A new take on GPS voice bugs
Submitted by Erik Petersen on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 10:01.
events | functional testing | people issues | usability test patterns
It is a type of testing I had never imagined, testing pronounciation and even patience. If you were recording voiceovers with a celebrity voice who hadn’t done it before, how would you correct them if they mispronounced something? You could send them a checklist perhaps beforehand.
What if they were intimidating and known for their short temper and meglomaniacal tendencies? A famous celebrity recently was recording a GPS voice over, and was saying “roundabound” not “roundabout”. Luckily a tape of the incident has been released and is now being watched around the galaxy…..
They may have even more problems later when they try the same thing with a linguistically challenged little green man ...