History Main / TranslatorCollar

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Lady Rainicorn gets one, but it causes her to talk like an old man. It's a variant in that Lady Rainicorn already speaks a human language, specifically [[BilingualBonus Korean]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'': Jimmy has a device that lets him talk to fish.

--> '''Analyzer:''' (speaking Gamilan) <We hereby welcome you aboard as a ceasefire ambassador.> ''(Melda holds up her hand)''\\

* The Gamilas had developed a small device attached to the necks of their officers which allows them to translate language both ways as was demonstrated when Lower Storm Commander Melda Dietz boarded the ''Yamato'' to speak with the crew.

%%* An object similar to this is featured in R.L. Stein's ''{{Literature/Goosebumps}}'' book "Brain Juice".
* In the 1981 book '' {{Megalodon}}'' by Robin Brown, the protagonist scientist has developed the Janus device, a computer/vocoder/translator which enables him to teach two dolphins (nicknamed Doris and Macho) and a killer whale (Morgan) a rudimentary language (their own language is sophisticated enough to communicate three-dimensional sonar images -- it's converting that into language simple enough to be translated that's the problem).

->'''Russell:''' Cool! What do these do, boy? ''(Russell starts to fiddle with a dial on Dug's collar)''
->'''Dug:''' Hey. would you--''cuerdo con tigo''[[note]](Spanish) I will talk with you[[/note]] I use that collar ''watashi wa hanashi ma''.[[note]](Japanese) I will talk with you.[[/note]] to talk with ''(in Southern accent)'' I would be happy if you stop.
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''

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* Sakamoto's Handkerchief / Bandana / Collar in ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}''.
* Verg the SharkMan from Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6 wears one. [[spoiler:He destroys it in the last episode, realizing he doesn't want to talk to humans anymore.]]

* In ''ComicBook/{{We3}}'', the protagonists' cybernetic enhancements include translating their thoughts into human speech. Because the animals ''don't'' have human thought processes, however, the resulting speech is very YouNoTakeCandle.
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', Phylum-- trapped in the form of a chimpanzee-- receives one in the mail from an anonymous donor, giving him back his voice. [[spoiler:It's booby-trapped to give corrupting advice to Pronto from the lips of his best friend.]]

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* The dog collars in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' also come with different language settings and a screen with tra-'''SQUIRREL!''' tracking information.
* Steve the monkey in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' involves a sweatband and a Speak'n'Spell.

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* ''Film/InspectorGadget 2'', the sequel to the live-action ''Inspector Gadget'' movie, featured a collar that translates dog language to English, which they put on Brain.
* In the movie adaption of ''Film/{{Congo}}'' as in the book, Amy the gorilla had been taught sign-language. Unlike the book however, the movie gave her a robotic glove that would translate her signing into audible speech to make things easier on the audience.
* In the Disney live-action movie ''Film/TheCatFromOuterSpace'', the title character had a collar that could read his brainwaves and translate his thoughts into human speech (among many other remarkable capabilities).
* In the Australian film ''Film/{{Paws}}'' a [[IntellectualAnimal computer literate dog]] creates a computer program to translate his words to English. His human owner makes a portable version which the dog wears as a bow tie, also modifying the program to make him sound like Creator/BillyConnolly.

* Some short story concerned an ape who was implanted with a device that sent out radio waves. As I recall, some measure of relief came from having the speaker set up with an off switch, probably playing off Koko the Gorilla.
* ''Literature/RatsBatsAndVats'' by Creator/EricFlint and Creator/DaveFreer played with this trope. The anthropomorphic rats were genetically engineered to be bipedal. However, their minds were uplifted with alien microchip technology and they needed an implant to speak to humans.

%% * An object similar to this is featured in R.L. Stein's ''{{Literature/Goosebumps}}'' book "Brain Juice".

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* In ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'', Darwin the dolphin is able to communicate with his human crewmates using a device that Lucas built. However, due to the abstract nature of a dolphin's thought processes, his communications aren't always clear.
** In one episode, a rogue overhears Darwin "talk" and assumes the dolphin really can communicate in English. He captures Darwin when he goes out for a swim and tries to persuade him to reveal where the center of the universe is. When he is later allowed to talk to Darwin using the device, the dolphin tells him that the center of the universe is "inside [him]".
* In ''Series/PowerRangersSPD,'' a MonsterOfTheWeek who uses one of these switches bodies with Sky, and breaks it so Sky can't tell anyone. This... really shouldn't work, as Sky still knows English and the bad guy ''wouldn't,'' but maybe it's really a case of the alien's vocal cords not being able to make the right sounds.

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-->'''Scientist''': So. That's twenty years I'll never see again.

* Dan from Webcomic/BreakpointCity is a type 1 example of this. Dan's collar was made by his kid genius owner Ben, [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2008/12/01/precursor/ but has since been obsoleted in distant-future Ohio]], where voice implant surgery is commonplace in pets. Cool technology is unfortunately not as cool when you live in the future.
* A flashback arc of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' shows Judy using a pair of gloves inspired by the ''Congo'' film, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p18/ unfortunately]] they're about as unreliable as Google Translate and Siri combined.

* WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron has a device that lets him talk to fish.
* A scientist on ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' (episode "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright") also had a device that let him talk to fish. The fish looked at Scooby and said, "Scooby Doo! Scooby Doo!" He actually developed it to work on dolphins, since dolphins [[TruthInTelevision actually possess a language]]. It just also worked on fish, probably because of RuleOfFunny.
* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys''. A bratty kid shows Eliza (who can actually talk to animals) a device which can attract animals and demonstrates it on Darwin. After he leaves, Darwin asks Eliza what the device was and why it was talking about chicken soup.
* Related: In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Unkie Herb invented a Baby Translator, which transformed Maggie's "goo-goo-gaa-gaa" into phrases that the parents could understand like "Burp me," "Oh, dear, I seem to have soiled myself," etc.

