gps destination message..

[4mickey2]

can i have wilma (my gps) say "welcome home" when we pull into the fort instead of "you have arrived at your destination." ?

i suppose if i changed my home address to the fort she might just say that.

 

[medic9016]

What GPS do you have?

 

[luckycharm19335]

That is funny. We named our Gps's also.
The one in the RV is Mona and the one in my car is Ethel.

 

[4mickey2]

wilma is garmin and the small one is a tomtom (not yet named??)

 

[kazlac4]

We thought we were the only ones that did that..ours is named Lola!

 

[CoolMom2112]

Mine is named Wanda.


Because she keeps me from 'wanda'-ing around lost for too long!

CoolMom2112

 

[SandrA9810]

Mine is named Wanda.


Because she keeps me from 'wanda'-ing around lost for too long!

CoolMom2112

When I read Wanda, I immediately thought of Fried Green Tomatoes. In the scene where she's trying to park the car, and the young girls whip into the spot saying "we're younger and faster". So she slams into the car like 4 times, telling the stunned girls "i'm older and have more insurance".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXZs3mjGlQU

 

[polkadotsuitcase]

Ours is Maggie.

Would be so cool to change the message! Did you see that one of the brands -- Garmin, maybe? -- now lets you use certain Star Wars characters for the voice? They have their "studio recording sessions" on the website -- hilarious! My kids and I now use our Darth Vader voice and call traffic circles "roundabounds."

Okay, found it. It's TomTom: http://starwars.tomtom.com/

Funny stuff.

 

[des1954]

I call the nav. in my Sync system..."Stupid". The nav system on my Blackberry is often more accurate and direct.

I guess I'm still a little "old school" when it comes to GPS's. If I'm going somewhere I've never been before, I go to the AAA site & print a paper map. I like to see a route ahead of time so I'll know which lane I need to be in well in advance of a turn.

 

[North7]

We thought we were the only ones that did that..ours is named Lola!

Too funny!! We have a Lola on our dash also

 

[bouncycat]

Mine is !itch in a box....I did navigation in the military years ago, and have a pretty good sense of direction, and usually don't get us lost. So, I tell DH that it's his !itch that tells him where to go....in a box!!! LOL I hate that stupid thing.

 

[Bearikens]

I call mine Shut Up...the last time on our way to the fort we were on a new Interstate driving through Alabama and it kept telling me to either turn left onto a country road or to make a "legal u-turn at the earliest opportunity"...so I turned it off.

 

[Specularius]

Here you go. You can use this program to make your Garmin GPS say what you want.

TTSVoiceEditor

and for those that have a Garmin that does not use text to speach, an editor to edit the wave files.
Non Text to Speach Editor

 

[flamingogal]

You can change the name of your destination and that is what your GPS will say. There is no profanity editor so watch out! This can get interesting on long trips and you secretly edit some destinations!

Our Garmin is named Sacajawea. She's been navigating on many trips and she does pretty well but she's had her moments when I've hit the mute button.

Jeanne