Voice

Over the years, Simlish speech and voice has been provided by a wide range of different actors, each giving their own style and charm to the Sims they voice.
==The Sims==
In The Sims, male Adult Sims are voiced by Stephen Kearin, while female adult voices are performed by Gerri Lawlor."Simlish Voice Video (from The Sims 1)". YouTube. Retrieved on 29 September 2014. These two actors are the inventors of the Simlish language."Stephen Kearin". IMDb. Retrieved on 29 September 2014."Gerri Lawlor". IMDb. Retrieved on 29 September 2014. Sean O' Connor, Laurel McCarl Kapros, Paul Rausmussen, Melissa Burnside Roberts and Eli Sibley perform additional voices. In The Sims: Makin' Magic, Nikki Rapp makes her debut as the voice of Child Sims."The Sims™ 3 - Producenci odpowiadają #7". YouTube. Retrieved on 29 September 2014.
==The Sims 2==
In The Sims 2 there is a wider range of voice actors, to accommodate the increased number of life stages.
*Child Sims are, independently of their gender, voiced by Nikki Rapp.
*Teen males are voiced by Jack Conte, and teen females are voiced by Thessaly Lerner. If The Sims 2: University is installed, they are also the voices of Young Adults.
*Adults of each gender now have two separate voices, chosen automatically by the game upon the Sim's birth or creation in Create a Sim. The player cannot control which voice the Sim is given, though it is possible to change a Sim's voice using SimPE.The voice type appears as a hexadecimal code in the Sim Browser's "Other" tab. This can be edited, but players should be cautious about doing so. It is safer to copy the code from another Sim that has the voice you want, and replace the old code with the code from the other Sim. It is also possible for experienced players to identify the voice of their Sim in Create a Sim before they have confirmed their creation."Mod The Sims - Voices - Are you able to change them?". ModTheSims. Retrieved on 29 September 2014. Gerri Lawlor and Stephen Kearin return, voicing female and male sims, respectively."The Sims 2 (Video Game 2004)". IMDb. Retrieved on 29 September 2014. Stephen Kearin is also the voice of certain NPCs, such as ideal plantsim, Rod Humble, Unsavory Charlatan, and Bigfoot (NPC).All in-game Bigfoots are voiced by Dave Boat, with the exception of the NPC Bigfoot who is voiced by Stephen Kearin. If the player summons a Bigfoot using cheats, he will also be voiced by Stephen Kearin - all summoned Bigfoots are just normal Sims with Bigfoot accessories. However it is possible to change the voice of a "real" Bigfoot with SimPE. They are joined by Zoe Galvez, and Dave Boat, who voices certain NPCs such as the Grim Reaper, Genie, and Bigfoot.
*Elder voices are performed by Roger Jackson and Liz Mamorsky. Roger Jackson is also the voice of certain NPCs, such as the Therapist and Witch Doctor.
*The Baby and Toddler Sims are performed by Donna LeTourneau. Donna LeTourneau also performs many NPC voices in the expansion packs, including Mrs. Crumplebottom.
*In the Open for Business expansion pack, the mechanical-sounding voice of Servos is a heavily modified version of Stephen Kearin's voice.
*The voice on the other end of a telephone call in The Sims 2 is always a modified version of Stephen Kearin's voice, regardless of that Sim's age, gender, or life state.
*In The Sims 2, all adult male ghosts are voiced by Stephen Kearin, while all adult female ghosts are voiced by Gerri Lawlor, regardless of the voice they have when they are alive.
*In Life Stories, all adult males are voiced by Stephen Kearin, while all adult females are voiced by Gerri Lawlor. Because the voices of Dave Boat and Zoe Galvez don't exist in Life Stories, changing the hexadecimal code will not change the voice the Sim has as an adult.
===Notes===
==The Sims 2 (Nintendo DS)==
In The Sims 2 for Nintendo DS, different actors were hired from the PC/Mac version. According to the game's credits, these actors were Sean Cook, Rebecca Olson, Cheryl Platz, Geoff Card, Tony Ravo, Bill Schneider, Jay Barber and Stephanie Card, although some of the characters were sourced internally. Dan Posluns, one of the programmers, voiced Bigfoot.https://twitter.com/danposluns/status/1746735278709178533
== The Sims 2 (PSP) ==
In the Sims 2 for the PSP, there are also different voice actors to the PC/Mac version. The voice actors are credited as Ron Hippe and Kit Harris. All male sim’s voices are shared by Ron and female sims are voiced by Kit.
==The Sims 3==
In The Sims 3, players are able to choose their Sim's voice, and even alter the pitch. This voice stays consistent throughout the child, teen, young adult, adult, and elder life stages (Sims who are born in-game cannot have their voices changed). Unlike The Sims 2, the teen, young adult, adult, and elder life stages all use the same voice actors.
