We’ve got a great give away for you: you can win a TomTom Go 630 with the official Darth Vader GPS voice onboard here, at Engadget. What better way to turn your TomTom into an instrument of the Empire than have the Dark Lord of Sith direct you on your vacation! All you have to do is leave a comment and the winners will be pulled out of a virtual hat. If you fancy it, you can also enter our very own Darth Vader satnav voice giveaway here.

Be lucky.

Chris.

June 10th sees the launch of the official Star Wars C-3PO GPS voice. As with the Darth Vader gps voice launched on May 4th, this satnav voice promises to be just as exciting and innovative in the use of original Star Wars sound effects and music. The C3PO TomTom voice features the navigation talents of R2-D2! On a number of the commands you will hear Threepio ask for R2-D2’s opinion and even berate him when C3PO thinks he may have made a mistake – just like the classic Star Wars films! John Williams’ masterful main title theme tune from the Star Wars classic films is also subtly interwoven into the navigation commentary, making for a very uplifting and rich experience.

This TomTom GPS voice is distinctive, characterful and very entertaining to have in the car. Where Darth Vader is menacing, Homer Simpson goofy and Snoop just plain laidback, C-3PO is the supportive co-pilot you will want to drive around with time and time again, master.  All Star Wars fans should have this TomTom voice in their car; if you’ve already got Darth Vader then C3PO really is the perfect antidote to the Sith Lord.

So, enlist your TomTom ‘navi-computer’ in the Rebel Alliance and make sure you get the inside track;  subscribe to our newsletter and we will let you know the day  - may the moment – threepio is available for download onto your TomTom. And don’t forget, we will also be giving away free TomTom voice content voiced by C-3PO – including warning alerts, start up and shut down sounds as well as very cool wallpaper and a map icon pointer.

Chris.

If you haven’t see the TomTom Darth Vader gps voice viral video, you’re in for a treat. It really is genuinely entertaining. You can see it here on YouTube. It has been an immense success, with total viewings just short of the 1,000,000 mark. And that’s only after 7 days!! TomTom have done a really good job with this and clearly know how to respect a premium satnav voice like Darth Vader and other real celebrity GPS voices too, such as Snoop Dogg and Homer. [Shameless plug - all are available here!] All these voices are official, authentic and really do sound excellent. Beware of imitations!

By the way, the official Darth Vader gps voice comes with John Williams’ music, TIE fighter fly by noises and light sabers embedded into the navigation commentary. This is GPS voices as you’ve never heard them before! Enjoy.

Colin.

If you didn’t see Snoop on Larry King talking about his GPS voice, you missed a fun show! Larry loved the idea and even said he wants to create his own GPS voice. That would be cool…Now Snoop clearly loves his VoiceSkin and watching Jon Stewart’s, Larry King’s, Wendy Williams’s and Conan O’Brien’s responses to him speaking about it, we’d say they love it too! You can catch up on these videos at our YouTube channel here.

Anyhow, you can see Snoop discussing his GPS voice with Larry King here. And don’t forget to watch Snoop take Larry out for ride in the Snoopmobile here.

The new female TomTom Irish GPS voice: congratulations are due.

A few months ago we recorded Naoimh Touhy, the new female free GPS voice of TomTom Ireland. Naoimh had entered the Today FM radio competition to become the GPS voice of TomTom Ireland and, to her surprise, she came first out of a 1,000 entrants! She received a brand new car and a got to record her GPS voice at a recording session in Dublin, run by our good selves.

The VoiceSkins.com team just wanted to congratulate her on the milestone of over 3,000 TomTom celebrity voice downloads achieved in a very short space of time. Her voice is truly lovely and she was a real pleasure to work with. She seemed to grasp the essentials of voice-over work really quickly, which was very surprising as Naoimh had never set foot in a studio before. Naoimh is a natural talent and will hopefully go on to do other exciting voice-over work. She’s in illustrious company now, sitting along side the Snoop Dogg GPS voice and the original Homer Simpson GPS voices.

Well done Naoimh!

Note: Naoimh’s voice is a standard voice – not a TomTom celebrity voice – and will come preinstalled on all TomTom devices sold in Ireland from April 2010. You can download her free GPS voice here.