From mnovak@berkeley.edu Sat Jun 25 10:56:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!mnovak From: mnovak@berkeley.edu (Mike Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jun25.105626.5570@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 10:56:26 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Mike Novak -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Row 14. No joke." From mnilsson@stanford.edu Sat Jun 25 20:39:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!mnilsson From: mnilsson@stanford.edu (Marta Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jun25.203926.3347@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 20:39:26 GMT References: <1994Jun25.105626.5570@berkeley.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun25.105626.5570@berkeley.edu>, mnovak@berkeley.edu (Mike Novak) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Marta Nilsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From lgonzalez@kth.se Sun Jun 26 20:47:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kth!lgonzalez From: lgonzalez@kth.se (Lisa González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jun26.204726.9575@kth.se> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 20:47:26 GMT References: <1994Jun25.105626.5570@berkeley.edu> <1994Jun25.203926.3347@stanford.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun25.203926.3347@stanford.edu>, mnilsson@stanford.edu (Marta Nilsson) 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. -- Lisa González US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Do not worship the copy."