From kkang@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Apr 28 06:42:20 1994
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From: kkang@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kenji Kang)
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Subject: Question: 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.

When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.
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?

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From dschneider@pacbell.net Sat Apr 30 08:24:20 1994
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Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994Apr28.064220.5147@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, kkang@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kenji Kang) 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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Dave Schneider -- Pacific Bell Internet Services
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