Dumb Question about voices

[ZephyrZodiac]

I have a sim who's recently graduated, and I expected him to have a particular kind of voice (he's a very outgoing and playful Leo) which I usually associate with leos.  However, he's got this much deeper voice which I tend to associate more with Taurus.  Is there any way to safely change a sim's adult voice?

[U_Dog_U]

If there's another sim with the voice you want, you can switch their voice types with SimPe.

[ZephyrZodiac]

I can't just give them a new voice then?  If I know what the one I want is called?

[Brynne]

I've done this a few times, myself. Copying and pasting the voice-type of a sim with the voice I want in simpe has worked so far for me. I don't really understand how the voice-types work, as each sim seems to have his own unique voice-type, so I hope I'm not doing any harm with two sims having the same voice-type. I never thought about "switching" them. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, Leos have, as far as I know, a different voice type than most other sims, but for some reason this one hasn't got it.  He says Stuvay! a lot, and Stosso!, but I want him to say (forgive the spelling here) Abaladabijay!

So I need to find the reference number of the voice I actually want, and copy that over the existing one?  If I take it from a sim in a different game, that shouldn't cause any problems, should it?                                         

[Brynne]

Hasn't with my game, so far, knock on wood. Are the voices astrologically-related? I know their nice points (or lack thereof) will give them a few different sounds. The teen male voice with 3 or fewer nice points cracks me up the way they screech "craw frabah!" when they're frustrated! But I have several tauruses in my game (I like their personalities, so I make a lot of tauruses, and they always seem to have taurus children), and one, I know for certain, has the higher male voice. The one that goes "weh WOO!" a lot. That still makes me laugh, too.But his Taurus father (Joe!) and Taurus brother both have the "stosso!" voices. So does his Gemini brother.

I often have to change my female adult voices as well, as the higher squeaky one seems to be dominating my game. It just doesn't fit with some of my characters. One interesting thing, though, is that I had an adult female whose voice I changed to that of another elder female sim, just to see what happened. The result was pretty cool. She still looks like an adult female (no saggy boobs! And I have given her salt and pepper hair and a few wrinkles) and is wearing her "adult" outfit, but has the voice (and age group) of elder. She unfortunately still has the obsteoporosis slouch, when she's standing still. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

Now if you turn an elder into an adult again, they keep the hair and clothes etc., but they gain the voice, body and activity of the adult - and no need to pee every five sim minutes!

[RainbowTigress]

I didn't know there were different voices other than different age groups and genders.  I know Don Lothario says that "Abaladabijay" you were talking about, ZZ.  It gets me when they graduate and their voices are suddenly deeper because when they transition to YA, they keep their teen voice, but when the become adults, they keep pretty much the same face and body but change to an adult voice.  Some of them I'm still not quite used to.  I thought it had to do more with being outgoing and other personality factors.  My outgoing teen males are always going around saying "Givanni!"  The one that gets me though, and it's not every time, but sometimes when a YA female woohoos, they will do this high pitched yoddeling sound toward the end.  It's weird!

[ZephyrZodiac]

I think only teen females yodel!  I suppose they're having an orgasm!!!!

Well, it is mainly outgoing males who have this voice, but mostly that's Leos with high fun and low niceness, i think.  brandi's thrid son also says it (when he's born leo, I have had him born under a different sign, I think, but only once.

I'd actually love it if someone did a complete list of all sims' expressions - and attempted to give them a meaning!   (Annoys me, though, while they're eating lunch, they can say the same thing half a dozen times - not that human males are necessarily any more inventive than - nice meal, darling. Like the mint sauce, darling. Any more gravy in that jug, son?)

Oh, and I think CAS YA's do change their faces quite a lot, I know some of mine are no where near as nice looking as adults as they were as students!

[Ancient Sim]

I'd actually love it if someone did a complete list of all sims' expressions - and attempted to give them a meaning!   

Someone on the BBS did this quite a while ago, I came across it once.  Maybe if you try a search you'd be able to find it.  It was a very long post as quite a few people added more words to it.

[ZephyrZodiac]

If I went to the BBS I'd have a look, but I don't, it's too confusing for me!  Never mind, if all the posters were thirteen, I wouldn't want to know what they came up with!

[ElviraGoth]

I get a kick out of the adult females who sing in the energizer machine.  I have to laugh and watch them every time they do it!

[RainbowTigress]

I get a kick out of the adult females who sing in the energizer machine.  I have to laugh and watch them every time they do it!

I have to wonder what that machine is doing to them. 

[simmiecal]

I get a kick out of the adult females who sing in the energizer machine.  I have to laugh and watch them every time they do it!

I have to wonder what that machine is doing to them. 

There's an interesting mod to the energizer over on MTS2 - you're not left to wonder what the machine is doing to them.

[nectere]

heh. you naughty person you.

Apparently men sing in the machine as well.

[ElviraGoth]

I already imagined that it was a - well - big - er well, you know!  What other kind of machine would make you sing? 

[Brynne]

If I went to the BBS I'd have a look, but I don't, it's too confusing for me!  Never mind, if all the posters were thirteen, I wouldn't want to know what they came up with!

I compiled a list a while back, myself, that I posted on MTS2. This was around the same time the bbs did it. I'll see if I can dig around and find it.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Thanks Brynne, I'm sure your list will make a lot more sense!

As to singing, why didn't they include the bit from TS1 where happy sims sang in the shower?  I used to use that to gauge how happy my sims actually were!

[radiophonic]

Well, Leos have, as far as I know, a different voice type than most other sims, but for some reason this one hasn't got it.  He says Stuvay! a lot, and Stosso!, but I want him to say (forgive the spelling here) Abaladabijay!

Not to mention "bafangool" 

[nectere]

Here is a bbs simlish dictionary
http://tinyurl.com/af7bm

The wikipedia has some info that may (or may not) be useful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simlish

[ZephyrZodiac]

Thanks, I'm so much wiser now that I've seen these links!

[ElviraGoth]

Hmmm... I didn't see
"Nargfood"
when an adult female sim answers the phone
means "You again?  Quit calling me, Marsha!"

[ZephyrZodiac]

In the last neighbourhood I was playing before I loaded my trial of NL today, the stalker was a romance YA called Lothario something (can't remember what) and whenever a sim Called Friends, and he was one of them, he'd call straight back again!

[Brynne]

I couldn't find my list. I still have the hand-written version, so I'll need to type it up again. I think I left it on my old laptop. I posted it at MTS2 and was quite proud of it, because I had several things the other lists did not have, and I got a slew of replies pointing me to the "you know you play the sims too much when..." threads. 

I have another voice question. Can an adult be given a YA voice and still remain an adult? I feel the same way someone mentioned earlier, where the adult voice is too drastic a change from what I'm used to for certain sims. I've been able to keep sims at the YA stage while living in the regular neighborhood, but there are a lot of problems with it. The not being able to dress for work thing and the spontaneous aging into adult while pregnant or moving, to name two. I have a pregnant female who I want to keep the YA voice. Neither of the adult female voices seem to work for her.

[radiophonic]

means "You again?  Quit calling me, Marsha!"

Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!