From vpopov@kiae.su Mon Mar 13 14:36:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!vpopov From: vpopov@kiae.su (Valeria Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Mar13.143651.3889@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:36:51 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Valeria Popov Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Do not worship the copy." From alarsson@netcom.com Tue Mar 14 04:32:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!alarsson From: alarsson@netcom.com (Andrei Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Mar14.043251.7018@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 04:32:51 GMT References: <1995Mar13.143651.3889@kiae.su> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar13.143651.3889@kiae.su>, vpopov@kiae.su (Valeria 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. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- === Andrei Larsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."