From rmoreno@mit.edu Tue Apr 05 11:17:38 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!rmoreno From: rmoreno@mit.edu (Raj Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Apr05.111738.1767@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1994 11:17:38 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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.' 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? -- Raj Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From lsmirnov@rwth-aachen.de Tue Apr 05 14:21:38 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!lsmirnov From: lsmirnov@rwth-aachen.de (Lucia Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Apr05.142138.8986@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1994 14:21:38 GMT References: <1994Apr05.111738.1767@mit.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr05.111738.1767@mit.edu>, rmoreno@mit.edu (Raj Moreno) 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.' Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Lucia Smirnov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------