What's your favorite example of beep speech?

@Wooluu

4 жыл бұрын

Beep Beep Beep, Beep Beep Beep. But, Beep Beep Bop is good too, not as good, but good. But I hate bloop bob beep. It's just anoying.

@Mural

4 жыл бұрын

SANS UNDERTALE

@brittwicklund1752

4 жыл бұрын

Shovel knight!

@flare0080

4 жыл бұрын

Big Chungus for the PS4.

@Wooluu

4 жыл бұрын

Flare0080 Im actually more of big Chungus for the Xbox guy, cuz I like the original version.

me: *types number "0" in animal crossing* My console: "Zedo" me: :)

@Lina-nj9ys

4 жыл бұрын

Hearing the little sounds as you type is my biggest source of seratonin. If only my phone could make those little noises

@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888

4 жыл бұрын

:D

@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888

4 жыл бұрын

Lina Awny what is that

@carlgallagher8

3 жыл бұрын

I love the way it says 0

@melaniemartinezfan5

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

K.K sliders voice being slowed down makes me feel weirdly uncomfortable

@psychomanatee3459

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr, it was kinda creepy in a weird way

@aurabless7552

4 жыл бұрын

@@psychomanatee3459 demon kk slider

@kazmakazii

4 жыл бұрын

K.K. Slidin' into your dms like a creep

@aurabless7552

4 жыл бұрын

@@kazmakazii LOL

@quiksilvababe

4 жыл бұрын

Time mark?

When I was a kid and played The Sims, I thought they were speaking english (i'm portuguese)

@JayAreAitch

4 жыл бұрын

It sounds very much like North American English, being made in the USA.

@kcjm7345

4 жыл бұрын

I can see how you’d think that 😂 lmaooo im weak

@irrationalfearofpinworms

4 жыл бұрын

Alexandra Matias IMAGINE IF THATS HOW WE TALKED HAHAHAHA

@xPixelDreams

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! I'm French and as a kid I'd speak like that whenever I pretended to speak English.

@st.seraph

4 жыл бұрын

@@irrationalfearofpinworms Zimba do da par la. (I'd freaking DIE-)

I've noticed that when they have you type in Animal Crossing: New Horizon you can hear a little voice saying each letter you press. Didn't know they did something similar to the speech.

@aerolivin7346

4 жыл бұрын

and in new leaff :) like when you are writing letters, naming your town, writing names and such :)

@ppgabe

4 жыл бұрын

Same thing in Wild World, most likely in City Folk too.

@lauraschantz9058

4 жыл бұрын

The more I think about it and watch this video, the more convinced I am that it's all just Vocaloid. It would explain why the speech sounds like English, but with a Japanese accent.

@TWOhype23

4 жыл бұрын

Laura Schantz I think your onto something

@chrisbeach423

4 жыл бұрын

You can hear it more clearly in the original animal crossing! Every single letter and number you can perfectly hear.

I always thought that "beep speech" was mimicking the sound of words being typed out not a representation of the character's voice.

@chartreusewinds

4 жыл бұрын

yes i'm also confused by that interpretation

@ShadeGirl123

4 жыл бұрын

it's both

@JuanaRanaa

4 жыл бұрын

サラ if it was just words being typed it wouldn’t be different pitches depending on who’s talking I think...

@sydneyforrest9949

4 жыл бұрын

I think it started out as a way, like they said, to mimic listening while reading the text so you aren't bombarded with a ton of words and it feels more like you're listening to something while you read it. From there, video game developers interpreted it more as voices and (like Jeanne said) used different pitches depending on who is talking to represent that it is supposed to be the character's voice. From there, it's become what they mainly discussed, which is the Animal Crossing languages. Pretty cool stuff!

@jacobloewen7393

4 жыл бұрын

It sort of is? She greatly oversimplifies it here, but I think the gist is less “beeping is meant to represent speech in a primitive way” and more “the auditorial feedback gives the illusion of being spoken to.” It’s not meant to sound like speech, but the audio makes it feel like you’re listening rather than reading.

10:06 I never played animal crossing, and straight up thought he pulled a gun lmao.

@camel8599

4 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀💀

@seansimonalle8896

4 жыл бұрын

Dude me too

@esdrcftguybhijnkmolkmoijtd4865

4 жыл бұрын

Batabii The part that sticks out of his hand resembles a pistol

@esdrcftguybhijnkmolkmoijtd4865

4 жыл бұрын

Batabii Yes it does

@nah2489

4 жыл бұрын

Batabii calm down

this was fascinating. and i also thought that animal crossing creature pulled a gun hahaha

@MangoAVI

4 жыл бұрын

E

@sayabaq

4 жыл бұрын

omg we love legends supporting legends

@callmezeldaonemoartime

4 жыл бұрын

“Animal Crossing Creature*

@wrightcember3879

3 жыл бұрын

Duude, I love your music.

@ellagtherealg

3 жыл бұрын

Good that I’m not the only one...😂

The japanese version is just the actual japanese text being spoken but sped up to crackhead levels

@TheCapriciousG1rl-_-

3 жыл бұрын

Yea that sounds about right

@vvv____

3 жыл бұрын

same as the english version

@Astronaut_705

3 жыл бұрын

@@motomatt5040 Thats actually incorrect theres videos of them slowing down the english version and its gibberish with certain english key words. And I myself have played it for years both JP and EG ver

@Astronaut_705

3 жыл бұрын

@@vvv____ incorrect. Refer to my previous comment. Unless they changed it in new horizons its gebberish with certain english words

@Astronaut_705

3 жыл бұрын

@@motomatt5040 It's budderten to you,sir.

