I remember in the earlier games you could change the language, between Animalese, Bebebese, and Silence. Bebebese sounds like the text sound in game when people are not speaking.

@Random-oy7vk

Жыл бұрын

Wait, really? I didn't know about that change

@TBaker-xu5is

Жыл бұрын

@@Random-oy7vk Yeah. You use the phone in the highest room and can change it there, at least in the first game - I can't remember how it was done in the following games, but I think it was the same. One of the wikis say it was in Wild World and City Folk/Let's Go to the City.

@ModernButSimple

Жыл бұрын

In french, i think the animalese language was called "yoghurt"

@MeleeGamer

Жыл бұрын

@@TBaker-xu5is I can confirm that it's the same in Wild world.

@Rossmaclellan101

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember you can do that in Wild World and City Folk (the Wii one)

I play in English and my mom plays in Dutch, and we often play side by side. You can definitely hear the difference in the way they pronounce vowels and stuff. So I think they did different Animalese for different languages.

@hexagonal69

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, in New Horizons the English version is actually so articulate that you can make out actual words.

@sudoughku

Жыл бұрын

yeah, if you slow down a clip of an animal crossing character speaking, you’ll kind of be able to understand what they’re saying. i was really surprised when i first did it

@Youhadabadday2021

11 ай бұрын

​@@hexagonal69I can attest to this. I can actually hear Tom Nook saying "Hello Hello!" and Blathers saying "Jolly Good!" when I speak to them.

@Robloxwithstacey

9 ай бұрын

@@hexagonal69I can kind of hear “Happy Birthday” during my birthday

@Milkko3

4 ай бұрын

That dedication is actually insane tho

The villagers' rudeness being meant to encourage kids to talk to their parents more is such a strange avenue of wholesomeness- I kinda love it

@tobysinbad

9 сағат бұрын

I definitely worried about offending villagers when I was younger, and though I’ve never connected the two before (i think I was just raised right mostly) I strive to be a polite and sensitive adult. That said I almost always loved it when they got angry with me. I was only ever guilty about *upsetting* them

I always noticed this because it felt like the animals were saying a sped up version of the sounds the game would make when typing with the in-game keyboard! (Which pronounces the letters you're typing as you type them.) For a very long time I've made it a fun game to listen to what they say as they're saying it and picking out the sounds of the letters. If you know what to listen for, it's *almost* perfectly decipherable most of the time, and often enough some words just sound pretty accurate.

@AbbeyKitty1013

Жыл бұрын

Nobody asked

@Gardiled

Жыл бұрын

same i thought everyone knew this

@h34dd

Жыл бұрын

​@@AbbeyKitty1013 nobody asked for your opinion

@Wiimeiser

Жыл бұрын

The most I've noticed it is in the first game when Tom Nook says "thorny".

@moggingyou

Жыл бұрын

They can all say my name pretty clearly

Can't believe the international releases weren't touched upon. When you write messages in the game, each letter is read out when you type it. So I imagine they use a similar synthesiser for the other language releases?

@ej22_gc86

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure it’s the case Just sequentially voicing each letter

My coworkers get a huge kick out of my Isabelle imitation. I go into long work discussions in Isabelle's language; I keep getting requests to become team leader. 😂 It really helps on those looong overnight 12 hour shifts.

@dacueba-games

8 ай бұрын

Slave labour much?

@EMMATHEPOKEMONFAN2023

6 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha!!!

@Panzerfaust_1939

6 ай бұрын

Nice

This reminds me of Midna's speech from Twilight Princess being created by recording Japanese dialogue and then playing it backwards.

@rtyuik7

Жыл бұрын

actually, Midna has English lines, that were then cut and rearranged...you can find the "original" samples on youtube, where she says things like 'want me to use my power?' (that said, there Could be some Japanese as well, i just know that its not ALL Japanese :-P)

@thecosplaycrafter8017

Жыл бұрын

@@rtyuik7 Interesting. Wouldn't surprise me though.

