From rperez@uni-hamburg.de Wed Aug 24 09:14:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!rperez From: rperez@uni-hamburg.de (Rodrigo Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug24.091400.3098@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 09:14:00 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- === Rodrigo Pérez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "Hold for relay." From snakamura@cmu.edu Thu Aug 25 00:44:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!snakamura From: snakamura@cmu.edu (Steve Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug25.004400.3683@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 00:44:00 GMT References: <1994Aug24.091400.3098@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug24.091400.3098@uni-hamburg.de>, rperez@uni-hamburg.de (Rodrigo Pérez) writes: > There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Steve Nakamura Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From jnakamura@netcom.com Fri Aug 26 19:02:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!jnakamura From: jnakamura@netcom.com (Ji-woo Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug26.190200.6763@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 19:02:00 GMT References: <1994Aug24.091400.3098@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Aug25.004400.3683@cmu.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Aug25.004400.3683@cmu.edu>, snakamura@cmu.edu (Steve Nakamura) writes: > Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Ji-woo Nakamura Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From alindqvist@stanford.edu Sat Aug 27 07:10:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!alindqvist From: alindqvist@stanford.edu (Anton Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug27.071000.7970@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 07:10:00 GMT References: <1994Aug24.091400.3098@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug24.091400.3098@uni-hamburg.de>, rperez@uni-hamburg.de (Rodrigo Pérez) writes: > There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Anton Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From mlopez@tum.de Sun Aug 28 14:54:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!mlopez From: mlopez@tum.de (Mateo López) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug28.145400.2503@tum.de> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 14:54:00 GMT References: <1994Aug24.091400.3098@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Aug25.004400.3683@cmu.edu> <1994Aug26.190200.6763@netcom.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug26.190200.6763@netcom.com>, jnakamura@netcom.com (Ji-woo Nakamura) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- === Mateo López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "Marcus is not one man."