From lcampbell@berkeley.edu Mon Jan 02 21:06:40 1995
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From: lcampbell@berkeley.edu (Liam Campbell)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.
In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.

I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones.

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Liam Campbell
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In article <1995Jan02.210640.4216@berkeley.edu>, lcampbell@berkeley.edu (Liam Campbell) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

-- 
Camila Johansson -- University of Texas at Austin
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."