@BowlOSoup6661

Жыл бұрын

It also reminded me of the Chu's voice from the wind waker, how it's just two japanese guys fighting

I could honestly listen to Thomas’s voice all day, it’s so soothing.

@JeffersonTheGenius

Жыл бұрын

Man Voices

@Tappytw

Жыл бұрын

man voice thomas voice

@kyesmith-mackintosh

Жыл бұрын

ye

@SoapheadPog

Жыл бұрын

allsl

@thatrandominternetgeek

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.. 😌

The English version of Animalese being just them spelling the words is incorrect. If you slow down Animalese you'll find in the newer games they are reading the English words in a Japanese accent, and in the Gamecube it's a English speech synth that pronounce the whole word, but isn't consistent with how words are actually pronounced in English. "See" might be "say", for instance.

@ThomasGameDocs

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think you're right. Information on how the English synthesis works is very limited, and I think my explanation was not completely correct. Since the rest of the video was (in my opinion) well researched and backed up, but that one English bit was not great, I've trimmed it out the video.

I've been trying to explain to my friends for years how I can hear the words they're saying in the noises but nobody else would believe me

Loved the video, but would have appreciated a mention of Bebebese, since that always interested me

@bitter-bit

Жыл бұрын

Bebebese is just "pop pop pop" though

@Random-oy7vk

Жыл бұрын

Bebebese?

@NigelMelanisticSmith

Жыл бұрын

@@Random-oy7vk it's a format that animals sometimes speak, normally the sounds of characters thinking or system menus. Notably, in Animal Crossing Wild World, you can disable Animalese and make all animals speak Bebebese. That's as much as I know about it, which is why I wanted some more from the video lol.

@lagoozri9568

4 ай бұрын

the phoenix wright dialogue sounds

i thought i was the only one that had noticed how the language worked until now, thanks for making this video and bringing the concept up to light; also really interesting idea since it also gives further context and provides the story as to how the idea behind this language came to be. thanks once more for putting up videos like these

At least in the Spanish version, it still feels generally like the word they're actually saying. Like, vowel-wise. It's pretty cool

@Liggliluff

Жыл бұрын

According to someone else, they have made sure the letter-names are different per language, and since Spanish is more phonetically written, it will therefore sound more correct. Still, a word like "holla" would be "hache-o-ele-ele-a" since they are using letter-names and not letter-sounds. I guess it might sound close enough in fast speech.

@radioactivevolt

Жыл бұрын

@@Liggliluff Actually pretty sure they do pronounce letter sounds, I remember back in New Leaf Isabelle would say "Todo listo, pásala bien" each time you booted up the game and it was so clear that the text-to-speech was saying that, also in New Horizons smug villagers would often say "No-lo-pue-do-cre-er" when you gift them something and, again, it sounded just like how you'd pronounce phonetically

@radioactivevolt

Жыл бұрын

@@Liggliluff Also the fact that spanish is really similar phonetically to japanese, they probably used the same recordings as the japanese version

@SwissestCheese

Жыл бұрын

To me it sounds like it in English

@alexaecho4273

Жыл бұрын

@@Liggliluff what’s a holla? Lmaoo cus thats definitely not a Spanish word. You’re either saying Joya or OLLA.

I think it's the same in English speaking countries as well. The animalese is just what we hear when typing a message but sped up. And with the tone changed to match the speaker.

The legend is back at it again

@ceru1ean_f1n1ty

Жыл бұрын

Bucket

@ZuskV1

Жыл бұрын

@@ceru1ean_f1n1ty bucket

@thefunkiestswag

Жыл бұрын

bucket

@thatrandominternetgeek

Жыл бұрын

Bucket?

@ZuskV1

Жыл бұрын

@@thatrandominternetgeek 🪣?

6:10 This is a commonly spread myth that merely takes slowing down the English version's Animalese to disprove. Animalese in English actually works similarly to existing English TTS, it's just muffled, scrambled and highly sped up. Some have likened it to Japanese TTS trying to say English words phonetically. Here's a good example: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qId8vJKqZcXXqqw.html If it was just saying the letters one by one, it'd be a lot more noticeable. Take the way he says "get" here for example. You can't make "gee ea tea" sound like that no matter how much you speed it up.

