Alan Macdonald, from the town, will become the first Scottish voice on Lidl’s checkout machines when his recordings go live on October 1. Lidl supermarket checkouts will have an Oban accentMore than 5,000 people submitted voice samples via WhatsApp, and more than 20,000 votes were cast to select the winner. “We’ve always been told the Oban accent is along those lines. Hearing an Oban accent will be ‘odd times 10’“I’m very proud to do it, very happy to do it, but it’ll be odd times 10,” he added. “You need to sound friendly, not authoritative, especially when telling someone they’ve not scanned something.