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Why Animal Crossing characters sound like gibberish

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Instead of paying voice actors to record hundreds of hours of dialogue, the developers just recorded individual syllables and told a computer to mash them together at blinding speeds. The result is 'Animalese', a high-pitched gibberish that somehow sounds incredibly cute rather than like a demonic dial-up modem.

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