Love the art style! Especially underwater - Fred's oozing personality with just a still image (and not to mention he's got a pretty great name). Fascinated with the concept of transcribing human speech as well, though unfortunately it doesn't always play as well as it should. The colours were easy enough to figure out without direction, but it's difficult to focus on the words when they keep jumping around. I suppose it's inevitable unless the different words are more or less the same length. I would consider cutting out the 'best fit' option for normal conversation, at least. I hope to see this one polished one day as I think it has great potential. Maybe have the protagonist attempt to communicate with the humans or use his knowledge in some other way? Keep it up!
(Also cut Gary some slack, jeez)