It reminded me of the voice function of older computers from like the late 90s early 2000s. And of those old animals that you could have on your desktop that used basically the same method to speak, having either a real or computerized voice and speeding it up a lot. I have a vivid memory of taking one of those voice clips, slowing it down to normal and just hearing a random voice saying “Yellow yellow yellow”

Yo. It's good to see you uploading a video! Your videos are amazing! Glad that you're back! Keep up the great work!

This is such a great video! When I was researching Animal Crossing development I read the same interview with Taro Bando about insect collecting, isn’t it so funny and charming? Thanks for the great video as always!

Thank you for the video! I'd love to see a continuation where you discuss how they changed the voice synthesizer to sound more like English for the players in English-speaking regions!

The return we needed, and we got.

@UltimateRareBingler

Жыл бұрын

he literally uploaded 6 days ago

@Animations-yr6nr

Жыл бұрын

It was six days ago

@AlanTGP1

Жыл бұрын

There isn't a more overused comment than this one...

@Animations-yr6nr

Жыл бұрын

@@AlanTGP1 lol

(6:20) Notice the Japanese accent on those letters, how it's not "ell" but more like "eru". So it's more like "etch-ee-eru-eru-oh". They do have sounds for the extended Latin alphabet as well, like Ñ, Ń, Æ and so on, so they can even read words with these. But that makes me curious if the characters still say "etch" for H and "ee" for E in for example German, because the German names for these letters are different. If someone plays the game in non-English and non-Japanese, and presses a Latin letter, as the sound is made, is it still the English name? Probably easiest with letters like H and W.

@jule4639

Жыл бұрын

I play the games in German and the letters are changed to sound like the German names for them (numbers too!). This is also why the way the characters speak sound different depending on the language.

@Liggliluff

Жыл бұрын

@@jule4639 That's really neat! They really put that extra effort into it. But do they still have Japanese accents to it? I think "3" might be the easiest to tell, it's unique for German so not reused from English, and the question is if it sounds more like (using Japanese) "drai" or "durai", or "8" might also be interesting for that "ch" sound.

@jule4639

Жыл бұрын

@@Liggliluff It does sound like there's still an accent, especially for 3. Some letters also tend to sound a bit weird, especially y (since it is pronounced ypsilon so... not an easy sound to make) and ä/ö/ü but you can definitely make out the letters!

These videos are always so fascinating! No matter how much I know there always seems to be something new to learn about, which is very cool 😎

hoping the weekly uploads will come back 👌 glad your back!

I’ve been binge watching videos about animal crossing and playing acnh so much today.. then you upload this..wow

@ThomasGameDocs

Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoyed it!!

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

I should really play this series someday but on the other hand it seems like one of those black hole games. Those games where you don't really do much of anything but in spite of that it keeps pulling you back in cause if you drop it for a while and then come back everyone wonders where you went. So you feel a psychological need to return every day and say hello to everyone.

@ThomasGameDocs

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I played Animal Crossing literally every day for 3 or 4 months after it came out, and I had a lot of fun during that time! But I don't think I'd want to get back into it, at least not to that extent, right now. Not until the next game comes out at least, haha!

@Loafyloop

Жыл бұрын

Im once again obsessed with animal crossing new horizons 😂 helpp

btw thomas, if it's financially comfortable for you, you don't have to upload every week! tbh a video from you every 10 days or even 2 weeks would be fine, they're amazing!

The subtitles are very much appreciated, thank you!

Cool vid Thomas!!

Is it just me or is this game catching up steam again?

Thank you to the creators of animal crossing! I love everything about these games, the music, the characters, the whole environment it just makes you happy. My kids got me a pair of leaf earrings last year from the game for mothers day and they're my favorite pair of earrings lol

I started getting back into animal crossing and now Thomas game docs uploads an animal crossing video lmaooo

I love your channel!

