I notice that Sarah, in her Mini Trip Report re Ireland (on the "To The North" board), called her GPS "Lola," and later Nancy mentioned calling hers "Sinead."
Our GPS had a strong female voice with a distinct British accent, so we started calling her "Maggie" (after Margaret Thatcher, of course).
What do you call your GPS?
:)
Jill..
I think that's what Garmin calls the American English female voice, but if it's not we do...:)
I call mine, "Slappy."
OMG! We use Lola too. It's the British accent and reminded us of the cartoon the kids watch called Charlie and Lola.
In France last fall, we called her "Josette!" I have no idea why but it seemed to fit.
We named ours Gertrude (Gertie for short). No idea why we named her that. Should have named her..."Recalulating".
Why on earth do you people give your inanimate electronic devices a name? Are you all brain dead?
According the settings screen of my Garmin Nuvi, the British English voice is that of "Emily" (which is what I have it set on).
Here's some of the others:
Deutsch - Steffi or Yannick
Espanol Americas - Javier or Paulina
Espanol Europe - Isabel
Francais Canadien - Felix or Julie
Francais European - Sebastian or Virginie
Italiano - Silvia
Nederlands - Claire
Norsk - Nora
Portuges Brazilian - Raquel
Portuges Europeu - Madalena
Svenska - Ingrid
Cheers!
My TomTom has the voice of John Cleese (you can download new voices from their website), so we usually call it JohnJohn instead of TomTom.
Mine is Lola too!
Why, Charles??? Um, because we can??? Is that good enough for you?
Oh, my Garmin is Gertie!
Well, I don't have a car and therefore don't have a GPS, but if I did, I would call mine "KENT".
Ours is Susan which is the name given to her by our tomtom. Inanimate?? Maybe so, but Susan can get sassy sometimes with her "turn around when possible" with a touch of irritability in her voice after we have missed a turn. This makes her seem human and I suppose that is why she seems to take on her own personality and whey we talk back to her.
Oh, about my first comment...I was lying. I don't own a GPS. Besides, I'm OK with "less than two" being the number of female voices offering "sassy" instruction in the car as it pertains to driving directions.
I wasn't happy with the one we had in Ireland this summer, so I can't really post the names I had for it, seeing as they were mostly of the four-letter kind.
I was wondering if Charles thought that naming cars, boats, ships, and space shuttles was something brain dead people did too.
People like to name things. Is naming a fish silly?
Naming a GPS that talks is fairly normal considering the response that has come in. It is called having fun.
Little Dude. He doesn't talk though, just beeps angrily at us.
Mine is called The B**** and I frequently have arguments with her as she always sounds so judgmental.
Ummm, after our first successful navigation of a double-roundabout in Scotland, "Marriage Saver". :)
