After recently launching its Tagalog navigation and voice command feature, Waze said Friday it was looking for a local male celebrity to lend his voice to the mobile navigation app.
Waze recently launched Adora, which gives directions in Filipino, to help drivers navigate through the busy streets. The voice is female.
“We are looking for our first male celebrity voice. We’d love to hear from netizens and people across the Philippines who they would want to hear navigate them around,” Waze Asia Pacific Lead Mona Weng told ABS-CBN News’ Market Edge host Cathy Yang.
The Tagalog voice command feature was designed in light of the recent Anti-Distracted Driving Act, which took effect earlier this month. The act bans drivers from touching their phones while behind the wheel.
“Adora,” meaning “beloved,” is an appropriate name for the app’s first Filipino-language voice, she said.
Weng said Wave also recently launched a “custom voice” option, allowing users to record their own voices for the navigation app.
While many Filipinos understand and speak English, Weng said she wanted to give Filipinos an option to use the language they’re more comfortable with. “It’s very useful, the Tagalog is straight. You can understand her better and it’s worth switching over to,” Sugar Valerio, a driver and a Waze user told ABS-CBN.
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With reports from ABS-CBN News
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