Bob Dylan To Voice GPS System

Telegraph:

Bob Dylan, the singer-songwriter who has taken his fans down Highway 61 by way of Lonely Avenue and Desolation Row, is in negotiations to voice a satellite navigation system.

The music star claimed that he has been approached by more than one manufacturer keen to harness his unmistakeable, rasping tones - a voice which one critic memorably likened to sandpaper. He shared the news with listeners to his late-night radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour, which is broadcast on BBC Six Music.

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Comments

[JScott]

11:22 AM on 08/27/2009

I can just see celebs in the studio now.....

take 100

'Turn right at Main Street'

'can we try that again....n­o mumbling..­.. be clear in your diction...­.remember the person
listening will be driving a motor vehicle sometimes at high speed.....

take 101...


Gawd wonder how long it takes to do every street in the country.

[soundping]

11:37 PM on 08/26/2009

The four lanes They Are a-Changin' next right...

[bgofca]

10:16 PM on 08/26/2009

love dylan, but he isn't always clear in his pronunciat­ion and I wouldn't want to try to find my way by listening to his instructio­ns; rather listen to his music. Oh well, i wouldn't by gps anyway. I just google or yahoo a map.

[waldopepper]

09:59 PM on 08/26/2009

"Turn left at the --- mumble-mum­ble --"
"Drive -- mumble -mumble -- miles to reach your destinatio­n."

Save us.

[Jonathan Mann]

08:48 PM on 08/26/2009

I wrote a song about it:
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=QWNAUAFb3­Ik

[PaxMundis]

03:12 PM on 08/26/2009

I want a HAL the computer GPS. Or James Earl Jones.

[drumz]

01:09 PM on 08/26/2009

Great idea! How about Barry White? Or Julian Lennon...

I would love to hear my Grandfathe­rs Irish Brogue

[Bluesue]

09:24 AM on 08/26/2009

People will be lost forever.

[slobone]

08:25 AM on 08/26/2009

That's hilarious! But actually I'd much rather have Gilbert Gottfried.­..

[rich3324]

09:43 AM on 08/26/2009

I just spit coffee all over my desk. That would be funny.

[cungar]

09:20 AM on 08/27/2009

Emo Phillips

[Shirley Fisk]

07:59 AM on 08/26/2009

8/26/09
7:59am
Sunny Isles Beach, FL

Reminds me of a friend whose car came with a male voice telling her to buckle her seat belt, etc. When asked why she didn't disable the nagging voice in her car she replied, "I can't do it. He is the only man in my life now."
Well if you can get Bob Dylan's voice to be the only male voice in your life, that's not so bad.

[ladyvader]

04:31 AM on 08/26/2009

Just talk through your nose which is how Dylan sings.

I would not buy a GPS with his voice on it. Nasally sounding..­..turn right one block. turn left here. No thanks.

[mairs]

12:00 AM on 08/26/2009

OMG. I would be the first to go out and buy that GPS system!

[cungar]

10:44 PM on 08/25/2009

You don't need a GPS to know which way the wind blows.

[Kalel]

10:08 PM on 08/25/2009

Good luck to anyone relying on Dylan telling them which way to turn.

[Sing Out and Slap Iron]

08:05 PM on 08/25/2009

Tell me this is a joke! Oh good lord please let this be a joke.

[smiles123]

09:57 PM on 08/25/2009

are you being uppity?