Dumb Question about voices
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2005 October 18, 20:43:03
Hmmm... I didn't see
"Nargfood"
when an adult female sim answers the phone
means "You again? Quit calling me, Marsha!"
I didnt see martha kay lene used by Elder females either- some sort of frustration phrase.I hear the nannies use it the most or ochi Kwa zeeo used by nannies when they greet the family or toddlers.Flateemee blah blah blah wasnt there either (used by adult males at the table during meal times) MokaTeal . used by nannies. none of those were listed
ZephyrZodiac:
Wish Maxis would include the option "Blow whistle down phone" when Marsha calls!
baratron:
I'm totally failing to see a pattern, too - and I'm passably familiar with hexadecimal numbers. My male Adult sims have voices in the range 0x18C9 to 0xF564 - and my female sims similarly. My Young Adult males generally have higher numbered voices, from 0x9423 to 0xC2F1, but that could be coincidence as I have fewer of them to look at. Without writing down every number (I'm not THAT sad), I can't be sure whether the numbers are even exclusive.
A theory I have is that the number corresponds to the pitch of the voice within a certain range, and the range is set in different places for the different ages and genders. So a male Adult sim and a female Child sim could both have Voice Type 0xC106 (say), but for the male Adult the pitch would be at position C106 on the Male Adult scale, whereas the female Child would have pitch at position C106 on the Female Child scale. Does that make sense to anyone else?(C106 is just a number, we could call it 49414 if you prefer). And then the idea is that between these pitch changes and the different things that different personality type & age sims say, our brains fill in the rest of the detail so the sims' voices sound different - in the same way that with TS1, we used to see facial expressions change even though they didn't.
My overly low-pitched male had Voice Type 0x5229. I swapped it for 0xC2F1, which is the voice my Young Adult Ripp Grunt has - fairly high pitched for a man but not actively girly - and it didn't come out the same as Ripp. But it's stil appropriate for the real-life person the sim is based on, so it'll have to do. 'Tis weird.
ZephyrZodiac:
But they still haven't done anything about the kid who calls on the phone sounding exactly the same as the adults!
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 October 24, 01:18:46
But they still haven't done anything about the kid who calls on the phone sounding exactly the same as the adults!
what I hate is the Nannies voices they are so whiny
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