Gaming Mystery: How are Nintendo's digitized voices created?

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Mikurotoro92
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14 Aug 2025, 10:54 pm

What I mean is like the digitized garbled voices in Splatoon, Donkey Kong Bananza and most recently the alien sounds in the Nintendo Switch Online Playtest Program, how did Nintendo achieve those voices?

There are 3 possibilities:

Text-to-speech software
Voice manipulation software
Vocaloid software (Hatsune Miku)

We may never know the answer because Nintendo might be keeping it a secret so other developers don't steal their ideas but what do you guys think?

Thanks in advance!! !



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16 Aug 2025, 2:13 pm

Nintendo released a video on their app "Nintendo Today!" about Splatoon 3 and showed the singers/voice actors recording the song "Clickbait" by the fictional band C-side

When the singers were singing I believe their voices got converted into the garbled mess we know as the Inkling language!! !

Converted by a voice modulator or voice manipulator that can change sounds



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21 Aug 2025, 12:48 am

Nintendo recently posted another video on the Nintendo Today app about Splatoon 2 and it showed a DAW being used

Not sure if the DAW is commercial or proprietary but I believe that answers my question about how the voices are created!! !