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WhaleSay

a human → whale translator

Say or type it.
Hear it back in whale.

Type or speak, and your words come back in whoops, clicks and rumbles. A bubble full of whale, with sound to match. Wonderfully useless. Impossible to put down.

free to try ✿

In human

“Hello, how are you?”|

Whale · Humpback5 glyphs
app screenshot

How it works

  1. §I screenshot
    §I you say a thing

    Type a line or hold the mic and talk. Say anything. The sillier, the better.

  2. §II screenshot
    §II it swims out to sea

    Your words dive under the waves to a whale who’s been itching to translate.

  3. §III screenshot
    §III it echoes back in whale

    Out floats a bubble of whoops and clicks. Tap any glyph to hear it again.

six whales, six accents

Pick your whale

Each one mangles your words in its own glorious dialect. Say the exact same thing to an Orca and a Narwhal and you’ll get two completely different answers. Both equally made up.

Humpback whale, drawn by hand

Humpback

the long, looping crooner

Scientific name: Megaptera novaeangliae

Sings ballads that drift for miles. Will absolutely make it weird at parties.

sound sample

translated as

  • whoom
  • uuu-weee
  • loooop-song
  • mmmrrr
Blue whale, drawn by hand

Blue

the deepest rumble alive

Scientific name: Balaenoptera musculus

Speaks so low you feel it in your teeth. The biggest voice in the ocean, and it knows.

sound sample

translated as

  • brrrrm
  • looooow
  • thrum
Orca whale, drawn by hand

Orca

sharp, chatty, pod-specific

Scientific name: Orcinus orca

Clicks like it has somewhere to be. Every pod has its own slang and strong opinions.

sound sample

translated as

  • click
  • ee-ee-eek
  • krrt
  • whistle-up
Beluga whale, drawn by hand

Beluga

the canary of the sea

Scientific name: Delphinapterus leucas

Chirps, whistles, and squeaks like a kettle that learned gossip. Endlessly cheerful.

sound sample

translated as

  • chirp
  • tweee
  • squeak-eek
Sperm whale, drawn by hand

Sperm

patterned click codas

Scientific name: Physeter macrocephalus

Taps out little rhythms to say who it is. Basically a Morse code enthusiast with a huge head.

sound sample

translated as

  • tk-tk-tk
  • clk
  • tk—tk
  • coda
Narwhal whale, drawn by hand

Narwhal

the unicorn of the arctic

Scientific name: Monodon monoceros

Rare, shimmery pulses from a whale with a sword on its face. Yes, really. We love it here.

sound sample

translated as

  • pii-ng
  • pulse
  • shimmer

~ field note № 7 · whale dialect

Not affiliated with any actual whale.

They’re hard to reach, so every whoop, click and rumble in here is scientifically inaccurate. On purpose.

exhibit a · attempted translation
“Hello, how are you?”
  • whoooom
  • uuu-weee
  • loooop
  • mmm-rrr
  • song~

Disclaimer stamp: not peer reviewed. Zero percent accurate, one hundred percent fun.

last stop before the deep end

Now go talk like a whale.

It’s free, with nothing to sign up for. Say anything you like. A whale will mangle it right back.

all six whales live in here ✿