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How to Make Google Translate Beatbox

Not sure if this falls in the category of Easter Egg or clever manipulation, but either way, there go our afternoons: Redditor harrichr has devised a scheme for turning Google Translate into a makeshift beatbox machine.

1) Go to [1] Google Translate

2) Set the translator to translate German to German

3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch

4) Click “listen”

5) Be amazed :)

For the lazy, just click this link and it’ll be done for you.

There’s nothing magical about this particular sequence, and there’s tons of room for experimentation: In German, anyway, “pv” and “zk” make complementary breathy sounds and clicks, respectively. Spaces add pauses. No idea why “bsch” makes that parrot-chirpy sound, but there you go. For some reason, German seems to be the best language for this, since German Google Translate rapidly strings vowelless consonants where it tends to enunciate each one in some other languages. (Which isn’t to say that there aren’t yet more tricks elsewhere.) After a little bit of playing around, “r,” “w,” and “f” seem to be promising letters for beatboxing purposes as well.

Update: Hacker News reader iamdave has come up with a pretty comprehensive Google Translate beatboxing guide:

Here’s your rudiment/instrument notation

zk = suspended cymbal

bschk = snare

pv = brush

bk = bass

tk = flam1

vk = roll tap

kt = flam2

kttp = flam tap

krp = hi hat tap

pv = short roll

th = better hi hat

thp, ds = instant rimshot.

(Reddit via Create Digital Music)

  • http://twitter.com/taynq Peter Dudek IV

    Also, adding punctuation into the translator causes breaks for even more control over the sound.

  • http://www.thisisjoe.net YJawhar

    Did you notice that Google changed the “Listen” button to “Beatbox” on this?

  • http://ingilizceogreniyorumdersleri.blogspot.com/ Ahmetkan55

    Wery nice!

  • brandon

    also. if you put ‘mn’ its a real good bass sound

  • STR1PES

    kttp zk bk zk kt thp bschk zk thp kt bschk zk bk zk thp kt bschk kttp vk vk vk kttp kkkkkk bsch

  • Eatsforaliving

    bk krp bschk bk bk bsch krp bk krp bschk bk pv bk bsch

  • twista

    pv pv zk zk kz krp krp krp kkkkk bk bk tk tk :D

  • Collakusamuel

    pc pc ua ua pc pc ua ua

  • Geli

    Yea .

  • hotwire

    heyyyyyy :) i need som1 to talk to and it said “0 mins ago” waah? :D

  • http://ingilizceogreniyorumdersleri.blogspot.com Ahmet

    I like this website

  • Siakeya

    you forgot to add “sfg”

  • http://popularhowtoebooks.net Mikegervis

    Awesome tools…thanks for the tips

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  • Dylans

    that is so delicous

  • Dylans

    I like this

  • Gjudki

    It’s interesting that certain soft constants start to change pitch and make a melody of sorts, which will even bend a little with question marks. I assume it has something to do with the algorithm that tells it to start at a high pitch, and end on a lower one.

    bm, bm, bm? mn, mn, mn? dm, dm, dm? rd, rd, rd.

    You can make some cool synth sounding sounds too with “wr” and “wrwr”:
    wr wr wr wr, wrwr-th, wrwr th, wrwr-th, wrwr th. tttt thp tttt thp thp, wrwr-th?

    …and this was fun:
    bm, bm, bm, bm bk th th ds, bm bk th th bschk, bm bm bschk chk chk bm pv bm, bschk.

  • As Twice

    Now google renamed the listen link into Beatbox

  • Shay Kingz

    hahahahahahahahahahahahaha what u say u dumdum

  • Kimsimsom

    wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow haahahahahahahahhaahha

  • Kimsimsom

    wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Kimsimson

    what did you mean sfg

  • Kimsimson

    what

  • Cazyardley

    bk krp bschk krp bk krp bschk krk mnmnmnmn th th th th th th bsch DO IT!! :)

  • diddyboo

    bzz is also working :)

  • Guillermoigt

    bzz bz bzz bz bzz bzz? bzz bz bzz bz bzz bzz kkkkkk bsch kkkk vz vz vz kt kt bsch