I realised this back then only through the keyboard. As I was typing the letters I noticed that the sounds somewhat sounded like the letter I was pressing and in isolation I could really hear the letters. Then I paid attention to the conversations and I noticed that indeed the letters are spoken. Allthough one by one which doesn't make sense for english (in my case german) but it created that distinct sound

I noticed animalese in new leaf quite quickly. It is an effect you notice sometimes, and start to understand. It fits the theme of communication because after a while, you kinda understand the tone, or "what is happening", mirroring experiences of those who learned english from their playstation or start to understand spoken japanese from exposure alone.

At least in New Horizons and possibly other games, they actually do say the words in English using some rudimentary text to speech. This should’ve been included since it’s obvious.

@leaflenster7340

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this has been the case since the first game. I've heard actual words here and there even back then, so that's how they've always done it and still do (which since this video is about the original, it would make sense to mention it here, but I guess Thomas wanted to just cover the JP version?).

@Liggliluff

Жыл бұрын

I do find it weird that they didn't consider having two sounds for each letter; the letter name (when typing on the keyboard) and the letter sound when they speak (ignoring double-letters). So hello would use the sounds (using IPA): /h/, /ɛ/, /l/, /oʊ/ getting the word /hɛloʊ/, which is accurate. But a word like "hour" would be /hoʊ.ʌr/ (how-ur). Of course, they could add some clusters and exceptions, like "sh" for /ʃ/ (sh) and "su" for /ʃʌ/ (shu). They could still speak fast, but they would speak a little slower since they're no longer saying "haichellellow" but just "hellow".

@Chubby_Bub

Жыл бұрын

The Animalese in English is still synthesized using Japanese syllables. They take the English strings and convert them to kana. It is not known for certain exactly the way in which this is done, but the following sentence was a possible example given to me by a dataminer. (If you know Japanese kana, note how this is a lot closer to the English pronunciation of the whole sentence than the usual Japanese approximations of foreign words, allowing them to blend together, as well as having sounds that don't normally exist in Japanese.) > Please note that I can only move players who currently own a house on this island. becomes > ぷりーずのうとぅざらいかのうんりーむーぶ ぷれいあーずふーかーあんとぅりーおうなはうすあんずぃさいらんどぅ。 Romanized this is literally: > _purīzu nōtu zarai kanounrī mūbu pureiāzu fū kāanturī ouna hausu an zisairandu_ As I said this is different than how those English words would be read in Japanese which would be something like > プリーズ・ノート・ザット・アイ・カン・オンリー・ムーブ・プレーヤーズ・フー・カーレントリー・オーン・ア・ハウス・オン・ジス・アイランド or > _purīzu nōto zatto ai kan onrī mūbu purēyāzu fū kārentorī ōn a hausu on jisu airando_

@GiancarloThomazSenoni

Жыл бұрын

@@leaflenster7340 animalise using some english words is more prononced in Animal Crossing New Horizons, the Villagers and NPC actually feel they are speaking a true launguage to you, with change in tone depeding on the villager personality( like a more high picthed voice for peppy vilagers and a low baritone tone for cranky villagers), even specials NPC like Broosters and Tom Nook has specials tone in his voice.

Unpopular opinion: The older animal crossing games had more heart and mind put to it than new horizons

This video was really cool! I always thought that they said each letter!

Arcade Bunny from the Nintendo Badge Arcade has a cute sort of Animalese speech. I tried the Japanese version recently, and while it's not 1:1 with the text, the sounds he makes do somewhat match his speech quirks, like adding っす！ ("ssu!") to the end of most sentences. Ironically when you collect some huge number of badges (I think it was 5000?), you get to select a question to ask him about the game. Well I chose to ask how his voice was made, but he just responded with "Oh, you don't want to know that..."

