Researching the Renault voice synthesizers box i listend to A LOT of recordings of said boxes.

My native language is german. Listening to recorings of the german version of the synthesizers i noticed that the voice has an accent. I am still amazed that an american product can speak german with a very slight french accent. Thats crazy. 

Here is an example video where you can hear the german voice:

For non native speakers the differences from a slight accent will be probably not noticable (i think). I asked some german friends and they also hear the accent... so im not crazy :D ... Thats at least something...

I am a car guy. I love the electronics in cars. As long as i can remember i have watched car content on tv. And i remembered a old german car TV show with a moderator called "Paul Frère". An experienced race driver and an icon on car television at the time. A well remembered person that can be "trusted". Here is an example video. He starts Talking around 40 seconds into the video.

The accent of Paul sounds quite a lot like the accent of renaults cars. 

Probably i will never know if Renault has made a digital version of Paul. Thats 40 years ago and i have basically no hope to ever speak to somebody that knows it. I dont even know who is responsible for the Voice. Sagem (maker of the box), Texas instruments (maker of the voice synth) or Renault (maker of the car) ...

If you have any informations about this please let us know. I would love to find out more about this exremely specific detail from an nearly forgotten time...