Why don't Siri and google maps talk like Harrison Ford?

[raccoon]

I wouldn’t mind.

[LisaM]

1. What, in a grunt?

LOL.

I just read a book by Eve Babitz where there is a thinly-disguised character based on Harrison Ford, and she sums him up wickedly as being monosyllabic and wanting to do "manly" things like climb Mt. Everest and swim the Dardanelles.

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2. the real harrison ford actually does heroic things, like helicopter rescues:

https://www.eonline.com/news/895196/all-the-times-harrison-ford-turned-into-a-real-life-hero

This isn't even the first time Ford's pilot license has come in handy during an emergency.

In 2001, he was flying a helicopter around Wyoming when he found a missing 13 year-old Boy Scout. The teen had slept in a cave the night before during a storm after he had been separated from his troop in Yellowstone National Park.

A year prior, Ford also saved two female hikers who suffered from altitude sickness at the top of Table Mountain in Wyoming. Sarah George, one of the hikers, said he was wearing a tee-shirt and a Cowboys hat when he rescued her and that he was very polite, even when she vomited in his personal helicopter.

[LisaM]

8. He's also been in some crashes, including a near miss with a commercial airliner!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/15/harrison-ford-in-plane-crash-near-miss

My comment was mostly meant to be funny, though, knowing that character (Gilbert Booth in the book "Sex and Rage&quot made it really fun to read.

I'll add that later, when she was burned in an accident, he and another of her friends from the 1960s, Steve Martin, each contributed $50,000 for medical bills.

[htuttle]

3. I'd rather have them sound like Majel Barrett

[Merlot]

4. Last thing I want is some monosylabic man voice ordering me around

I'm currently watching a Wermer Herzog documentary about the birth of the internet, his voice is very nice and relaxing.

Or, how about we get a singer to croon the directions? Or depending on your preference, rap the directions, now that would be interesting!

[raccoon]

6. Good thinking! Some guy who sounds like Elvis maybe. Nt

[ProudLib72]

5. I have the British accent on mine

She sounds delicious!

[Harker]

9. I call her Deirdre.

She gave some fun breathy directions.

[mopinko]

7. sean connery would work for me.

i'd follow that voice right over the edge.