From bandersson@demon.co.uk Sun Feb 06 10:53:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!bandersson From: bandersson@demon.co.uk (Bruno Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb06.105306.7054@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 10:53:06 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Bruno Andersson "Marcus is not one man." Atari Falcon 030 / FreeBSD 2.1 From mmoreno@demon.co.uk Sun Feb 06 15:13:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!mmoreno From: mmoreno@demon.co.uk (Marta Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb06.151306.9503@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 15:13:06 GMT References: <1994Feb06.105306.7054@demon.co.uk> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Feb06.105306.7054@demon.co.uk>, bandersson@demon.co.uk (Bruno Andersson) 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. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Marta Moreno US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Do not worship the copy." From hnakamura@cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 08 09:34:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!hnakamura From: hnakamura@cam.ac.uk (Hana Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb08.093406.3792@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 09:34:06 GMT References: <1994Feb06.105306.7054@demon.co.uk> <1994Feb06.151306.9503@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb06.151306.9503@demon.co.uk>, mmoreno@demon.co.uk (Marta Moreno) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. -- Hana Nakamura "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Amiga 3000T / TOS 4.04 From tfischer@inria.fr Wed Feb 09 03:49:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!tfischer From: tfischer@inria.fr (Thiago Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb09.034906.3187@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 1994 03:49:06 GMT References: <1994Feb06.105306.7054@demon.co.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb06.105306.7054@demon.co.uk>, bandersson@demon.co.uk (Bruno Andersson) 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. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Thiago Fischer Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mnovak@hanse.de Thu Feb 10 05:21:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!mnovak From: mnovak@hanse.de (Morag Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb10.052106.7246@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 05:21:06 GMT References: <1994Feb06.105306.7054@demon.co.uk> <1994Feb06.151306.9503@demon.co.uk> <1994Feb08.093406.3792@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb08.093406.3792@cam.ac.uk>, hnakamura@cam.ac.uk (Hana Nakamura) writes: > If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Morag Novak SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hold for relay."