Huh never knew that the sound was actually based off what they were currently saying and not just random

Im guessing the VAs were made to pronounce and record each letter of the alphabet and for each letter of a sentence each pronounced letters from the record are used Just guessing before the video

2:41 “But with the Japanese sound Ohio…”

@mgrvr

Жыл бұрын

*radio plays down in ohio*

@AnimsOfTheAnims

Жыл бұрын

@@mgrvr*DOWN IN OHIO SWAG LIKE OHIO*

@morning_marie

Жыл бұрын

Ohaiyou おはよう

That was really helpful 😁

i knew it! because i realized that whenever they finish a sentence/word, it’s always sounds like they are saying the words by letters. like “hello” they would say it as “h e l l o” but sped up

Tbh this is probably one of favorite things about these games as well, and yeah sometimes great ideas are made by complete accident because I've done that myself with my art

I've heard that the rudeness of the animal characters was something introduced in the English translation, and that it wasn't like that in the original Japanese version. This aspect has been toned down over later games, and the English translation has a more similar tone to the Japanese game.

@fletchqc9900

Жыл бұрын

I really want the rudeness back

@Liggliluff

Жыл бұрын

@@fletchqc9900 But the tricky part is that some wants a version matching the Japanese-version as closely as possible, and then there are some wanting it changed. It's hard to satisfy both.

@fletchqc9900

Жыл бұрын

@@Liggliluff it isn't hard to satisfy both, actually. Normal, lazy and jock villagers are meant to be very nice to the player, just like the japanese version. Peppy is a weird case because they're neither nice nor mean, just sort of airheaded. And snooty and cranky villagers are supposed to be the meanest of the bunch. In the older games, jock and normal villagers especially were very nice and almost never mean to the player.

@AdrianBigyes

9 ай бұрын

I want the Rude language dlc please. XD

The animaleese was actually pretty easy to understand in the gamecube version! The newer versions, not so much!

what I always thought was that when the animals talk, it’s just them spelling out the word really fast and you can hear that if you go to the chat thing

The music in the background is so nostalgic. I miss when ACNH was still new lol

Fantastic video over all. Gotta say, the lesson in Japanese pronunciation vs. mispronouncing the Japanese creators’ names (I.e. TAY-RO BAND-O versus TAH-RO BAHN-DOH) had me laughing a little

7:09 if you put the playbackspeed at 0,25 you can hear the english letters/sounds they are saying

I've always known it was sped-up text because in New Leaf when posting on the message, if type a letter with the 3ds stylus, then it will read back the letter in Animalese. I made the connection eventually that it some of it sounded similar to sped-up English letters but sounded a little different (ex. type "e" and it would read back as "eh"). Didn't know it was actually based on Japanse tho.

i’ve always thought that it sounded like they were saying what the subtitles (or.. text bubble.. whatever it’s called-) said, but i just told myself i’ve been isolated too long because of my illness and must be going crazy lol. good to know i wasn’t, after all.. it’s pretty cool how it was all made from an accident. the animalese will never be forgotten now.

This is something I was always wondering

He's back

I dare you try to say “This is cool” by letter to letter in 300% of normal speed or even 1000% or dare I say, Animalese!

that idea of "we dont even need to understand what they are saying!" kinda fell off because in most recent ac games like acnh, you can almost perfectly tell what the animals are saying, at least in english example: in happy home paradise dlc for acnh, when Niko says "Yo!" you can tell that hes saying "yo" they pretty much just record words, and speed them up to make the text, if you get any video of an acnh villager/special character speaking, and slow it down, you can perfectly understand what they are saying

As a creative I've found the most innovative, coolest ideas are always thought of at a dilemma, when something is stopping you from using your original idea

How fascinating! Also I wish New Horizons villagers would have a bit of sass from the Gamecube version 😅

I think for the other languages they just read out every character So "hello" is like "H E L L O" very quickly and that way it kinda sounds like English oder German but you cannot really understand it It's the same vibe

I believe there speed up voices of them talking. That s what, I heard when I was playing. It still sounds like that when evert I hear it

How fortuitous. I was just about to embark once again on my random Animal Crossing Song Covers journey again.

FYI, Taro Bando is also one of the composers for F-Zero X. What a legend!

In New Horizons they aren't just reading the letters, but the whole English word though right? I'm sure I can occasionally make out some of the words.

