You get a small bit of that when talking to Thane. If he calls femshep Siha she doesn't understand, and thinks her translator has messed up.

@@Terror_Official That too. I always imagined that the Turians would sound like birds, Asari would sound like fish, and the Salarians would sound like chittering insects. Glad to know at the very least the bird one was sort of correct.

I wonder how these translators work... Are you always with headphones on ? Or are they implanted or something

@@bioticgod it’s probably in the omni tools

I don't know why, but that's kinda what I had imagined the Asari sounding like. Almost like you are hearing a kind of echo in the voice because even though they are speaking and they are moving air the way humans talk, but you hear it directly in your mind and not through sound hence the kinda bouncy echo it has.

That would've been hilarious. Maybe we should ask Bioware to include that in the next Mass Effect? 😆

This needs to happen

Best part i feel is that if u also brought ur human squadmates they just speak different languages than u (james would be spanish and kaiden is like Quebec french, etc) would add some extra funny stuff

@@Memelord-md5hs And Miranda speaks the unintelligible language that is Australian.

that should've been mandatory in like one or two of the three games

@@MrHulthen Maybe they also planned for Turians to turn on the galaxy at some point? There's quite a lot of dialogue options in ME1 that allows you to demonise them after all, and a lot of Turians in ME1 are either jerks or plain evil. It's hard to say really. It's interesting to think about though, seeing how their real voices sound like the Vorcha, a Terminus species.

Don't "aaah" me, you sound like a vorcha.

@@cristiancojocaru9821 fun fact the voice actor for male Shepherd also voices the vorcha.

Humans probably sound like Banjo Kazooie characters, all wub wub wa wubba wub or something to the alien races.

@@Zushi_Tsunami Not only the vorcha but also the hannar "because it is a big stupid jellyfish".

🤣

yeah I'd think it would be more screechy

Me too, especially since their voices sound like they're being produced by a syrinx. I would have thought that they'd sound like parrot mimicry.

For some reason I’d imagined turian voices would of been electronic like lmao

Qapla'! (Burps and passes out)

The best comparison yet! 😂

I figured the asari would still have English as their base since they are still a psychic species.

More like: Turian - A Halo Jackal. Volus - A deep Japanese anime voice.

both Mass Effect and The Sims are from EA, really Asari one sounds like simlish

Garrus: "I do not fear you, Mother."

+20

"Oh yeah Garrus! Give me to me!" "AARRAAAGHH-GUUGGGAAGHH CHACCKLLAACKAA!!"

Exactly, this screeching bird is the true love of my life

ME players romancing Garrus: Give us a rose our beloved raptor boi!🥰🥰❤️❤️ Garrus: (speaks his dialect) ME players: 😮!………… Other players: Oh, we’re so sorry… ME players: …….GIVE US A BOUQUET OUR BELOVED RAPTOR BOI!!!!! 😍🤤😍🤤😍💕💕💕💕💕

LMFAO REALL

haha yep

Basically Mark Meer lol

@@Draconiangem Mark Meer under disguise?

Captain Gavorn might get insulted over this fact

Makes you wonder what Vorcha really sound like 😂

That would be a horrible way to go...

Your comment killed me XD

I'm done 🤣🤣🤣🤣💀☠

You know, I actually imagine they recorded these "native language" sounds to base their mouth movements on. They couldn't pull off very convincing English mouth movement with those alien faces and technology of the time so they made a rough gibberish sound to vaguely match in their animation as an excuse. So basically, take the voices with a grain of salt.

Mordin sounds like the Jawas from KoTOR.

Na dosa imaraki. Anoranomaki droomka myin sobin sasha.

I definitely got star wars kotor vibes. The asari sounded like the twileks 🤣

Mucha shaka paka...

@@lovesyoohoo loool

Glad i could help 🤣

Lol 😂

Kinky

Same!!

Still best boyfriend, even if he sounds like a screeching bird.

And that same franchise is making a comeback soon. I mean, I guess they technically already did with the Legendary Edition.

Im hoping you can play a new race in the game like a newbie race starting spacefaring

That would've been so cool! Maybe not exactly like the way they sound here though.

It wouldn't make sense from a story point of view as humans are new to the galaxy and don't understand the other races languages and vice versa.