"Another strategy was to use vocal grunts, like sighs.. and yells.. and other non-language forms of communication." *"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH"*

@ArashiOdayakana

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, screaming. The most-powerful language of all.

@aquaticchaos1717

4 жыл бұрын

RedYoshikira That’s how Screaming Quagsire came to be

@decemberferret

4 жыл бұрын

A scream is a scream in any language

@viviaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

4 жыл бұрын

*HYAAAGH!*

@Cas_tkto

4 жыл бұрын

It's wednesday my dudes

I’m surprised nobody mentioned that time Brian David Gilbert spoke in perfect Animalese.

@dragonlorddracodenblaze

4 жыл бұрын

@@juliajolina I need to know too

@micheleposticcio5768

4 жыл бұрын

TELL US PLEASE

@louisbloom2737

4 жыл бұрын

@@micheleposticcio5768 twitter.com/karenyhan/status/1186068064716103680 Here it is.

@clicky4665

4 жыл бұрын

if we reveal it the consequences will be terrible

@ChocoreetoRin

4 жыл бұрын

Here it is! instagram.com/p/B34NqSpD1xb/?

I noticed this when I bought the English version (I watch Japanese let's players), and the characters sounded different. It's really strange that a game where no one actually speaks English is still technically dubbed into English.

@chanslaptop0

3 жыл бұрын

they speak clear english you can hear them clearly, each word

@michamicha1433

3 жыл бұрын

@@chanslaptop0 did you even watch the video ?

@chanslaptop0

3 жыл бұрын

@@michamicha1433 yeah

@StellarSaturn7440

3 жыл бұрын

Well they made things sound different because in certain languages things sound somewhat different. You know when you try to speak another language and your tongue can't seem to move correctly? Like the sounds you hear in English that you don't hear in other languages don't apply to others. So Nintendo switched it up so each language hears something familiar

I shouldn’t be watching a 14 minute documentary about a video game characters voice.

@strawberri5781

3 жыл бұрын

Correction: you *should* be

@montywoodside

2 жыл бұрын

Me neither… BUT IT’S SO INTERESTING I CAN’T RESIST

If you ever going to write a paper for this, please call it pseudophonetics. It's more sciency that way. Edit: Wow 14k likes, this is more internet cred than i would ever imagine.

@nonononononono5426

4 жыл бұрын

Psudeolinguisticphoneticismisms

@MisterAppleEsq

4 жыл бұрын

Genius.

@cactussenpai9625

4 жыл бұрын

Lowell Jeff sounds so *professional*

@maggiejakes7781

4 жыл бұрын

Get a good tyein

@maggiejakes7781

4 жыл бұрын

Im sorry

me: **playing animal crossing** literally any of my family members: wEeP weEp wHoMp bLop

@veryviper9209

4 жыл бұрын

“So, all you do is catch fish and pay back debt?”

@-spinel-7257

4 жыл бұрын

I bet your family is saying that they love you!

@nutella_wewerehere

4 жыл бұрын

“what do you do in this game”

@user-ci7ll3ir8f

4 жыл бұрын

VeryViper Gaming and Vlogs lol

@user-ci7ll3ir8f

4 жыл бұрын

North Wynd33 XD

10:07 Oh my God for a moment I thought Gulliver pulled out a gun on the player!

@yoyowonganimation8742

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@PerplexedPBJ

3 жыл бұрын

“As long as my communicator works again, everything will be alright!” **pulls out a frickin gun**

@czmxyt

3 жыл бұрын

when you refuse to give gulliver his communicator parts back:

"What is a man?" "A Jill Sandwich."

@Toytime87324

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Simple phrases like “Jolly Good” from Blathers and “Thank You” from Timmy and Tommy are the easiest to listen to.

@StellarSaturn7440

4 жыл бұрын

Or hearing The Dodo guy in the airport saying "Hello" or "Hey" is the easiest to hear

@venuswest1914

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

@starfalco13

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Nook saying “Hello, hello!” also sounds very similar to the text

@shane9245

4 жыл бұрын

And Sable saying “Oh you need to use the fitting room?” (well at least the beginning part)

@Rayne_of_Sunshine

4 жыл бұрын

And don't forget Tom's "Good, good, good!"

Anyone who’s played an animal crossing game has realized that the “language” was just reciting each letter in each sentence. It’s very easily recognizable when you type up a piece of mail. This is due to the fact that every letter you type, a voice will repeat it, and from then on you realize that whatever sentence said in game in the animal language were simply reciting letters.

@katiephelps4118

4 жыл бұрын

Nedekrug exactly this

@kennyizEmo

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think so when I talk to balthers I can hear him saying and same with Tom nook I can hear him saying yes yes and same with the other animals that live in my town

@SamPearman

4 жыл бұрын

@@kennyizEmo Seriously? What do you think Y, E, and S sound like when played together.

@saraw2125

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@saraw2125

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Pearman bro I get the point you are trying to make, but the name calling was unnecessary and kinda rude

I actually lose the ability to distinguish language when listening to music. I literally cannot hear english when people sing, nor can I learn lyrics by listening. I looked this up & it was surprisingly more common than I expected.

@syrupfreak6655

4 жыл бұрын

Lieutenant BaconWaffles yOOO I CAN UNDERSTAND SOME THINGS IF I LISTEN ENOUGH BUT I CONSTANTLY HAVE TO LOOK UP THE LYRICS I’m glad I’m not the only one!!!