  • Dragonlover140

    Not really, for mine it made a wierd sound like a tuba

  • Dragonlover140

    That’s not a rap

  • michael hans

    nice shoot

  • Some-one

    this one good…

    bm, bm, bm?, bm bk th th ds, bm bk? th th bschk, bm bm bschk ?chk chk bm pv bm?, bschk.
    wrth wrth wr

  • Xenia-ferreiro

    hmmm

  • Colton Andrews

    Try :D

  • Steeve

    kttp bschk bzz bschk th kt ts bschk pv ts bschk kt kt kt bschk bschk ts pvpvpvpv kkkkkkkk bsch wwww = lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/gary.warman Gary Warman

    bmrdbmrd k, bmrdbmrd j, bmrdbmrd h? bmrdbmrd k!

  • Morgan Maguire

    you can make a kind of noice in french write aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • http://twitter.com/musixall Samiya R. Rizwan

    This one’s amazing. :o (Y)
    Better than them all. C=

  • Jhutchins98123

    Heheh, listen to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa in german, too!

  • yo momma

    zk zk zk pv pv pv zk pv bschk bschk th thp kttp krp kt ds zk pv zk th th kttp kttp ds ds th th bschk zk zk pv pv pv zk d

  • Cbcam1

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa kkkkkkk aaaaaaa kkkk

  • http://koowie.com Koowie

    It’s like a new language.

  • Bob

    Lmfao this is hilarious! I Love this! And did anyone notice at the bottom, it says “beatbox” so this must be sort of like a joke from Google.

  • http://profiles.google.com/5ifty1 C E

    Getting some sound going…

    wwwwwpsk llllllll pskkkkpsk llllllllllmmmm, wwwwwpsk llllllll pskkkkpsk llllllllmmmmm!

  • Anonymous

     vipshopper.us

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  • hergest

    best you will ever see xD bm? bm. bm? bm. bm? bm.bm?

  • gooberdude

    It’s a little long so you may have to listen to it 1 line at a time but….
    wr wr wp? wr wr wp?bm pt wr? wr wr! vmp! wr wr wp? wr wr wp? wr wr wp! vmp! wr wp wr? wp wr wp! pt bm wr?

  • gooberdude

    It’s a little long so you may have to listen to it 1 line at a time but….
    wr wr wp? wr wr wp?bm pt wr? wr wr! vmp! wr wr wp? wr wr wp? wr wr wp! vmp! wr wp wr? wp wr wp! pt bm wr?

  • DecibelAlex

    bmrd k! sounds like vodka :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cees-Timmerman/1564999382 Cees Timmerman

    This can also be used to speak other languages. I used an English voice of the Microsoft TTS system to speak Dutch text years ago.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VMLK435DVTU7OO5VKUKPNUALSA Lisa

    LISTEN TO IT IN SPANISH. LMFAO. “nmnmnmnmnmn”

  • Andrewnenow

    Instead of listen, when you put it into the translator now it says “beatbox”. people at google are pretty rad

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4CJFSWSF6NJQ2QO56FEBHKHJM K

    I enjoy that google wonders if the “bsch” is intended to be a third “bk”

  • http://www.musichostnetwork.com Music

    great post

  • Blazed

    German to Danish works very well too. The “bsch” at the end is deeper and more raw sounding,

  • Kaushik Viswanath

    Google turns off the button after a few attempts though. I wonder why.

  • Ebagger

    I tried it recently and the new google translator didn’t seem to let me translate german to german. However, if you set the starting language to German and hover over the “listen” button, it will actually say “beatbox”. I love when google picks up on these things.

  • John

    uh. 
    wwwwwwww? wwwwww, ww, wwwww, wwwwwww. wwwwwwwwww, wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

  • Mike

    it doesn’t work anymroe :(

  • asiandiablo

    Try to translate this from CHINESE to CHINESE
    bx bsh dsh bk bsh bk bsh bsh bsh dsh bk bsh bk bsh bx dx bsh dsh nsh nsh bs dsh nsh nx nsh bsh

  • Sammieantha

    Just saying………When you should be clicking listen………..it says beatbox XD

  • Secret

    ryan rastegar

  • http://twitter.com/Shuttur Shuttur

    This is very cool… love it

  • Alern6

    listen to it in Welsh

  • Charmensilver

    pstpk, pkk? pstpk, pkk? pstpk, pkk?

