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A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Looks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?

IIRC it's a popular TTS character called ずんだもん.

Doesn't really sound like ずんだもん tbh. Can't recall which voice it is however.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#33

Looks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?

Japan likes their cutesy little-girl voices.

that's just how their women sound to us. cutesy anime girls are voiced by aunties over 30.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC it's a popular TTS character called ずんだもん.

So.. 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 g…

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Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Japan likes their cutesy little-girl voices.

that's just how their women sound to us. cutesy anime girls are voiced by aunties over 30.

So are cartoon boys in the west.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#37
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC it's a popular TTS character called ずんだもん.

So.. 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 g…

I 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.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC it's a popular TTS character called ずんだもん.

So.. 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 g…

Copy-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.
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