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Looks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?
by Keyframe 3mo ago
Looks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?
- mister_mort 3mo agoI think it's just one of the standard JP voice synthesisers available. I know I've heard almost exactly the same one on other Youtube videos using text-to-speech for Japanese.
- AdmiralAsshat 3mo agoJapan likes their cutesy little-girl voices.
- Keyframe 3mo agoHow infantile then
- altairprime 3mo agoComparing our culture to others, women in the U.S. are raised to do much the same. Ask anyone woman constantly misgendered for not having a high-pitched woman’s speaking tone (e.g. pacific islanders) and they’ll confirm. Best not throw stones from glass houses.
- Keyframe 3mo agoI don't know, I don't live or am from US.
- altairprime 3mo agoWell, rephrased then in more literal speak: being less dismissively-judgmental and more observational will go a long way in this community.
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- Keyframe 3mo agoSure, I've been here for almost 20 years. It doesn't change a fact it sounds stupid. I asked two colleagues from Japan and they both agreed this probably wasn't done by a japanese person.
- vlian2088 3mo agothat's just how their women sound to us. cutesy anime girls are voiced by aunties over 30.
- kridsdale1 3mo agoSo are cartoon boys in the west.
- redwall_hp 3mo agoAs an addendum: Japanese isn't as all-in on pitch having semantics as Chinese, but pitch is very important. Words have "pitch accent" rather than "stress" the way English has, and overall pitch is strongly politeness-coded. Speaking higher is politer, and noticeably dropping your pitch is threatening. You probably would pitch-up when speaking to your boss, and people working in shops or restaurants nearly sing welcome/thank you for coming type things.
- kanbankaren 3mo agoHow would you pitch-up? Does the entire Japanese population learn these things while growing up?
- smilespray 3mo agoI think it's called learning to speak.
- kanbankaren 3mo agoDon't be smartass. My question was how to change pitch? Most people can't change their pitch unless they have been trained. I can't speak with the pitch of child or woman. Neither are most people.
- smilespray 3mo agoIt's all relative. Nobody expects a grown man post-voice change to speak with the pitch of a child.
- 3371 3mo agoIIRC it's a popular TTS character called ずんだもん.
- jameshart 3mo agoSo.. I know many people can read hiragana, but it is a very annoying habit of people who know a bit of Japanese to post un-transliterated Japanese text on an English language forum. For someone who doesn’t know Japanese your post reads ‘IIRC it’s a popular TTS character called ??NOT?FOR??YOU??’ - it communicates no information. Writing ‘a popular TTS character called ずんだもん (zundamon)’ takes you very little time and gives readers a little more to work with, and which they can use to Google English language resources on the subject if they are interested.
- kridsdale1 3mo ago[flagged]
- 3371 3mo agoI did but I removed the English part, not because I assume people can read hiragana, but because I assume people will need to search it up anyway.
- narreme 3mo agofwiw i recognize "zundamon" (and many other romanized japanese names/terms) without needing to look them up, but can not read the japanese
- jameshart 3mo agoFor me all the search results for https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%81%9A%E3%82%93%E3%81%A0%E3%82%82%E3%82%93 https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%81%9A%E3%82%93%E3%81%A0%... are in Japanese. https://www.google.com/search?q=zundamon https://www.google.com/search?q=zundamon produces English language resources.
- Zababa 3mo agoCopy-pasting "ずんだもん" into Google gives you everything you want with the sidebar info, copy pasting "zundamon" into Google gives the same Wikipedia link on the sidebar. "Popular TTS character called" is enough to imply that what follows is the name, that you can then search.
- cynicalsecurity 3mo agoThat is an anime voice.
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