--> I am a ghost. Fear me.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' had an episode where Professor Farnsworth's latest project involved a hat that would give monkeys human intellect and the ability to speak. PlayedForLaughs, of course.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Interview With a Platypus", the brothers think that Perry's chattering must be a form of AnimalTalk, and get to work on a Perry Translator. The translator turns out to work on all animals, which the brothers then use to tell pet owners what their pets want. At the end, they finally learn that Perry's chattering [[TheUnintelligible doesn't actually mean anything]].
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTiggerAndPooh'', Rabbit invents a device to translate what Buster's saying, which doesn't work. (Yes, Rabbit's a talking rabbit. Yes, he says [[FurryConfusion dogs can't really talk]]. [[MST3KMantra Just go with it]].)
* Brain also gets a translating collar when he makes a return appearance in ''WesternAnimation/GadgetAndTheGadgetinis''; in the earlier series he could only bark and mime.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Lady Rainicorn gets one, but it causes her to talk like an old man. It's a variant in that Lady Rainicorn already speaks a human language, specifically [[BilingualBonus Korean]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'' episode "Pedigree", Lincoln Clark creates a 'voice-box' for dog-scent sniffer-cat Boombah. They quickly discover that Boombah has nothing interesting to say, and that Simone has been lying about being able to talk to the cat.

* One episode of ''Literature/GeronimoStilton'' "If I Could Talk To The Animals" has this trope.
* A good example in ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'', where Kevin is the only one who can use a translating communicator that enables him to talk to animals, including Krypto. All animals can talk to each other but humans can't understand them without a [[TranslatorMicrobes intergalactic communicator]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' "Be-Knighted" has Ben noticing that the supposedly-feral [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]] is wearing an odd piece of damaged equipment on its throat and it makes several vocalizations that sound less like threatening roars and more like attempted speech. When the Dragon escapes, Ben talks to Kevin and finds out that the busted device was in fact one of these, finding an identical one in Kevin's stash (apparently, it's a pretty standard piece of alien tech to facilitate communication). Ben manages to swap out the Dragon's damaged one for the new one during their next fight, upon which Team Ben learns from the surprisingly eloquent Dragon that ''he'' is in fact a sapient alien that came to Earth as a mapmaker before being attacked and imprisoned by the Forever Knights for a thousand years like an animal as they tried to kill him. He's also [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge understandably bitter about whole affair and being separated from his friends and family]].

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/GeronimoStilton'' "If I Could Talk To The Animals" has this trope.

* ''ComicBook/{{We3}}'': the protagonists cybernetic enhancements include translating their thoughts into human speech. Because the animals ''don't'' have human thought processes, however, the resulting speech is very YouNoTakeCandle.

* ''ComicBook/BruteForce'': the protagonist.
* ''ComicBook/{{We3}}'': the protagonist.

* An object similar to this is featured in R.L. Stein's ''{{Literature/Goosebumps}}'' book "Brain Juice".

* In the Australian film ''Film/{{Paws}}'' a [[IntellectualAnimal computer literate dog]] creates a computer program to translate his words to English. His human owner makes a portable version which the dog wears as a bow tie.

* A scientist on ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' (episode "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright") also had a device that let him talk to fish. The fish looked at Scooby and said, "Scooby Doo! Scooby Doo!"
** He actually developed it to work on dolphins since dolphins actually posses a language. It just also worked on fish, probably because of RuleOfFunny.

* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Interview With A Platypus" had Phineas and Ferb work on a Perry Translator, that turned out to work on all animals, which they then used to tell pet owners what their pets want. It eventually turns out that Perry's "rrrrr!" didn't really mean anything.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Lady Rainicorn gets one, but it causes her to talk like an old man.

** In "Chimps Ahoy", one of Sandy's failed inventions is a helmet that lets you talk to nuts. [=SpongeBob=] tests it on a peanut, who says "It's dark in here."

Compare UniversalTranslator and contrast UpliftedAnimal. See also TranslatorMicrobes

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Chatterbox Gary" has [=SpongeBob=] buy a collar that translates Gary's meows and speak in the voice of Creator/KeithDavid.

* An object similar to this is featured in R.L. Stein's ''[[{{Literature/Goosebumps}}]]'' book "Brain Juice".

* An object similar to this is featured in R.L. Stein's ''[[Literature/Goosebumps]]'' book "Brain Juice".

* An object similar to this is featured in R.L. Stein's ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Goosebumps Goosebumps]]'' book "Brain Juice".

->'''Dug:''' Hey. would you--[[GratuitousSpanish cuerdo con tigo]][[note]]I will talk with you[[/note]] I use that collar [[GratuitousJapanese watashi wa hanashi ma]].[[note]]I will talk with you.[[/note]] to talk with ''(in Southern accent)'' I would be happy if you stop.

* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Interview With A Platypus" had Phineas and Ferb work on a Perry Translator, that turned out to work on all animals, which they then used to tell pet owners what their pets want.
** And it eventually turned out Perry's "rrrrr!" didn't really mean anything.

* A variant of sorts happens in ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' in which Gyro uses a voice modulator to make the normally [[TheUnintelligible unintelligible]] Donald Duck sound normal (specifically, like Creator/DonCheadle).

A home-grown variety of translation device that can turn your trusty pet into a TalkingAnimal. Given their AmplifiedAnimalAptitude, this is usually a good thing.

-->'''Scientist'': So. That's twenty years I'll never see again.