# Do you name your car's electronic "voice"? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876 "2023-11-18T22:57:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/1 "2023-11-18T22:57:09Z")
One of my friends named their GPS navigator voice “Slow Ride Sally”. A magazine writer says he calls his “Dashboard bitch”! , b/c sometimes she in unhelpful and annoying … lol … Do you folks have a name for your GPS’s voice? Is it always a women’s voice? It seems like a man’s voice would be easier to hear. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/2 "2023-11-19T00:38:17Z")
> [@George\_San\_Jose1](#): > > Is it always a women’s voice? It seems like a man’s voice would be easier to hear. The GPS on my Subaru gave me the choice of a man’s voice or a woman’s voice, and it also gave the option of choosing a US accent or a British accent. Surprisingly, the Lexus doesn’t give me that option. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 4:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/3 "2023-11-19T04:07:43Z")
Yeah I call mine Karen, then sometimes other names under my breath. Seems to me I read somewhere you could change it to a guy. But then like the phone company, there is only one person that records all this stuff, sometimes in greater degrees of scolding. I try to tell her I’m not going that way but she doesn’t listen as usual. Never drove into the river following my directions. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/4 "2023-11-19T04:16:50Z")
I tell it to shuddUp already 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/5 "2023-11-19T04:18:44Z")
Still use garmin as update for toyota GPS is pricey. Really want Shawn Connery voice, I have maybe a dozen voices availaible, but want to hear Shawn Connery “You;ve missed your turn, You idiot” ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 4:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/6 "2023-11-19T04:19:51Z")
Dead men tell no tales. ---
**Author:** ![wolyrobb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wolyrobb/32/45497_2.png) [@wolyrobb](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wolyrobb)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 4:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/7 "2023-11-19T04:29:58Z")
Robin WIlliams in one of his comedy albums said the same thing, more of a generic scotsman but a little more colorful language. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/8 "2023-11-19T12:52:20Z")
> [@George\_San\_Jose1](#): > > It seems like a man’s voice would be easier to hear Only if you’ve been married for some time and learned how to tune certain things out 😀 ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/9 "2023-11-19T12:53:09Z")
> [@Barkydog](#): > > want to hear Shawn Connery “You;ve missed your turn If it really sounds like Sean Connery, it would sound like… _You’ve MISHED your turn_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/10 "2023-11-19T14:17:25Z")
Robot lady but that’s really my wife’s car using her iPhone. I only owe the name when my wife is driving and she diverges from robot lady’s instructions. I tease her that robot lady will be unhappy wither her impertinence. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-you-name-your-cars-electronic-voice/193876/11 "2023-11-19T17:56:23Z")
Heh heh. My wife likes to follow along on her phone. So I’ve got the nav system, her phone, and sometimes her directing me. Talk about back seat driving. I often say I don’t know if it’s you, the phone, or the nav system instructing me. How I ever made a million miles driving alone with a map is a mystery.