In looking through some video for the recorded shout audio, I've come across a rather interesting oddity. Male Argonians use the generic Human Shout Audio, and Female Elves use the generic Human Shout Audio. However Male Elves & Female Argonians both have their own, unique Shouts. I've made a breakdown of the audio used in the Unrelenting Force Shout: "Fus Roh Dah." There're links to the audio clips (uploaded on YouTube).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Al35lmo7I

? Nord (1:07-1:24), Imperial (1:49-2:00), Breton (2:40-2:48), Redguard (0:00-0:20), Argonian (2:58-3:08)
? Wood Elf (0:25-0:43), High Elf (2:07-2:16), Dark Elf (2:23-2:33)
? Orc (0:48-1:01)
? Khajiit (1:31-1:43)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhqTWwnwdn8

? Nord (0:03-0:10), Imperial (1:03-1:08), Breton (0:26-0:35), Redguard (1:38-1:44), Wood Elf (1:48-1:55), High Elf (0:52-0:58), Dark Elf (0:39-0:47)
? Argonian (0:16-0:24)
? Orc (1:26-1:33)
? Khajiit (1:13-1:22)



What's most interesting about this is that the Orc & Khajiit have unique audio in both male & female forms. I find it odd that the Elves and Argonians don't get the same level of treatment. The Argonians arguably have the most non-human sounding voices of the available races due to the raspyness that's ever-present when they speak, so it's especially awkward hearing them sound so human-like.

I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed this while playing through Skyrim, and if there were any thoughts about apparently shortchanging the female Elves and male Argonians on unique Shout audio. (Since so far as I've been able to find, there aren't any audio files for them, so this issue isn't even technically a bug that can be fixed).


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I had wondered about this. I don't think the dark elf audio sounds right at all- I even speculated that it was all just default nord voices all round. Then I played Redguard male and thought that would have sounded much better for dark elf!

Thanks for compiling this- great info.

I'm more worried about why my Khajiit female decided to change "Krii Lun" into "Yol Lun" with the Marked For Death shout.

Using level 1 it's clearly "KRIIIII"

But level 2 is clearly "YOOOOL....LUUUN"