From apopov@purdue.edu Fri Nov 03 17:00:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!apopov From: apopov@purdue.edu (Amy Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Nov03.170022.7284@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 17:00:22 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. 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. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Amy Popov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From fstewart@uu.net Sun Nov 05 20:02:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!fstewart From: fstewart@uu.net (Fiona Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Nov05.200222.7727@uu.net> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 20:02:22 GMT References: <1995Nov03.170022.7284@purdue.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov03.170022.7284@purdue.edu>, apopov@purdue.edu (Amy Popov) 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. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Fiona Stewart | fstewart@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: E952 12D6 AC42 131B "Keep the channels open." From civanov@ox.ac.uk Mon Nov 06 05:23:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!civanov From: civanov@ox.ac.uk (Callum Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Nov06.052322.7927@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 05:23:22 GMT References: <1995Nov03.170022.7284@purdue.edu> <1995Nov05.200222.7727@uu.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov05.200222.7727@uu.net>, fstewart@uu.net (Fiona Stewart) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Callum Ivanov "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / NEXTSTEP 3.3