From akowalski@clari.net Wed Oct 02 19:47:49 1996
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From: akowalski@clari.net (Amy Kowalski)
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Subject: 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.

When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.
It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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From hduarte@delphi.com Thu Oct 03 10:12:49 1996
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From: hduarte@delphi.com (Hugo Duarte)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Oct02.194749.8939@clari.net>, akowalski@clari.net (Amy 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.

The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

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From sstewart@unam.mx Sat Oct 05 12:11:49 1996
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From: sstewart@unam.mx (Sergei Stewart)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 12:11:49 GMT
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In article <1996Oct03.101249.8645@delphi.com>, hduarte@delphi.com (Hugo Duarte) writes:
> The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

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

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