@@TheGingiGamer it's been about 30 years. I think it's possible.

@@rustybushel6220 Maybe

The Asari even sound kinda like the Twi'lek.

I think it fits perfectly, considering they come from a planet with much denser atmosphere and gravity. Forgot the name, but there is some heavy gas which acts the opposite of helium when inhaled and gives you such a deep voice.

I like how they did the lines for the biotic god, the true star of mass effect.

Well their suits do remind me of a stereotypical neckbeard when they speak, so now I'm just imagining a Volus is just holding a body pillow under the suit

@@frederiksdHexofluoride. It's a lot of fun

sounds like Simlish

Elcor actuallly communicate through pheromones and subtle movements to one another, hence why they declare their "mood" before saying what they wanna say, like "Cautiously, how do you know I like spicy chicken wings?" I've not seen anything to suggest they communicate through soundwaves of sort (although I may be mistaken on such)

Elcor sounds like farts.

so tali is the only alien squadmate who speaks fluent English, another reason for me to love her 😍

Not entirely accurate. Some individuals learn SOME languages of their close friends or the cultures they are interested in. There are 6000 human languages and a similar number for each species. Hanar were taught language by the Protheans, so they are capable of learning and understanding languages, but not physically able to speak them without a synthesised voice provided by the translator (since they don't have mouths). Elcor translators are programmed to react to pheromones to inform the listener of their emotions. In other words, most characters are speaking in their native tongue, which gets translated back and forth in conversation. Hanar communicate with eachother via bioluminescence. However to communicate with other species they learn a language, and anything they hear gets autotranslated into that language. There is a theory that Mordin is actually speaking Shepard's language, as most of his battle dialogue refers to English-specific things, and his speech pattern is broken.

This would make little sense tough. It can only work if these races could naturally make the same sounds like other races. Like parrots with humans. In reality we would need machine translators, otherwise we couldn't learn to speak alien language any more than we could naturally talk to whales, same for them.

The first time humans encountered TUrians was the first contact war, so yeah

@@DAETRICH no it wasn’t … it was during the American Civil War of 1861 🤦🏽‍♂️

I mean what would you expect an alien to sound like? they would sound weird

@@porsche911sbs yes, thank you Captain Copernicus, I know they would sound weird, what I meant was they’d sound scary as hell.

I think they were more shock that they were massacred by them rather than hearing them speak

Also considering that his song rhymes means it's probably in the English language as another language wouldn't rhyme properly

@@Mrnumber ah yes, “I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A SCIENTIST SALARIAN IVE STUDIED SPECIES TURIAN, ASARI AND BATARIAN” But for real, it’s a cool little thing to think of

Hahaha yes

I like to think that they sound and act a little like ME's version of the Klingons from Star Trek, Salarian's would be the Vulcans of the series, Turians, the Romulans and the Asari would be let's say the Trill or something

@@ianmurphy9955 Salarians would the Romulans and the Turians more like The Cardassians. Asari are a mix of Bethazoids with Vulcans (with all the mind melding thing, not so much the supression of emotions).

Ahhhh thanks man! How could I forget Cardassia, yeah no you're right there

It's my theory they did recorded those to base their facial animations on. Something to make consistent, if gibberish, mouth motion in conversations. Imagine being the poor animator trying to make Garrus look like he's speaking English convincingly.

Think it’s like humans are still the main race in Star Wars while humans are the backrole in Mass Effect They would have to invest a lot more for what people will probably see as annoying

-*AAK AAK RAAAK*

Omg yes xD

*"Koh'k naskaraat'ah."*

Caw caw

that would be amazing

The Green Lantern cartoon did an episode like that when Hal, Kilowog, and Razor lost their rings! 💚🏮

I'd love it if shepard starts talking French or something when that happens.

I like to headcanon that there's a sort of galactic common language, most likely based off of asari and salarian mouth movements. That would explain the turians trying to mimic it but with difficulty and they would likely still need translator help or a modified version of the language. Since humans have a similar anatomy to asari, they would probably be able to speak it fairly well, however only being part of the galactic community for ~30 years I wonder how many humans would be fluent. There's still a lot of things I'd have to work out for this headcanon to work but I feel it better allows for the speech variation we see between species in the game

Well, Javik isn't speaking prothean at all except for right before Shepard touches him. After that, he's talking in english at least with us, as he does point this out when Shepard asks.