  • http://twitter.com/#!/christinebreese Christine Breese

    Thanks!

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  • Tommy Smith

    And if you write hahaha over and over again in Italian or French it sounds like a machine!

  • Archie

    This in Russian is interesting. But Danish…

  • Luis Manarang

    Try this:
    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa in Norweigan, Vietnamese, Armenian, Afrikaans, and Russian(the funniest one)

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  • Jamela

    szx  szxx  sszxzvvv szx szxx sszxzvvv.  vvv  szx szxx sszxzxxstnntntnntn tnntntnntn nh vvv. szx szxx

  • UnderWaterTurkey…

    Loook try this one!un un un un un un un der der der der der der wa wa wa wa wa wa ter!
    In English

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    Loook try this one!un un un un un un un der der der der der der wa wa wa wa wa wa ter!
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  • http://www.a2zgreetings.com Nasreenwaris

    nice good article

  • lotus

    vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvidddddd rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriddddddd goooogggggggleeeee  try this german to english

  • lotus

    nmnmnmnmnmnmnmmmnnmnnmnmnmnmnnmmnmnmnnmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnmmmmmmmnnmnmnmbbbbrrrrr  spanish to english

  • Bob2

    dd dd dada dadada dadadadada in english

  • Master_of_beats

    thp, ds thp, ds pv pv pv zk zk bk bschk bk pv bschk vk vk vk. bk bk bk?

  • Mike

    Go from English to Japanese and copy this oo ; ooo; oo ; oo ; ooo ; oo ; oeoeoeoeoeeeeeHit listen and enjoy! haha

  • zunga

    bk krp bschk bk bk bsch krp bk krp bschk , bk bsch krp bk krp bschk kkkkk bk bsch krp bk bk bsch

  • zunga

    kkkkkkk bm zk bschk zk bm zk bschk bm zk bschk kkkkk bschk zk bm zk bschk bm kkkkk bschk  bm?

  • guest

    if you actually do it and not click their link it sounds nothing like that.

  • Zaphod

    Doesn’t work at all for me.  The “Beatbox” button is broken.

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    don’t work

  • Johnbon

    *Doesn’t

  • Anonymous

    yea it works. and btw does anyone have/know any “lyrics” for beatboxing on google translate?

  • fkingasian1

    f’k yes das AMEZZINGNESH <3 like if you agreee

  • Guest

    Chinese : pspsppspspspspspsopspljhgfdrtsp

  • http://xpesos.com/pesos/ josephi

    i need to try this looks awesome

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003003651842 Damon Macke

    wr , wr , wr wr wr bshk , zk , zk , zk zk kttp , vk vkvk vk ds thp pvpv pv wr , wr kttp bshk wwwrrr

  • smileyface

    This one is sooooo good!
    bk kt, bschk, bk kp, bschk, bk kt, bschk, ds ds ds ds ds ds ds ds bk kp, bschk, bk kp, bschk, bk kp.

  • Klamb1121

    bk pv pv pv bschk pv pv pv bk pv pv pv tkkt pv pv pv bk pv thp pv bschk pv ds pv bsch bsch bsch bsch

  • ray

    bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bschk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bschk zk

  • ray

    bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bschk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bschk zk

  • ray

    bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bschk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bk bschk bk bk bschk zk

  • smd

    when does the speaker symbol come back?

  • george

    yo this shits awesome^

  • Smithsangel1

    I will talk to you give me your number

  • Pancakeman0

    its fucked up. cuz it says P V T P V T

  • Ariedy97

    TUBA!! :D

  • Guestguestguest

    it doesn’t work anymore :(

  • Robertotapia36

    i cantt put german to german 

  • anonymous

    If you actually copy and paste it does not sound the same this is a SCAM!

  • Tzitzke

    Poopface 2 is my number

  • Xfdcxxd

    hahahaha

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    I swear to god this is how they make dubstep.. 

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  • rasdfasdf

    doesnt work anymore.


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