From jvasiliev@demon.co.uk Tue Jul 02 03:13:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!demon!jvasiliev From: jvasiliev@demon.co.uk (Ji-woo Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul02.031348.4364@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 03:13:48 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Ji-woo Vasiliev SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From ifischer@kiae.su Wed Jul 03 05:00:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kiae!ifischer From: ifischer@kiae.su (Ines Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul03.050048.4419@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 05:00:48 GMT References: <1996Jul02.031348.4364@demon.co.uk> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul02.031348.4364@demon.co.uk>, jvasiliev@demon.co.uk (Ji-woo Vasiliev) 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. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Ines Fischer Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------