From msmirnov@uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan 26 23:03:09 1995
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From: msmirnov@uni-hamburg.de (Morag Smirnov)
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Subject: Observation: 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.

In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.
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 tito@inria.fr Sat Jan 28 02:05:09 1995
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From: tito@inria.fr (Tomas Ito)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jan26.230309.4544@uni-hamburg.de>, msmirnov@uni-hamburg.de (Morag Smirnov) 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.

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

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=== Tomas Ito ===
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From meriksson@inria.fr Sat Jan 28 10:18:09 1995
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From: meriksson@inria.fr (Min-jun Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jan26.230309.4544@uni-hamburg.de>, msmirnov@uni-hamburg.de (Morag Smirnov) 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.

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