@averyk7

4 жыл бұрын

I always seem to learn majority of lyrics of a song after listening to it once lol after a few listens I can understand almost all lines and sing along. Only exception is rapping. I cannot for the life of me understand a single thing people sing if they’re rapping.

@melanie9674

4 жыл бұрын

Lieutenant BaconWaffles wait omg what...i thought that everyone was like that

@sion8

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, me too!

@otakumultifandom

4 жыл бұрын

I used to feel this way when watching movies without subtitles sometimes.

Interesting. I never thought of beeps as speech in old games. I assumed they were just a sound effect for typing.

@midnightgamer2158

3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@AvocadoToast06

3 жыл бұрын

Same actually

when you type, you can hear the cute little “o, e, t,” with any letter honestly

@null418

4 жыл бұрын

ou, i, tee

@katwaii5627

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure about English because of phonetics and stuff but you can really hear some full sentences sometimes in Spanish, it's pretty cool

@tiphjyi5524

4 жыл бұрын

@@katwaii5627 same in french

@katwaii5627

4 жыл бұрын

@@tiphjyi5524 that's nice! I've always liked how French sounds but know nothing about it's phonetics

@tiphjyi5524

4 жыл бұрын

@@katwaii5627 spanish and french sound similar at some point

I always thought "beep speech" was ment to represent the clickity-clacking of typing on a keyboard or typewriter, rather than trying to mimic speech at all.

@itsyaboi_scoopsahoy3071

4 жыл бұрын

dude same

@ArcticKitten

4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@lisaslover6274

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@notgray88

4 жыл бұрын

Dude I just bought a typewriter (1980 Royal Academy) and I can't hear it without thinking about how it reminds me of characters talking in video games, especially since there is a pause between words.

@itryan9962

4 жыл бұрын

same

In the french version of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, without looking at the screen and simply hearing the characters, i can recognize what they are saying most of the time...

10:07 I thought he pulled up a gun like ‘I ain’t taking no more shit of yours’

Short version that directly answers the question: Linguists find that it's more comforting to whisper sweet nothings similar to your own language

@LilChikyChan

4 жыл бұрын

Saved me 14 minutes, thank you 👌

@kentonrune6621

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This video is waaaaayyyy too long

@myles432

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks👌👍

@manjackson2772

4 жыл бұрын

Short version that misses out on an interesting history lesson.

@AbsurdAsparagus

4 жыл бұрын

@@LilChikyChan y'all types are weird.

Ok this seems like a good a place as any to address the fact that there are, in fact, TWO known languages in the sims: Simlish, and Scots. Sims can clearly be heard singing "Auld Lang Syne" at new years, entirely in simlish EXCEPT for the titular line of the song, implying the existence of a history of spoken Scots at some point in the linguistic timeline of the sims that pervaded simlish in much the way it did english

@WildWaver

4 жыл бұрын

Oh dip! I never let my Sims have a new years party because of the bugginess of Father Time and Toddler New Year I might have to try it now!

@Jhud69

4 жыл бұрын

Simlish also has quite a few words borrowed from slavic languages which is unfortunate because a lot of them are swear words

@vanillune

4 жыл бұрын

Viktor Chmiel what do you mean? Thats great lol

@MystyPixie

4 жыл бұрын

They also completely revamped the language in the Sims Medieval and made Old Simlish. It sounds very different and they made it closer to languages such as French

@guywith_dog

4 жыл бұрын

can bdg get on this

When we type it’s bebebese and when the animals talk its animalese

Me when the animal crossing characters talk: *random robot sound*

This is so interesting! And "bebebese" is the cutest phrase I've ever heard

@polygon

4 жыл бұрын

IT'S SO CUTE

@MisterAppleEsq

4 жыл бұрын

bebebebebebebebebebebebese It's cuter now. It has more letters.

@sixtyfps

4 жыл бұрын

*term (sorry)

@thegreensunsetgroup2501

4 жыл бұрын

@@MisterAppleEsq it's somehow less cute with that much repetition but maybe it's just me.

@SongbirdOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

@@thegreensunsetgroup2501 Okay but imagine an Animal Crossing character saying it

I could swear I remember Tom Nook saying “Yes yes” in wild world. Edit: To clarify, he says “Yes yes” aloud in Animalese-English. But she says it’s the same as the Japanese version.

@antoniav4133

4 жыл бұрын

He does in New Horizons too!!! For real. It is impossible that it's a coincidence

@beanyolk

4 жыл бұрын

spell 'y e s' out loud faster than humanly possible, through a walkie talkie, through a phone from the 90s, through a grocery store intercom. it's gonna sound like you just said 'yes' lol

@bluerious5475

4 жыл бұрын

CrazyPangolinLady It’s cause of the way animalese works making certain words sound like words. (Especially words like “Yo” and “So”)

@kitcat2449

4 жыл бұрын

Blathers too

@connor8292

4 жыл бұрын

IIRC the English version pronounces each letter as it comes up, so certain words would sound like they way they should due to the similar phonetics.

10:05 It's pretty noticable in Russian version of New Horizons. Sometimes it sounds like my villagers actually say some phrases! Especially "Что? Это мне?" when you give them something.

@skilledsquid965

4 жыл бұрын

What does that mean

@maggiethegamer1271

4 жыл бұрын

Skilled Squid965 I speak a certain Slavic language, it means “What? For me?”

