Who is the voice of sat nav?Īs Stephen Fry becomes the latest voice of TomTom, following in the illustrious footsteps of Brian ‘Gordon’s Alive’ Blessed and Darth Vader, it got the T3 team thinking about the iconic voices we’d love to hear on satnavs in the future. Why are automated voices always female?Ĭlifford Nass, a Stanford University Professor and author of The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships, says a preference to female voices is ingrained into us: “It’s much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes,” he explains. How did an Australian woman who wanted to be the next Olivia Newton-John become the voice of SIRI and the confident giver of directions in than 400 million GPS and smart-enabled devices? Also known as “GPS Girl,” today’s guest, Karen Jacobsen, never saw her device-enabled voice-future coming.
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This may explain why in almost all GPS navigation systems on the market, the default voice is female.
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Why are automated voices always female?.