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Old 12-30-2018, 02:35 AM   #19
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Default Re: [GAME] Incorporate a Cyberpunk Megacorp

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Voice synthesis, is even better, with dozens of accents and voices available for even obscure languages (There are at least 3 different Quenya voice sets).
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Answer 17 [STG] - Trends (3 of 5): Voizing, Speezing & Gibboneze

A fairly simple set of procedures modifying a user's vocal chords, larynx, palate, tongue and diaphragm with polymer inserts, microcontrollers and artificial muscles, allows them to achieve a range of vocal tricks, from changing their natural pitch or mimicking a celebrity's voice, to speaking in ultrasonic frequencies, emulating animals or creating entirely novel vocal characteristics. You can start with basic implants allowing a small set of voices, or go up to fully neurally integrated arrays with interface control for professional singers or voizer otaku.

Voizing is the trend where a sub-culture develops around one set or style of vocal mods. They still mainly speak their own language, but often develop new slang or word forms appropriate to their vocal set. Coyote voizers, for example, have a slew of insults using varying yipping sounds. It can take some time for a listener to become accustomed to a new voize, and some voizes, such as infra- or ultra-sonic ones, may need aural filters to even be heard. Some notable voizes include Coyote, which started in Arizona drug culture but has also caught on among corporate financiers in Berlin; Cheong-Jiog, which jumps unnaturally several registers across just one word, from bass to falsetto, used by dayglo clubber types in Pusan and Kyushu; and Hummingbird, widespread in SACA favelas and tunnel-shanty towns.

Then there's speezing. This is the less common trend, yet still widespread, of speaking in a completely new creole, or a conlang even, based on the vocal features of a particular voize. Most speezing is restricted to particular sub-cultures, but Sulawesi Gibboneze is now often heard world-wide. Gibbon voizing is one of the most basic procedures, and gibbon speeze arose among the street vendors, taxi drivers and tourist touts of Makassar, blending Bahasa with English, Cantonese and Tamal vocabulary, but all modulated into gibbon-style grunts and hoots. It became popular worldwide with the boom of Sulawesi street gang culture and coto-coto music sung in Gibboneze during the 2060s.

Tonal Cetaspeak is another speeze, widespread among high-end IT workers and in the hackersphere. It is a wholly constructed language based on dolphin and whale vocalisations, but includes a lot of artificial high-frequency vocal flexes as well, requiring a programmable voize array to properly articulate and hearing enhancements to properly understand.

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Question 24 [STG] - Main Languages
What are the top ten languages?
Answer 24 [STG] - Languages
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Sulawesi Gibboneze is not the official language anywhere, but it's quite commonly used on the street from Beijing to Beirut, and some Gibboneze derived terms and sounds show up in the slang of other languages. Many consumer device interfaces will include Gibboneze language functions to show they have "street cred" or "mass-market appeal."

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Question 26 [MC][Name 5] - TIO Facilities
Describe 5 TIO corporate facilities of special interest- weapons labs, cybernetics clinics, arcologies, testing grounds, secure villas, floating islands, space stations, and such and so on.
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