Narrator: *started another explanation* Narrator's head: ↪️

Correction: In City Folk and Wild World, the voice synthesis was still called Animalese. Bebebese was actually the name given to an alternative voice option that replaced the voice synthesis with normal beep speech. They were given these names so the first letters would align as “Option A” and “Option B”

@antonioaguirre5464

4 жыл бұрын

Now I understand. So that means she made a small mistake, right?

@lyrakae

4 жыл бұрын

Also in french we call it yogurt for some reason!

@visualeyesmusic

4 жыл бұрын

Antonio Aguirre yes. Up until about the halfway point, everything is fine, but her assumption that bebebese replaced animalese throws the rest of the video off

@RainbowEssence-c3w

4 жыл бұрын

It actually goes all the way back to the Gamecube game, I remember playing Animal Crossing on my Gamecube as a kid and there were options to change the voices the animals used to Animalese (the one most people are familiar with), Bebebese (basically just little blips), or Silent.

@summysums

4 жыл бұрын

yeah I remember looking at the settings in wild world and you can change the language from animalese and bebebese. As soon as she said that in the vid the rest of the info was confusing to me

“And other forms of non-language speech” link: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

@Roaming2390

4 жыл бұрын

You mean Jacksepticeye

i always thought the beeps were just high pitch-ed typing sounds

10:08 For a second I thought Gulliver pulled out dat stick on him, lmao

@ToriCake95

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO DAT STICK 🤣

@whyareyourunninga6782

4 жыл бұрын

it’s gun not stick

@ToriCake95

4 жыл бұрын

@@whyareyourunninga6782 Stick is slang for gun

On the fact that gibberish is depending on the language, that's totally true. The sims language is not localised as it's supposed to be kind of universal, but when you speak another language, it's really clear that it's based on English. I'm French and I played the game in French, and it really sounds like gibberish English, not a specific language.

@WingedAsarath

4 жыл бұрын

It's also disconcerting as a non-American English speaker. Simlish is really obviously American sounding, and it kinda breaks my immersion.

@JonathanPaulin

4 жыл бұрын

Accent américains oui, mais les mots sont fortement inspiré du Français, du Hongrois et de plusieurs autres langues. Y'a des documentaires ultra intéressant sur le simlish déjà sur youtube.

@darcieclements4880

4 жыл бұрын

I only speak English and it was super obvious that it was English based gibberish to me too, not even english, American English specifically. Actually, I'd go as far as to say west coast American English.

@sabinajoh

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe not English but germanic sounding? I’m swedish and I remember hearing words that sounded swedish, rather than english. French isn’t in the germanic languages group so if you only know english from that group maybe simlish more easily sounds like english?

@rebekl

4 жыл бұрын

Sabont Magont I‘m German and it is definitely based on American English

this video is really speaking my language

@polygon

4 жыл бұрын

hey....

@MisterAppleEsq

4 жыл бұрын

*rimshot*

@pinkajou656

2 жыл бұрын

BUH DUM TSSSSSSSH

When she slowed down k.k's speech, It was actually kinda scary

I kinda knew they were speaking English since I named my character "Moo Moo" and everytime the animals use the name in their dialogue, I always hear "Momo"

@humanburrito8378

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god that is so creepy 😳

@almondleafy4761

3 жыл бұрын

They always pronounce my name like "Anya". They are just missing the 't'.

@josefujosta

3 жыл бұрын

same, my name is “bee” in the game and whenever they say it, the word is really clear

@gisele5708

3 жыл бұрын

@@josefujosta "pee"

@pinkajou656

3 жыл бұрын

That’s so awesome

10:07 for half a second I definitely thought Gulliver was pulling a gun on him

@Sharon_Hocutt

4 жыл бұрын

The communicator DOES look like a gun. Thanks for pointing that out.

@Sharon_Hocutt

4 жыл бұрын

@@thumpdragfilms no

@falcononthesax

4 жыл бұрын

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT

@jeroenritmeester73

4 жыл бұрын

imgur.com/a/FtNyv5W Dont know why I made this

@Sharon_Hocutt

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeroenritmeester73 Nice work, my friend.

I KNEW I HEARD REAL WORDS. Edit- thanks for the gold kind stranger

@whalesharko4465

4 жыл бұрын

My brother and I were gonna slow it down and check as a joke... I wish we had now

@msmx9088

4 жыл бұрын

Source same

@lunarqi

4 жыл бұрын

Whale Sharko their voices actually sound really creepy slowed down xD

@t4ky0n

4 жыл бұрын

@Ulala Ingo dude, why?

@solarprogeny6736

4 жыл бұрын

i always listen and hear that the last vowels sounds are the same as the text

Yeah... undertale did the same. But with mouth noises like “ehh” and “err”

@ilovehirohamada003

3 жыл бұрын

ehh and err remind me of the box (ee er)

“Beep Speech” Me: *Undertale*

Honestly I thought Animalese was a synthesizer spelling the words really fast, like the door chimes in acnl. This makes more sense though.

@aj7842

4 жыл бұрын

same lol, since the scrips are already translated in spanish, french, german, russian, korean, etc it would make sense to run them through synthesizers as well

@spacequeenexe6256

4 жыл бұрын

i thought it was comfirmed as that b/c when you type letters there’s a female (?) animal spelling it out and if i listened hard enough, it sounded like they were spelling

@beawolfe

4 жыл бұрын

Alice Sadler That's why I thought it too, the animals fooled us

@Dynamaik0220

4 жыл бұрын

It is. This video is factually wrong.

@yay3101

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I swear I can hear some words!

