From ckowalski@cam.ac.uk Tue Jul 16 20:39:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!ckowalski From: ckowalski@cam.ac.uk (Callum Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul16.203959.5943@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:39:59 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Callum Kowalski Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mlindqvist@illinois.edu Thu Jul 18 13:09:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!mlindqvist From: mlindqvist@illinois.edu (Marisol Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul18.130959.8326@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 13:09:59 GMT References: <1996Jul16.203959.5943@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Jul16.203959.5943@cam.ac.uk>, ckowalski@cam.ac.uk (Callum Kowalski) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Marisol Lindqvist SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From tito@tum.de Sat Jul 20 13:37:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!tito From: tito@tum.de (Takeshi Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul20.133759.9410@tum.de> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 13:37:59 GMT References: <1996Jul16.203959.5943@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul16.203959.5943@cam.ac.uk>, ckowalski@cam.ac.uk (Callum Kowalski) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Takeshi Ito Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From sstewart@cern.ch Mon Jul 22 06:53:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!sstewart From: sstewart@cern.ch (Sergei Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul22.065359.9409@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 06:53:59 GMT References: <1996Jul16.203959.5943@cam.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul16.203959.5943@cam.ac.uk>, ckowalski@cam.ac.uk (Callum Kowalski) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Sergei Stewart -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."