The player can choose between three different voices in Create a Sim for most life stages, but only two for children, and one for toddlers. Only two past voice actors return—Nikki Rapp and Donna LeTourneau. New voice actors include Khary Payton, Elisa Gabrielli, William Salyers, Georgina Cordova, Nicky Ralf, Will Blagrove, Becky Boxer, William Woff, and Deborah Ben-Eliezer.
*Babies and Toddlers are voiced by Donna LeTourneau
*Children are voiced by Nikki Rapp (Voice 1) and Georgina Cordova (Voice 2)
*Male Teens to Elders are voiced by William Salyers (Voice 1), Khary Payton (Voice 2), and Will Blagrove (Voice 3)
*Female Teens to Elders are voiced by Becky Boxer (Voice 1), Elisa Gabrielli (Voice 2), and Deborah Ben-Eliezer (Voice 3)
==The Sims 4==
In The Sims 4, there are nine voice actors who voice Sims with Simlish.Sims: The Official Magazine - Issue 6, "Starting with only three voice actors in the earlier games, The Sims voice team has now tripled to nine different actors." Some of the voice actors in The Sims 4 include Cia Court, Scott Whyte,The Sims 4: Cia Court & Scott Whyte (Voice Actors) on SimsVIP Krizia Bajos,Krizia Bajos: New Voice Actress for The Sims 4 on SimsVIP and Jessica DiCicco.Jessica DiCicco: New Voice Actress for The Sims 4 on SimsVIP Other voice actors include Hynden Walch, Taylor Parks, Arianna Ratner, Patrick Seitz, and Fred Tatasciore. Nikki Rapp, who has been a voice actor since The Sims: Makin' Magic, did not return in The Sims 4 at first,Nicki Rapp (Voice Actor) Says Goodbye to The Sims on SimsVIP but later returned in February 2016.https://simsvip.com/2016/02/25/voice-actor-nicki-rapp-returns-to-the-sims/ In the Create-a-Sim, players can choose a voice for their sim. Toddler sims can only have the sweet voice, children can have sweet or warm voice, and sims who are teens and older can have a sweet, melodic, lilted, clear, warm or brass voice. The player can adjust a sim's voice with a pitch-slider.
==Trivia==
*In several standalone games, there are mostly different voices. In The Sims: Castaway Stories, default The Sims 2 and The Sims voice is replaced with Deborah Ben-Eliezer (she later cast as Voice 3 Female in The Sims 3 and The Sims Mobile) and in The Sims Medieval there are new voices: Laura Bailey, Olivia Hack, Julie Nathans, Gideon Emery, Christina Pucelli and others.
*Patrick Seitz, a voice actor for The Sims 4, is very well known from anime and video game voice overs. Examples being Ragna the Bloodedge from the Blazblue Series, Franky from One Piece, Scorpion from the Mortal Kombat Series, Nyarlathotep from Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Nidai Nekomaru from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
*In The Sims 3, due to the unique voices for babies and toddlers, children maintain voice#1 child and so on, but there's a chance that the voices change when a Sim is an imaginary friend. Voice#2 child and voice#3 male / female is only changed through Create a Sim.
*Hynden Walch, a voice actress for The Sims 4, is the same voice actress for many cartoons including Princess Bubblegum in Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, and Starfire from Teen Titans.
*William Salyers, the voice actor for the Type A male voice in The Sims 3, is best known for his portrayal as Rigby the Raccoon in Cartoon Network's Regular Show.
*Stephen Kearin voiced some of the Boov in the 2015 film Home.
*Jack Conte, the voice actor for the teenage male in The Sims 2, is the co-founder of Patreon.
*William Salyers and Deborah Ben-Eliezer, who provided the first and third voices for male and female Sims in The Sims 3 respectively, make a return in The Sims Mobile.
*William Salyers and Becky Boxer, who provided the first voice for male & female Adults in The Sims 3 respectively, voiced Sims in The Sims FreePlay.
*In The Sims 4 the brothers Riley and Connor McDonough gave two type of voices.
*Jessica Diccio has voiced many characters such as Lucy Loud from the Loud House.
*Gerri Lawlor passed away in 2019.
*Roger Jackson, the actor for Elder Male Sims in The Sims 2 has known from his famous role as Mojo Jojo in The Powerpuff Girls Series [12]
*Another The Sims 2 voice actor, David "Dave" Boat also being known as voice actor for some other games and also provides his voice for one of Danny Phantom nemesis, Vortex, in Danny Phantom series and voicing Thor in most Marvel superheroes games and series [13]
*The voices from The Sims 3, 4, and possibly 2, all seem to be recorded on Gefell M930 Large Diaphragm Microphones, and possibly some Neumann TLM 103 Condenser Microphones.
==References==
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