Suspension of disbelief. I just pretend that they are mouthing their own language and Shepard just heard it in English.

I did expect the Turians to have that lower, double voice sound they do speaking with the translator.

@@kratkartan1486 Plus the Protheans are speaking english in the flashback as well. Not the first time non-human species are speaking english to each other without a human there.

Yeah they are audible in Flux :D

Next play through I'm going to have to pay more attention.

@@MrHulthen and in Coras den when talking to septimus

It's in Flux, in the stairs

I thought they all made sense, although I'd think the Turians would sound even more alien, screechy/chirpy like a bird. Krogan I'd expect to be low growls like an alligator.

Grunt sounds like Jabba the Hutt 😂😅

Asari and salarians kinda made sense too, same for the Volus.

Mark Meer having fun going wild and just making up alien voices is the most pure thing I have heard today.

I think more than that, it was to base face animation off of. Something other than human to justify random mouth flapping rather than actual English mouthing. Especially for the Turians. I can only Imagine trying to make that look convincing in 2008.

@carbongo I've always wondered why they didn't translate that though. Or maybe those are the names of the varren he releases?

Quarians are said to be very similar to humans, so their voices would probably sound pretty close to ours.

She sounds like Cookie Monster

​@@82dorrin Yeah, a quarian in one of the novels managed to speak perfect English unaided with the ease of any native speaker, so they'd probably sound near-identical to us.

AMEN!

@@baboongamingmgrr nice

With turians in particular, their mouths wouldn't be able to form the same kind of speech that humans do. They probably _couldn't_ speak human languages any more than we could speak an alien language that required sub-vocalizations or multiple tongues.

Turians at least would probably talk like Vorcha. I doubt Hanar can even actually speak, and really every race with lips could actually probably speak english if not a bit accented, like the quarians. Knowing Tali, she probably actually took the time to learn english. I mean, she did download a lot of things that help her understand our cultures, with language being among them.

@@82dorrin yeah that's what I was thinking too, kinda wish they had an option to enable/disable the alien voices

@@kratkartan1486 yeah, Quarians are probably the closest race to humans in Mass Effect... I’d think they’d be able to speak English and other human languages. Well... it’s debatable if Asari would be closest to humans... we dunno.

@@kratkartan1486 Hanars don't talk! They use Empathy or Telepathy to communicate your mind! Brain or whatever crap?😂

Yes

Turian voices are just so wet for a species that is literally incapable of sealing their mouths

Feel like that sounds like the Vorcha and not the Turian Most of the other languages fits how they sound, like they are actually saying the words in the same voice

The Asari voice also makes sense in the same way. The Turian voice sounds like the Jackals from the Halo franchise, which is shocking because all Turian voices in English are “deep” and “smooth” sounding.

This killed me 🤣😂. Thank you!

Bioware probably had samples from when they made KOTOR, so it could actually be Geonosian. I'm leaning more towards a fan did this, though.

yes!! i kept imagining different Star Wars Aliens for each one... I Especially felt like the Asari sounded like Twi'leks ...

Haha yep

Sing songy in a way :D

@@MrHulthen Makes me wonder what Mordin actually sounds like singing his version of Modern Major General...

@@Terror_Official Chances are he learned English and sung it exactly as shown.

Shepard is going at it in sexy times with Garrus. Suddently the translator stops working. 1:24 XDDDDDD

why do you think the turians were called birds? a number of birds make screeches like that.

@@toomanyaccounts and to me Turians resemble birds in a way. The humans called them “the birds” in The First Contact War.

Yw 😄

Nope, it's literally ripped out of the ps3 versions audio :)

thank god for english amirite :D

Wait? She says that? ._.

hahahah really? : D

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exactly like Simlish, right xD

that is true tho

You actually get to hear the prothean language when recruiting Javik. When he wakes, he's speaking prothean (even though Shepard can understand him, the game makes it a point to let us hear it since the others can't) up until Shepard touches him. When he next speaks, he's speaking English and Shepard asks about that.

@@kratkartan1486 Oh, wow, I'll need to pay closer attention, I don't remember that. Thank you!

😂

I would so date an Asari if they were real 😍

LMAO

😂

No one cares. That's what they sound like.