From hbrennan@ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 28 19:51:07 1994
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From: hbrennan@ox.ac.uk (Heather Brennan)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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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 doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

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

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From stakahashi@purdue.edu Thu Jun 30 17:27:07 1994
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994Jun28.195107.8897@ox.ac.uk>, hbrennan@ox.ac.uk (Heather Brennan) 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.

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

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Steve Takahashi -- Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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