"localized animalese can make you feel more comfortable and at home" me, having to play the english version every time: _laughs in a language that never gets localized_

@cutecommie

4 жыл бұрын

Every language with more than 100000000 speakers tends to get a proper localisation. Just make a lot of children.

@mr.platypus280

4 жыл бұрын

Queefling if you don't have enough followers, homemade ones are fine

@Miluna284

4 жыл бұрын

@@cutecommie lol

@helenemaja0912

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, except I play animal crossing in japanese this time as the switch have the japanese language

@phage7889

4 жыл бұрын

What language do you speak natively lmao

I think one of the best and most effective examples of "beep speech" (or bebebese as Animal Crossing calls it) is how its used in Undertale. Fans and cosplayers were able to unanimously decide how each main character sounded based solely on the timbre of the speech sound (for example, Papyrus text speech and personality resulted in everyone choosing 'Skeletor' as a basis for his voice in regular speech.)

Tell me how the fuck she did that "Hey, listen!" So perfectly

I can definitely tell there's English words peppered in whe I'm talking to villagers. Especially when talking to someone like Blathers who says the same thing over and over. Marevlous becomes "Marvelu!", and Jolly Good becomes "Jolly Goo!" Also, Blathers is best boy. That is all.

@stevethepocket

4 жыл бұрын

In the original, you could tell when he said "Bleah." It was adorable.

@Henry-qt3py

4 жыл бұрын

In NH at least, the villagers just say each letter individually speed up. You can tell when you type in the game

@c.ccarlhead5744

4 жыл бұрын

AHH omg when he says that disappointed "ah, I see.." when you ask him to tell you bug facts is the CUTEST THING!!!

@sillypastry333

4 жыл бұрын

L haha I it’s so funny when he does that

@MamboCat84

4 жыл бұрын

I can definitely hear Blathers say "Le me see hyar. Hahummmm. Indidu." When I give him a fossil. I've also noticed my villagers pronounce my name "membocattu" which I thought was so Japanese lmao

I can actually speak the English version. It's a special talent of mine.

@gzs98

4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@dragonlorddracodenblaze

4 жыл бұрын

Flexing on peasants

@inblooks

4 жыл бұрын

brian david gilbert? is that you?

@tedioustotoro4885

4 жыл бұрын

Please record it

@crabeatcrab6011

4 жыл бұрын

so can brian david gilbert, he did it in a video on instagram

5:10 The editor messed up. This is from the remake, twin snakes, on the GameCube.

10:30 It sounds to me that prior Animalese English localization was pronounced with an English voice bank, but the one in New Horizons sounds like it is using Japanese katakana and Japanese voice bank to mimic English words. Using the same voice bank technology license may decrease localization costs. Because the alphabets work differently, there are some odd pronunciations. "I" in English works because it is pronounced the same as アイ (ai), but the "ct" in "Direct" cannot be replicated accurately in katakana. Instead, it may sound like ダイレクト (Dairekuto) since Japanese uses coupled sounds instead of individual vowels and consanants as English does. Oddly, this Animalese sounds like it is using the "-u" variation for consanants where normally you would put the "-o" variation, so "Dairekuto" becomes "Dairekutu." It's not really how you should write the katakana, but the application seems consistent enough to be recognizable.

Bebebese and animalese are two different Animal Crossing “languages”. In Wild World, you could choose your settings to be one or the other. Bebebese is a more standard, bubbly-sounding “beep speech”

@UnkleSanik

4 жыл бұрын

It's also present in City folk, but you had to directly change it from the phone rather than the menu.

@Morphdog9819

4 жыл бұрын

First instance of it was in the GameCube version. Maybe even the N64 Animal Forest, too, but we’ll never know because no one played that one.

@natalie-cu3to

4 жыл бұрын

You know what, be a doll and spare the lecture.

@Anikinoro

4 жыл бұрын

@@natalie-cu3to be a doll and get out if something doesn't interest you, instead of being rude

@natalie-cu3to

4 жыл бұрын

Kino ..no I was quoting beetlejuice the musical, since this person has characters from the musical as their profile picture. The name of this person is the start of a section of the song where Lydia says ‘Beetlejuice, beetlejuice be a doll and spare the lecture.’ So I was simply quoting. Sorry for any.. pain I may have caused towards you?

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, my villager Rowan LITERALLY says "mango" as his catchphrase, and I can hear it.

@dinarashukayeva2774

4 жыл бұрын

Haha i got rowan too!

@lily-oj5ge

4 жыл бұрын

I can hear Orville say "Hey hey Hey!"

@isabelchmontuenga

4 жыл бұрын

I got frita and has "ewe" as a catchphrase... the damn problem it that me and some friends do the uwu stuff ironically, so whenever her catch phrase appears i cant not ear it

@MrFatCock

4 жыл бұрын

Roman gang rise

@-spinel-7257

4 жыл бұрын

Rowan: "MANGO!"

"University of Oregon" Oh finally, we're being mentioned without having football involved.

@LC-kf1kb

4 жыл бұрын

Go Oregon! I was so excited when I saw U of O being mentioned!

This is such an informative and documentary of something I've always wondered about. Thank you

In french, we actually have a noun to describe this kind of "language", that doesn't exist in english: It's called "yaourt", which literally means yoghurt. So Tom Nook speaks in yoghurt... see your own metaphor here.

@mudz2d397

4 жыл бұрын

Jacky Daxter wow, could you tell me more about yaour?

