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Old Jan 14, 2011 | 11:42 PM
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The face behind the navigation voice :)

A good friend of mine is a freelancer audio engineer in Germany and we talked about the MB navigation system. He mentioned that he recorded 2 or 3 times throughout the years of the Becker/Harman Kardon navigation system the voice samples and I asked him about the woman's name. He told me the name and I thought I would google her up to see who is behind that German voice of our navigation system.

So, for everyone who wanted to see the face and person who borrowed her voice, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JecdLGVS4Kc
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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 01:52 AM
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I don't have navigation, but I thought this video was interesting. As an American who speaks pretty good German (I lived and worked in Germany for 5 years), her pronunciation is very easy to understand.
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Old Jan 15, 2011 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Mackhack
A good friend of mine is a freelancer audio engineer in Germany and we talked about the MB navigation system. He mentioned that he recorded 2 or 3 times throughout the years of the Becker/Harman Kardon navigation system the voice samples and I asked him about the woman's name. He told me the name and I thought I would google her up to see who is behind that German voice of our navigation system.

So, for everyone who wanted to see the face and person who borrowed her voice, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JecdLGVS4Kc
That's cool.
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Old Jan 16, 2011 | 02:48 PM
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Didn't understand a word! So who's behind the voice in English for the U.S.?
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Old Jan 16, 2011 | 02:58 PM
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Didn't understand a word! So who's behind the voice in English for the U.S.?
I didn't say you would understand it. I was just posting the person who did the German voice samples.

English? I don't know as my buddy worked with the German woman only. Sorry for the disappointment I provided to you!
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Old Jan 16, 2011 | 03:14 PM
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English? I don't know as my buddy worked with the German woman only. Sorry for the disappointment I provided to you!
No disappointment ! In fact, I Googled the English voice and found her picture:




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Old Jan 16, 2011 | 03:21 PM
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