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  • Voice in the Machine How GPS voice-over recording works.

    09/30/2009 1:15:32 PM PDT · by Harley · 17 replies · 636+ views
    Slate ^ | Sep 29, 2009 | Eric Hynes
    Bob Dylan, one-time voice of a generation, is allegedly mulling offers to become the voice of satellite navigational devices. The default for GPS audio is anonymous and generic, but celebrities like Dennis Hopper and Mr. T have recorded alternative tracks. How do such voice-overs—which contain a seemingly infinite number of specific directions—actually get recorded?
  • Bob Dylan's satnav would take us to Desolation Row (Bob to narrate GPS system, "'s'cuse me?")

    08/26/2009 11:10:54 AM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 41 replies · 1,022+ views
    Dylan's career has taken some strange directions. Perhaps that's why he's been asked to voice two satnav systems The question of precisely how many roads a man must walk down before you can call him a man has baffled music fans for decades.... Bob Dylan, the man who posed the question in Blowin' in the Wind in 1963, has clearly grown tired of pondering this dilemma, and is now after the answers to more precise travelling questions such as, "How many roads, and in which directions, must a man drive down to get as directly as possible from Stoke Newington...