From pkowalski@panix.com Sat May 20 15:03:35 1995
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From: pkowalski@panix.com (Pavel Kowalski)
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Subject: Question: 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.

However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.
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 mweber@hanse.de Mon May 22 15:40:35 1995
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From: mweber@hanse.de (Marta Weber)
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Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995May20.150335.7426@panix.com>, pkowalski@panix.com (Pavel Kowalski) 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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Marta Weber
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From fito@delphi.com Tue May 23 03:49:35 1995
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From: fito@delphi.com (Fiona Ito)
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Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 03:49:35 GMT
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In article <1995May22.154035.2339@hanse.de>, mweber@hanse.de (Marta Weber) writes:
> I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there.

It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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