@BadWebDiver

4 жыл бұрын

Would that include Beaker's language from The Muppets; or nonsense languages like those used in animated series like Aardman's Pingu, and the Teletubbies?

@jackydaxter2220

4 жыл бұрын

@@BadWebDiver not really, whereas Beaker just says "mememe" or the Aarman's Pingu makes just sounds like onomatopoeia, talking in yaourt is meant to simulate something that could be a real language. The best example is the Sims. As a kid I was actually wondering for years what languages they were using until I knew the truth ^^.

@jackydaxter2220

4 жыл бұрын

@@mudz2d397 I discovered that during the 1960's there was a jazz singing style called " scat ". Whereas Scat has a musical purpose, yaourt is meant to simulate a regular conversation. I don't think that the people who created that jazz thing were thinking about the french notion of yaourt language, but it's interesting to compare the two. I put you a link below of scat singing example: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpaAm9irZLSYfLg.html

@MrEmilecraft

4 жыл бұрын

@@mudz2d397 It can also be used to describe when someone sings a song but doesen't remember the lyrics, they sing Yaourt

I’m english, and simlish sounds really american to me.

@r0xyepis0de4

4 жыл бұрын

Sammit if u play sims medieval they sound english

@sfdgdrgdvxff

4 жыл бұрын

@@r0xyepis0de4 this reads like a joke but I have a feeling you're serious

@MM-kq6fe

4 жыл бұрын

It's most likely because the voice actors are American and they all have an American accent. I'm a Spaniard majoring in English and from my point of view (a non native speaker who invests a lot of time in English) they also sound too obviously American to me.

@lovepuppy4627

4 жыл бұрын

@@sfdgdrgdvxff dude are you kidding me? nah that's 100% english

@pleasesetmeonfire1166

4 жыл бұрын

I believe that’s probably because the game was made by Americans. Lots of stuff in the game is also very American, like the way their schools works and stuff. The game seems to be almost set in a slightly altered version of America.

The beeping when letters appear comes from how typewriters work. the IBM selectric was still popular when NES was around, and people were used to hearing clicks and clacks when letters appeared. It was just common for developers to add typewriter (or other) sounds when you typed in a game, or when the game typed on its own. Keep in mind a simple sin wave beep is WAY simpler than an actual typewriter sound effect (this is why you see beeps on NES carts).

I love this video & it affirmed why I love Polygon so much!

Just a clarification: the speeding up isn’t the main thing ruining the English prosody in animalese, it’s mostly that the synthesized voice is almost entirely monotone, and (at least within a phrase) has no emphasis. Every syllable recurved the same pitch and stress, whereas in English (and almost all other languages) those things differ greatly and are vital to understanding the language. Those are the real elements of prosody that animalese purposely butchers.

@noodletribunal9793

4 жыл бұрын

Japanese is not as tonally diverse as English(from my understanding) so maybe Japanese animalese sounds even more similar to real speech than English.

@mariefurukawa2627

4 жыл бұрын

I'm willing to bet they're just using the Japanese voice synthesizer and inputting English phonetically into it (hence the english "I" being pronounced as "ai"), so the pronounciation is heavily Japanese-accented which is why it's not really legible sped up and sounds weird slowed down.

@AndromedaCripps

4 жыл бұрын

@@noodletribunal9793 I was thinking that as well, but I didn't feel as confident enough about that memory as I did about the emphasis one XD Thanks!

@mariushagelskjr5452

4 жыл бұрын

@@noodletribunal9793 hey there noodle tribunal, I'm playing どうぶつの森 in Japanese and to me although the gibberish being said is very close to the Japanese texts it feels like they jump over some of the words or maybe replace them with nonsense. But perhaps that's just because it's going so fast. But in this video, there was a slowed down Japanese text and talk which confirmed my theory that some of the words are removed or replaced with gibberish

@noodletribunal9793

4 жыл бұрын

@@mariushagelskjr5452 oh, yea, sure. it's gibberish! but the Japanese version's gibberish is closer to identifyable Japanese than the English is to identifyable English, you know? i think this because not only is Japanese relatively monotone, but because it doesn't contain complicated multi-part sounds that English does. it's all some variation on "A I U E O". no dipthongs or whatever those things are called lol. i didn't mean to say that they just straight up used Japanese (ヽ´ω`)

Okay, I knew that the animalese was localized, but here’s a weird thing: I don’t think they localized the speech on the radio. I clearly hear things like “konbanwa” and “ogenki desu ka” from the radio in my character’s house.

@Boooo

4 жыл бұрын

Simple, the radio is tuned into a japanese radio station. You're character is canonically a weeb

@DeepFriedFrenz112

4 жыл бұрын

BooMan Next up, the meaning of life

@jasmin2775

4 жыл бұрын

A bunch of the songs they play on the radio in New Horizon are songs that were used in the GameCube version. Which I'm assuming are the same songs used in the N64 Japanese version.

@jasmin2775

4 жыл бұрын

@@masonsaccount I personally like Forest Life cause it's so nostalgic. I use to have a kid's room in the old game and had the Ska song cause it was so fun.

@mascarponies

4 жыл бұрын

BooMan morioh cho radiooo

Imagine animal crossing as a arcade game, you’d just live there forever, feeding it coins endlessly

to me it looks like animal crossing sound is made that way : when you select your name each letter you select has a digitized version a, b, c, and so on . looks like Animal crossing language is the reading of all the letters very fast. For example Good day would be phonetically : "gee,o,o, dee, dee, a, why" said very fast. I have this feeling

Auralboros? At this time of year? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your game? ...May I see it?