@toonpik7

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and i’m pretty sure this is the case in New Leaf. It’s pretty much just tts, definitely NOT just saying the letters in order.

@HeruruMeruru

Жыл бұрын

That's the case in the Gamecube version as well.

@darrenmacqueen9884

Жыл бұрын

@Heruru Meruru The original GCN version and New Horizons are the only ones I've played. It's been way too long since I played the original though, I can't remember exactly how they sounded.

@FamiliarlyFrigid

Жыл бұрын

From what I remember, they pronounce the sound every letter they're saying makes (instead of saying each letter's name). It's usually easier to make out short words.

The idea was first introduced in Banjo and Kazooie though, it was a different kind of doubutsugo. There could even be prior uses of this of the snes era...

would you make a video on why wario doesnt sound like he used to, theres been alot of changes like his voice going deeper and deeper and him even being german once

I just picked up animal crossing new horizons again and this video releases. What a coincidence

The original AC was the only game I could get my mom to play. She got into it pretty hard, especially for an older non gamer.

I thought that all the letters were being played really fast, never considered the fact Nintendo is a Japanese company

I already figured this out listen closely to the sounds and you can sort of understand some of what there saying I realized it while talking to blathers

Me starting to get into animal crossing and getting a new Island: this is nice Seeing this video: THUS IS GREAT

I’ve thought it meant something or something else. I knew something was up. Never knew there was all of this behind it.

I always thought I heard the villagers speak out my name real quick and in a way, I'm not wrong. My name is Beatriz, but "Bia" is a.short nickname for ir, I can sometimes hear it, especially from blathers hahaha.

Man, that Ace Attorney Music just came out of nowhere and hit me square in the face with a nostalgia hammer.

Finally, something I didn't know.

*TL;DW version:* _sped up synthesized japanese._

I was literally just watching a Thomas Game Docs video

I had always noticed that the characters spoke in some kind of sped-up high-pitched text-to-speech when listen very closely especially when you make them pronounce your own custom words you made for them. Sometimes they kinda pronounce each letter individually very quickly as they es-pee-ee-a-kay (s p e a k)

Another example of how constraints and challenges force us to push the envelope forward sometimes

I actually didn't realize they were saying human language(in my case it was Korean) when I was child. I only noticed it when I started playing the Switch version.

By what i knew, it was just the sounds of letters jumbled together i could tell when i typed in animal crossing

The thing is... english is not a phonetic language... like Japanese and/or spanish... Maybe in spanish is a little slower, but I can understand the animals.

I've only played New Horizons but I think it's neat that short phrases and single words are understandable

A version of this is also used in wii games like wii fit

I remember I felt like a genius when I figured this out playing Wild World

It always sounded to me like it was the actual word being said, or at least letter sounds very representative of the words, just sped and pitched up like 500%

since japanese letters are just called by what sound the make, in the english version of animal crossing the characters just spell the word out loud. you can hear it a little bit at the end of a sentence

Oh my ADHD brain kicks in and I read at the pace of the text bubbles and I thought they just recorded people talking and sped it up. I always understood it

@ezrothkusosroy

Жыл бұрын

That's what I thought too!

Nice to see this technique in Splatoon actually!

i know that in animal crossing new horizons they just talk in speed up cause my name in animal crossing is vee and when they say my name its “ve” just really fast

I dunno but it sounds like they did some localization for this as well. I played most of these games in my native language and there have been cases when you could make out some of the words they were saying. In particular when its only a single word said like "WHAT!?" for example, that came up a lot.

I noticed it was a speed up of someone saying each letter

I wonder what they did for the voices in Okami... It sounds similar, to _my_ ear anyway.

The animalese is just the native language of the players, sped up really fast. The source is most likely an in-house voice synthesizer similar to the vocaloid voice banks. nintendo probably has one that was made for them to use.

You could make a video about alien's easter egg in animal crossing, it would be cool.

Yo My Name Is Thomas! 😁😁👍👍

I thought it was a group of sounds mixed toghether

I KNEW THEY WERE SAYING THE LETTERS REALLY FAST! I KNEW IT!

It's improved since