From tpark@uu.net Fri Jan 13 07:36:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uu!tpark From: tpark@uu.net (Takeshi Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jan13.073618.6602@uu.net> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 07:36:18 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Takeshi Park Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From kandersson@rwth-aachen.de Sun Jan 15 02:09:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!kandersson From: kandersson@rwth-aachen.de (Kenji Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jan15.020918.5541@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 02:09:18 GMT References: <1995Jan13.073618.6602@uu.net> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan13.073618.6602@uu.net>, tpark@uu.net (Takeshi Park) 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. -- Kenji Andersson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From jmartinez@utexas.edu Sun Jan 15 16:23:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!jmartinez From: jmartinez@utexas.edu (Joachim Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jan15.162318.3013@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 16:23:18 GMT References: <1995Jan13.073618.6602@uu.net> <1995Jan15.020918.5541@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan15.020918.5541@rwth-aachen.de>, kandersson@rwth-aachen.de (Kenji Andersson) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Joachim Martínez "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Atari Falcon 030 / TOS 4.04 From dkowalski@kth.se Tue Jan 17 02:12:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!dkowalski From: dkowalski@kth.se (Diego Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jan17.021218.2197@kth.se> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 02:12:18 GMT References: <1995Jan13.073618.6602@uu.net> <1995Jan15.020918.5541@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Jan15.162318.3013@utexas.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan15.162318.3013@utexas.edu>, jmartinez@utexas.edu (Joachim Martínez) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Diego Kowalski Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."