@thedishonorablewizardthorn2486

4 жыл бұрын

Flare0080 mm, no.

@joelsmith3473

4 жыл бұрын

Ouroboros, not auralboris or Aurora Borealis

@smartbunny

4 жыл бұрын

It’s just the Northern Lights, mother.

@cawashka

4 жыл бұрын

“Aural Boris”

@Corbomite_Meatballs

4 жыл бұрын

No. You haven't finished your steamed hams.

You guys showed a clip of soul blazer!! :D love that game!

When typing in animal crossing, you can hear the animalese pronunciation of that letter, so I think that has something to do with how they sound different, since obviously Japanese has different characters than English and therefore will pronounce words differently. The pronunciations are just off enough to sound strange when put together, so that’s probably why it doesn’t sound like English all of the time. I mean, apart from the fact that certain letters can be pronounced differently depending on the word. An example is when Blathers says “Jolly Good” when you talk to him in New Horizons and respond to his usual opening question with “I’m fine.” It sounds so similar to the actual pronunciation of the words “Jolly good” in English, which pops out when listening to the rest of his lines, but is just off enough to be questionable. Basically, long story short, animalese letters sound similarly to either English or Japanese depending on the version, but when put together, they usually don’t sound like that language, which makes it seem more different than it is.

Therapist: Slowed down K.K. isn't real, it can't hurt you. Slowed down K.K.: 6:49

I noticed back in wild world even that when you wrote an in game letter, the game says the name of the letter you are typing. Every letter in animalese is basically pronounced as its name, then sped up to sound natural

I was hoping for more direct comparison. I wanted to hear how prosody is expressed through more examples. Cool research and explanation. Good video :)

Esto me hace recordar a cuando veo películas en el cine, antes se doblaban todas las expresiones y ahora las dejan en inglés y la diferencia es notoria porque hasta suenan distintos los micrófonos

Playing animal crossing in Spanish, I kinda understand what they’re saying mostly because they say words one phoneme at a time and vowels are very distinct

@boghund

4 жыл бұрын

Same in Russian!

@mikuenjoyerXD

4 жыл бұрын

It's really cute when you start to recognize when the villagers say your name

@macaronitony93

4 жыл бұрын

also bc spanish speakers already talk as fast as animalese lmao

@tovi3280

4 жыл бұрын

Red truuuuuu

@someoneuniverse5663

4 жыл бұрын

yeah i play in french and i do hear what they say (kinda)

Sometimes when I talk to blathers it sounds like a real person, just sped up

@elizabethnagy3884

4 жыл бұрын

yes same! especially at the end of his sentences

Often, the English characters do actually speak English except very quickly.

This video was so much work and we can tell! Thank you so much for it, I appreciate it a lot! 💗

im pretty sure that the “english” sounds are put through japan’s syllabic system before being further garbled. that’s why some vowels are completely different. it’s as if you asked google translate to read english through a japanese voice and then sped it up. it would read certain vowels based on japan’s rules but for english words

@notatallheng

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed; at 10:27 you can hear Nook open with "gu-ri-i-tei-n-gu-zu".

@MedievalSerf

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I always figured it was like how vocaloids work where it's English characters being said by a Japanese voice synthesizer

@lara-cc6bf

4 жыл бұрын

that's exactly how it works, the video's incorrect

@KIager

4 жыл бұрын

It's a voice synthesizer that they feed the script to. It wasn't "dubbed," it was fed the English script. Leave it to Polygon to make a video proclaiming an answer to their own question, admit they don't have it, then contact an expert who wouldn't know how those things were handled in the video game space anyway, but still use their input to formulate their own answer to the question they originally claimed to have answered in the clickbait title. All in a week's well-paid work, only at Polygon!* *and Kotaku.

@nuhaomar9542

4 жыл бұрын

😭 that’s so cute

10:06 I straight up thought Gulliver pulled a gun on him!

@kirsikkasydan

4 жыл бұрын

Me too 😂

@POTATOEH81

4 жыл бұрын

It's easy to mistake any long dark object being pulled out of the waist for a gun

@topsyturvy1097

4 жыл бұрын

Gulliver.

@mongoosedoesmagic6478

4 жыл бұрын

Topsyturvy10 autocorrect

@IsomerMashups

4 жыл бұрын

Same.

This is so cool! Thank you for sharing this with us!

It’s cool to find this kind of video, because just a few days ago I was playing AC pocket camp, and I was talking to some villagers and as I was reading the text I noticed it sounded like the actual things the villagers were saying. So yeah cool video :3

In the Spanish version you can tell they're talking sped up Spanish, they ARE speaking the words they're saying

@AnfrersAyyLmao

4 жыл бұрын

Huh, really?? Like, I've never heard that, played the Gamecube one and Wild World in spanish, then the others in english. I swear they sound the same.

@seavanodelot

4 жыл бұрын

really? I think it's a mix in some words, like Spanglish xD

@linkwtf4227

4 жыл бұрын

Same in italian

Bruh I thought I was crazy for hearing actual words when the AC characters were speaking

i love how they sound in the newest game cuz it makes them feel more alive. the cranky villager voices is a huge step up from new leaf/pocket camp imo. also their unique voices for each personality makes it way easier to identify them.

The way each character is pronounced makes a lot more sense in Japanese, where every character represents one syllable of speech

I'm a linguist and science communicator and I must compliment both the expert and the host on how well made and entertaining this video is!! Great job!!

