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at the bottom of the hill make a

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right continue straight

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ahead at the next intersection turn

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left my name is Karen Jacobson and I'm

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known as the only woman men will take

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directions from my speaking voice ended

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up in over a billion GPS and smartphone

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devices giving directions to to people

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around the world you have reached your

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destination well I'll take you right

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back to the beginning I'm originally

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from maai which is a town in North

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Queensland near Australia's Great

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Barrier Reef I wanted to become a

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professional singer and move to America

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and I did Follow That Dream to New York

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and not long after I moved there there

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was an audition and a client was looking

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for a native Australian female voiceover

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artist living in the northeast of the

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United States and I went to that

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audition and I got the job proceed to

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the roof proceed to the root proceed to

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the roof at the time I was told that the

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Australian voice was a high priority

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because the Australian accent was

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considered the most Pleasant

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englishspeaking accent to listen to

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which is pretty cool turn left at the

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roundabout turn right there was a huge

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scre script a massive script and the

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team of Engineers had figured out every

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combination of syllables possible for me

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to record so they could chop that up and

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create this voice system based on my

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speaking voice I went into the booth and

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recorded these different lines at the

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next intersection turn left at the

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roundabout turn right you have reached

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your destination what are some other

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ones let me think oh everybody's

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favorite recalculating but I had to say

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the word approximately

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approximately 168 times in a row there

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is a red light camera approaching I like

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to keep people

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safe when I'm asked to use the voice uh

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I do because it's

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fun my voice is going to live on forever

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wow the power is going to go to my head

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I mean that's mindblowing really isn't

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it

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you have reached your destination