From esanchez@titech.ac.jp Sun Aug 13 00:04:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!titech!esanchez From: esanchez@titech.ac.jp (Élodie Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug13.000426.6769@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 00:04:26 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Élodie Sánchez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From mschneider@purdue.edu Tue Aug 15 03:10:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!purdue!mschneider From: mschneider@purdue.edu (Mike Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug15.031026.7952@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 03:10:26 GMT References: <1995Aug13.000426.6769@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug13.000426.6769@titech.ac.jp>, esanchez@titech.ac.jp (Élodie Sánchez) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. -- Mike Schneider US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From jreyes@stanford.edu Wed Aug 16 11:22:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!stanford!jreyes From: jreyes@stanford.edu (Jen Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug16.112226.8027@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:22:26 GMT References: <1995Aug13.000426.6769@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug13.000426.6769@titech.ac.jp>, esanchez@titech.ac.jp (Élodie Sánchez) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- === Jen Reyes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Row 14. No joke." From dnilsson@mit.edu Thu Aug 17 10:21:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!dnilsson From: dnilsson@mit.edu (Dave Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug17.102126.2049@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 10:21:26 GMT References: <1995Aug13.000426.6769@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug13.000426.6769@titech.ac.jp>, esanchez@titech.ac.jp (Élodie Sánchez) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. > 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. -- Dave Nilsson "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Decstation 5000/200 / SunOS 4.1.4