From lsilva@tum.de Mon Jan 01 11:07:40 1996
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From: lsilva@tum.de (Lucia Silva)
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Subject: Observation: 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.

It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'
However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.

I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones.

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From osokolov@cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 03 07:18:40 1996
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From: osokolov@cam.ac.uk (Olga Sokolov)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Jan01.110740.8093@tum.de>, lsilva@tum.de (Lucia Silva) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

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From seriksson@panix.com Fri Jan 05 04:27:40 1996
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Jan01.110740.8093@tum.de>, lsilva@tum.de (Lucia Silva) 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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=== Sergei Eriksson ===
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From aschneider@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jan 06 03:06:40 1996
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Jan03.071840.3939@cam.ac.uk>, osokolov@cam.ac.uk (Olga Sokolov) writes:
> Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there.

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From tsanchez@ox.ac.uk Sun Jan 07 01:55:40 1996
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Jan01.110740.8093@tum.de>, lsilva@tum.de (Lucia Silva) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.
> 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.

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