@agjakku

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, I just wanted to say that you are awesome, your job is really important, and people like you are what made me love science! I'm hoping to one day be a science communicator myself!

@CyanAnn

4 жыл бұрын

ooh cool job!!

@DiamondRocksIt

4 жыл бұрын

Well they are incorrect about the information

@blaizecramer6052

4 жыл бұрын

@@DiamondRocksIt which information in particular? I'm curious now?

@rannaartha5951

4 жыл бұрын

DiamondRockStar yeah elaborate

when you're typing something out, the little sfx that play are the sounds of whatever letter you're typing! ah, bee, cee etc.

@gwenethp511

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! I always figured it sounded like japanese in the japanese version (あ, い, う, え, お, etc.) So this video was a helpful add on!

@eggeggeggegg6019

4 жыл бұрын

Whenever ac gives me the option to type something i always type urapp

@abrahamo2895

4 жыл бұрын

egg egg egg egg you are a peepee

@veezty

4 жыл бұрын

The “L” sounds like “R”

@KattLover5412

4 жыл бұрын

Yesss I love that noise

This was a really interesting and fun video. Learned some things. I've played every AC game since GameCube, but never realized that the spoken language actually changed between the games.

“Butts butts butts butts “wow amazing computer words 👌

“What is a man?” is a mistranslation??? Damn I thought it was just good writing.

@wyredaftsquall

4 жыл бұрын

The what is a man speech is actually from something else that someone wrote. I don't remember the author's name though.

@Kryptnyt

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know why it's divisive at all, sure it's hammy, but they're having a great time and it's iconic

@captnBill_

4 жыл бұрын

this entire dialogue is one huge mistranslation "what is a man, a miserable little pile of secrets" is just a cool quote from some french author iirc, that the localization dude decided to add

@pentagonofpeople

4 жыл бұрын

Not a mistranslation, just an unbelievably hammy read.

@TheLaXandro

4 жыл бұрын

japanese: boring generic power vs friendship shit english: melancholic dracula has a minor existential crisis and tells belmont to sod off

Before I watch this: my guess was always that they made the sounds of each letter and sometimes that works out to actually sound like the words.

@princessaria

4 жыл бұрын

Kimberly same, that’s what it sounds like to me.

@yanfeimain9135

4 жыл бұрын

That’s what it is actually it’s not nonsense

@MisterAppleEsq

4 жыл бұрын

Same! I'm pretty sure they do that for user-inputted stuff, because one of my characters always sounded like "App-leh".

@aerospherology2001

4 жыл бұрын

Syllables put into a blender then stitched together

@chantolove

4 жыл бұрын

I think that’s what it does for stuff like your name!

I'm impressed how you went so far to list the differences and on the origin of the concept

Thank you for your hard work and research

Meanwhile, pokemon sword and shield: *silence*

@imnotarobotiswearijustwann1869

4 жыл бұрын

Sad piers noises

@anakruger2412

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I swear they told me to choose what language voices would be in but I don't remember hearing any voices.

@moofy69

4 жыл бұрын

Because Pokemon stagnated back in gen4

@razrv3lc

4 жыл бұрын

Evanor Gen 5 was good and ORAS was good in Gen 6 but for the most part, it really has stalled out

@moofy69

4 жыл бұрын

@@razrv3lc sure they were entertaining, but they didnt do anything groundbreakingly different fron the prior gems apart from graphical updates

During one cut scene in new horizons, Tom nook says "Timmy, Tommy, ..." And I swear it's in plain English. No attempt to make it not sound like the actual words was made. I forget what he said after that, but it also sounded pretty close to real words. Just sped up a lot.

@priscillamartin7815

4 жыл бұрын

I think they added some English or something. There's some words that you can clearly understand

@aleighaombas

4 жыл бұрын

I was naming a design a while ago and whenever I clicked a letter (obviously to name my design) I swear I heard the animals saying the letters in English!!!

@beanyolk

4 жыл бұрын

after taking japanese language class in high school and forgetting a huge chunk of what I learned, then spending the past 4 years of my life binging anime to catch up on my inescapable weebness, I can't help but notice this with common wasei-eigo phrases like 'number 1'

@bradleybroom6446

4 жыл бұрын

I've always heard the letters being spoken when I type, but I also always thought I was losing my mind

@beesree39

4 жыл бұрын

Talk to Blathers and leave and he very clearly says "jolly good". He and Nook are easy to understand

2:35 No man, you're thinking of bee boo boo bop, boo boo bop.

every time i type a letter i guess i can i can kinda hear its rightful sound in english a: a b: b and etc

Everyone's talking about Sans but no one's talking about how Sans is literally Patrick Star's voice chopped up

@toastarkat

4 жыл бұрын

Wait fr?

@ShadeGirl123

4 жыл бұрын

@@toastarkat yep it genuinely is a sample from Patrick star!

@raphaelsanchez7386

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe it’s the way you’re dressed.

@SpecSwamp

4 жыл бұрын

Raphael Sanchez can you use a different Patrick clip for the same results?

@raphaelsanchez7386

4 жыл бұрын

@@SpecSwamp No, because Smash Ultimate.

Was expecting Sans to show up in the beep speech section

@koikoi1354

4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@kitkatboard

4 жыл бұрын

Uhuhuhuhuh uhuhuhuhuh uhuhuhuhuhh

When the Spore Space-Stage Ally said "RUMPIOLIO HUMPOON AN A-RUMPIOLIOOO!" I felt that 😔

Thank you for this! I love your content!! I hope to listen to you explain things to me more often :)