. I guess you(‘)r(e) just too busy rolling around in your own self righteousness.
Fixed that for ya there, deadnotsleeping. Did you do that on purpose? Are you trying to be ironic?
Jaezass
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 12:11 PMSeriously? Fry is an uber intelligent British encyclopaedia! He may actually be the first android! Of course he is going to pronounce it properly!
olearymo
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:14 PMBasically, if Stephen Fry pronounces something, it’s correct. End of story.
Sam Timmins
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:58 PMIs it just me, or are the samples:
1) A-
2) SSS-
3) H-
?