Did you know the female SYNC voice has a name?
05-20-2014, 10:45 AM
#22
Beer Gut Extraordinaire
05-20-2014, 04:11 PM
#23
Hey everyone, you guys are hilarious!
Thank you for the afternoon laugh, I really needed that today.
Here are some helpful tips for speaking to Samantha on each system:
http://support.ford.com/sync-technol...k-to-sync-sync
http://support.ford.com/sync-technol...c-myford-touch
For those of you with the MyFord Touch system, you can open your phonebook contacts on screen and preview (listen) how she pronounces the name.
If you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to shoot me a PM.
Jaclyn
Thank you for the afternoon laugh, I really needed that today.
Here are some helpful tips for speaking to Samantha on each system:
http://support.ford.com/sync-technol...k-to-sync-sync
http://support.ford.com/sync-technol...c-myford-touch
For those of you with the MyFord Touch system, you can open your phonebook contacts on screen and preview (listen) how she pronounces the name.
If you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to shoot me a PM.
Jaclyn
05-20-2014, 04:44 PM
#24
On more meds than ymeski
I have a friend who has the dubious nickname of Booger. To be honest I have no idea how he got this name but anyway, on with the story.
It was a lovely fall night. My son and I had the windows down and were enjoying the 50 something degree weather. The boy said he was hungry so I pulled into Sonic and ordered 8 corn dogs since they were on sale for .50 each. The place was packed and everyone had their windows down and folks were sitting outside. After I ordered I put my debit card in and it was declined. Now I know something isn't right so I call my wife and found out that she was getting gas at the same time I tried to use the card. I was waiting on the gal to bring my food so she could run the card again and my wife had stopped by the bank's ATM and I told her to wait for me to call back in case I needed cash. So they run the card again and all is good. I push the button to call my wife "Heather" and SYNC says "Calling Booger". I forgot how loud I had the radio and the SYNC gal's voice carried through the calm late October night. I yell at Ms. SYNC "No you idiot, don't call Booger." My son looks over and asks "Why is the phone calling a booger?" The phone now shows that my call to Boog has gone through and I'm scrambling to turn it off while yelling at a computerized annoyance. "Stop calling Booger, I said Heather." "What is your problem, if I wanted to call Booger, I would have said BOOGER!" It was at this point that I remembered my windows were down and we had attracted the attention of at least a dozen people. I finally got the phone to hang up and got through to my wife but the damage was done. I had become the crazy guy talking to boogers.
It was a lovely fall night. My son and I had the windows down and were enjoying the 50 something degree weather. The boy said he was hungry so I pulled into Sonic and ordered 8 corn dogs since they were on sale for .50 each. The place was packed and everyone had their windows down and folks were sitting outside. After I ordered I put my debit card in and it was declined. Now I know something isn't right so I call my wife and found out that she was getting gas at the same time I tried to use the card. I was waiting on the gal to bring my food so she could run the card again and my wife had stopped by the bank's ATM and I told her to wait for me to call back in case I needed cash. So they run the card again and all is good. I push the button to call my wife "Heather" and SYNC says "Calling Booger". I forgot how loud I had the radio and the SYNC gal's voice carried through the calm late October night. I yell at Ms. SYNC "No you idiot, don't call Booger." My son looks over and asks "Why is the phone calling a booger?" The phone now shows that my call to Boog has gone through and I'm scrambling to turn it off while yelling at a computerized annoyance. "Stop calling Booger, I said Heather." "What is your problem, if I wanted to call Booger, I would have said BOOGER!" It was at this point that I remembered my windows were down and we had attracted the attention of at least a dozen people. I finally got the phone to hang up and got through to my wife but the damage was done. I had become the crazy guy talking to boogers.
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05-20-2014, 05:15 PM
#25
Senior Member
I have a friend who has the dubious nickname of Booger. To be honest I have no idea how he got this name but anyway, on with the story.
It was a lovely fall night. My son and I had the windows down and were enjoying the 50 something degree weather. The boy said he was hungry so I pulled into Sonic and ordered 8 corn dogs since they were on sale for .50 each. The place was packed and everyone had their windows down and folks were sitting outside. After I ordered I put my debit card in and it was declined. Now I know something isn't right so I call my wife and found out that she was getting gas at the same time I tried to use the card. I was waiting on the gal to bring my food so she could run the card again and my wife had stopped by the bank's ATM and I told her to wait for me to call back in case I needed cash. So they run the card again and all is good. I push the button to call my wife "Heather" and SYNC says "Calling Booger". I forgot how loud I had the radio and the SYNC gal's voice carried through the calm late October night. I yell at Ms. SYNC "No you idiot, don't call Booger." My son looks over and asks "Why is the phone calling a booger?" The phone now shows that my call to Boog has gone through and I'm scrambling to turn it off while yelling at a computerized annoyance. "Stop calling Booger, I said Heather." "What is your problem, if I wanted to call Booger, I would have said BOOGER!" It was at this point that I remembered my windows were down and we had attracted the attention of at least a dozen people. I finally got the phone to hang up and got through to my wife but the damage was done. I had become the crazy guy talking to boogers.
It was a lovely fall night. My son and I had the windows down and were enjoying the 50 something degree weather. The boy said he was hungry so I pulled into Sonic and ordered 8 corn dogs since they were on sale for .50 each. The place was packed and everyone had their windows down and folks were sitting outside. After I ordered I put my debit card in and it was declined. Now I know something isn't right so I call my wife and found out that she was getting gas at the same time I tried to use the card. I was waiting on the gal to bring my food so she could run the card again and my wife had stopped by the bank's ATM and I told her to wait for me to call back in case I needed cash. So they run the card again and all is good. I push the button to call my wife "Heather" and SYNC says "Calling Booger". I forgot how loud I had the radio and the SYNC gal's voice carried through the calm late October night. I yell at Ms. SYNC "No you idiot, don't call Booger." My son looks over and asks "Why is the phone calling a booger?" The phone now shows that my call to Boog has gone through and I'm scrambling to turn it off while yelling at a computerized annoyance. "Stop calling Booger, I said Heather." "What is your problem, if I wanted to call Booger, I would have said BOOGER!" It was at this point that I remembered my windows were down and we had attracted the attention of at least a dozen people. I finally got the phone to hang up and got through to my wife but the damage was done. I had become the crazy guy talking to boogers.
05-20-2014, 08:32 PM
#27
I must have the lone Samantha worth a damn, because she can both understand and repeat the last name "Voelkel" when I tell her to call my buddy. I thought for sure it'd throw her off the first time I called him.
For some reason she pronounces it completely different for his wife, though. Spelling is the same for each of them in my phone; she just decides she doesn't want to say it the right way for the Mrs. (though we still understand each other and she makes the call).
I have noticed that saying both first and last names regardless of how many of that name you have stored in your contacts helps her out...might be why one-word names like "Mom" throw her off.
For some reason she pronounces it completely different for his wife, though. Spelling is the same for each of them in my phone; she just decides she doesn't want to say it the right way for the Mrs. (though we still understand each other and she makes the call).
I have noticed that saying both first and last names regardless of how many of that name you have stored in your contacts helps her out...might be why one-word names like "Mom" throw her off.
05-20-2014, 08:47 PM
#28
Senior Member
I don't have a lot of problems with Sam (mine is Susan). The only thing I want to know is wear her damn ears are. That might make it easier when my windows are down. I can't find in the manual where they are.
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