Here's a random story if ever there was one: a parakeet has managed to faithfully recreate all of the little bleeps and bloops that can be heard while navigating the Nintendo Switch home menu. And it's utterly fantastic.
Not content with copying mainstream phrases like 'who's a pretty boy, then?', this parakeet has proudly pledged its allegiance to the gaming community by talking in - what we like to call - Switch language. If you listen carefully, you might recognise all the familiar jingles from the system's home menu - such as opening up your profile and checking your friends list - and even the sound made when scrolling through your games at high speed.
We'd love to see it take a crack at the GameCube loading screen, but this is still pretty cool nonetheless. If you're reading, little parakeet, we salute you.
We'll have absolutely no negativity shared towards this wonderful bundle of feathers and joy in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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I can't help but be sceptical about this...
Watch out, Nintendo may sue for using their IP without permission.
@RedBlueCarrots
This.
Fun fact: I misread your nickname like RedBlueParrots, obviously
Okay, I could blame NL for slow news day, but I did click on this.
@dugan you're welcome!
Who visits the profile page enough for a parakeet to learn the jingle? The scrolling I suppose if you can't decide a game or mess around with settings enough. There's definitely the home screen noise When quitting a game missing, that's the ine that comes out of my switch the most.
Woo to sounding like a quitter. XD
@Jayofmaya the sounds are similar enough to actual forest sounds that it probably picked up on them pretty quickly. Also, those sounds play more often than you’d think, especially when changing out controllers and other options.
Interesting. The home menu has some neat sound effects.
I don't doubt the authenticity of this for a second.
When we were younger my mate had a parrot that used to repeat all the phrases from Sega rally championship on saturn.
It was hilarious when he used to say "Game over yeeeaaaaaaaah"
The parrot flew out the window one day and never came back!
This made me realize how many bird-like sounds the switch has 🤔
This is wonderful. I don't care if it's fake, I'm just gonna assume it's not bc parakeets are great.
Sorry to break it to you guys, but parakeets, just like squids, are not real.
Source: There are no parakeets in my house.
This is adorable AND awesome! This little guy is talented.
Well, if a wild jungle bird can learn to imitate photo camera sounds because of it being photographed so much, then it would surely be possible for a domesticated parakeet to learn game console sounds, so any skepticism towards this is unwarranted.
And like somebody else also noticed, the menu sounds that the Switch makes, already sound quite natural and/or birdlike, so it probably isn't too much of an effort for the bird to reproduce them in the first place.
I mean, Switch sounds are closer to bird sounds that human speech and some birds can copy that, so this really isn't surprising.
This bird has talent.
Just like the parakeets from the 3DS Camera!
Oh that was so cute! :3
@Sean161 You are right, I was wrong. I like NL, I clicked on the story, I shouldn't complain. Sorry, friend.
@ThanosReXXX : Lyrebirds can also learn to imitate the sound of chainsaws...
@Silly_G Well there you go. I looked it up and found that the Lyre bird actually was the wild bird I had in mind:
@ThanosReXXX : They're native to Australia, and don't receive the same love as other native species such as koalas, kangaroos, and kookaburras (which are tragically a rarity in the suburbs now due to introduced species invading their turf). Waking up to the sweet laughter of kookaburras is something that I sorely miss from my childhood.
Incidentally, lyrebirds are also on our 10 cent piece. Like so much of our native wildlife, they're incredible creatures that hardly receive the attention that they deserve.
@Silly_G Yeah, society vs nature: always both a precarious topic and situation, and unfortunately, nature almost always gets the short end of the stick.
And much like with that Lyre bird, we also ruin nature with our technology. Over here, in the various parks and woods, there's also a number of wild birds that have started to imitate artificial sounds, such as smart phone ring tones and what not, and this is seriously affecting their chances of finding a mate, because obviously, the female birds don't react to these artificial sounds at all, which in turn of course impacts the species as a whole.
@ThanosReXXX The camera shutter, and chainsaw were impressive, as was the fact that this one bird sounded like an entire forest's worth of different species, but I can't wait for the talented beastie to impersonate David Attenborough.
@Tempestryke Haha, well, you might never know, although this particular bird hasn't really been known to speak human. He probably left that up to the actual parrots...
But if you thought that was interesting, then there's plenty more where that came from on YouTube.
@RedBlueCarrots,
Me too, but would be very cool if it was true.
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