There are a couple of words that the Chips can't say correctly, or other vocal glitches/quirks. This list will be sorted by character.
These pronunciation issues can virtually all be fixed by using the X-Sampa mode/using brackets around X-Sampa input in talker mode.
Pronunciation issues[]
All Chips[]
- Aeroplane: All of the Chips, except for original Cidertalk, original Rotten and VODER all pronounce it as "air-uh-plane". Typing "air-o-plane" will fix this issue.
- Booger: All Chips pronounce it as "boo-gur".
- Live: All of the Chips will pronounce it as the verb (for example: "I live in an apartment", as opposed to "a live studio audience"). This can be fixed by typing "lyv'" instead.
- Nanometer: Everybody except for original Cidertalk, original Rotten and SAM pronounces it as "nuh-na-mit-ter".
- Pterodactyl: Everybody except for original Cidertalk, original Rotten and SAM pronounces it as "truh-dactill".
SAM[]
- Bear: SAM pronounces "bear" as "beer". This can be fixed by typing "bare" instead.
- Casino: He pronounces "casino" as "case-in-oh".
- Certificate: SAM pronounces it as "certifi-Kate", rhyming with "eight".
- Coelacanth: SAM pronounces "coelacanth" as "ko-ella-canth".
- Diabetes: He pronounces it as "di-ay-beets".
- Flamingo: He pronounces it as "flaming-o".
- Flower: He pronounces "flower" as "flow-er", instead of rhyming with "power".
- Flour: He says "floor" instead of "flour".
- Gigabytes: He pronounces it as "gih-gah-beets"
- Honest: He pronounces it as "hone-est".
- Invite: He pronounces it as "in-vitt".
- Liar: He pronounces "liar" as "lee-are". This can be fixed by typing "lie-er" instead.
- Literally: He says "lighter-ully".
- Sour: He pronounces "sour" as "sore".
- Online: He pronounces it as "on-linn" instead.
- Onstage: He says "on-stigg" instead of "onstage". This can be fixed by putting a space between "on" and "stage".
- Plugins: He pronounces it as "ploo-jins". This can be corrected by putting a space between "plug" and "ins".
- Proactive: He pronounces it as "pro-tiv".
- Promise: He pronounces it as "pro-myze".
- Prophecy: He pronounces it as "pro-feh-see."
- Punish: He pronounces it as "pew-nish".
- Quadruple: He pronounces it as "quahd-rupple".
- Superhero: He pronounces it as "super-hirro".
Rotten.ST[]
- Australia: Rotten pronounces "Australia" as "orster-alia".
Original VB exclusive: Rotten's updated version does not make these pronunciation errors but his original version does.[]
- Aliens: He pronounces "aliens" as "ull-yens".
- Bear: He says "beer" instead of "bear", the same way SAM does.
- Bought: He pronounces it as "bort".
- Casino: He pronounces "casino" the same way SAM does.
- Certificate: He pronounces "certificate" the same way as SAM.
- Coelacanth: He pronounces "coelacanth" the same way SAM does.
- Diabetes: He pronounces it the same way SAM does, saying "di-ay-beets".
- Flamingo: He pronounces it the same way SAM does, saying "flaming-o".
- Gigabytes: He says "gigabits" instead of "gigabytes".
- Honest: He pronounces it the same way SAM does.
- Online: He pronounces it the same way SAM does.
- Onstage: He pronounces it the same way SAM does.
- Plugins: He pronounces it the same way SAM does.
- Promise: He pronounces it the same way SAM does.
- Punish: He pronounces it the same way SAM does.
- Quadruple: He pronounces it the same way SAM does.
- Superhero: He pronounces it as "super-ho".
Cidertalk '84[]
Original VB exclusive: Cidertalk's updated version does not make these pronunciation errors but his original version does.[]
- Bear: He says "beer" instead, the same way original Rotten and SAM do.
- Casino: He pronounces "casino" the same way SAM and original Rotten do.
- Certificate: He pronounces it to rhyme with "eight", the same way SAM and original Rotten do.
- Coelacanth: He pronounces "coelacanth" the same way SAM and original Rotten do.
- Diabetes: He pronounces it the same way SAM and original Rotten do.
- Gigabytes: He pronounces it the same way SAM does.
- Honest: He pronounces it as "hun-ist".
- Liar: He says "leer" instead. This can be fixed the same way SAM's pronunciation of "liar" is fixed.
- Hyper: He pronounces it as "habber".
- Plugins: He pronounces it the same way SAM and original Rotten do.
- Proactive: He pronounces it as "pro-tyv".
- Promise: He pronounces it the same way SAM and original Rotten do.
- Punish: He pronounces it the same way as SAM and original Rotten.
- Superhero: He pronounces it the same way as SAM.
Lady Parsec[]
- Plugins: She pronounces it with an f sound, like "pflugins".
Original VB exclusive: Lady Parsec HD does not make these pronunciation errors but her original version does[]
- Bear: She adds an "uh" sound at the end of "bear", saying "bear-a".
Otto Mozer[]
- Plugins: He pronounces it as "ploo-gens".
- Tweeted: He pronounces it as "tway-ted".
Assorted vocal glitches[]
Dee[]
- Inputting a "ya-i" sound will cause Dee's voice to dip a bit. This effect seems to be rather inconsistent and will not always happen.
SAM[]
- Perhaps the most famous vocal glitch on here, putting too many of the same syllable on the same line (for example, putting over about 30 "ha's" or "weu's" in a row) will cause him to make a jarring staticky hissing sound. This phenomenon is called "tone stacking", and is rooted in SAM's expression/emotion calculations being unable to handle that many syllables.