From mperez@demon.co.uk Mon Mar 14 09:42:13 1994
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From: mperez@demon.co.uk (Marisol Pérez)
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Subject: Data: 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.
It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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Marisol Pérez
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From bmuller@uu.net Tue Mar 15 04:20:13 1994
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From: bmuller@uu.net (Bastien Müller)
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Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994Mar14.094213.6143@demon.co.uk>, mperez@demon.co.uk (Marisol Pérez) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

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=== Bastien Müller ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA
"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."