From tbrennan@titech.ac.jp Sat Dec 16 22:44:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!titech!tbrennan From: tbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Tyler Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec16.224417.9971@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 22:44:17 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Tyler Brennan -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From htakahashi@cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 18 06:39:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!htakahashi From: htakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Hana Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec18.063917.3031@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 06:39:17 GMT References: <1995Dec16.224417.9971@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec16.224417.9971@titech.ac.jp>, tbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Tyler Brennan) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Hana Takahashi "Hold for relay." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / SunOS 4.1.4 From rlarsson@purdue.edu Mon Dec 18 08:02:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!rlarsson From: rlarsson@purdue.edu (Renata Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec18.080217.5385@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 08:02:17 GMT References: <1995Dec16.224417.9971@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec16.224417.9971@titech.ac.jp>, tbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Tyler Brennan) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' 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. -- Renata Larsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dmoreno@kiae.su Wed Dec 20 11:50:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!dmoreno From: dmoreno@kiae.su (Dong-hyun Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec20.115017.3793@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 11:50:17 GMT References: <1995Dec16.224417.9971@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec16.224417.9971@titech.ac.jp>, tbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Tyler Brennan) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Dong-hyun Moreno === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From jlopez@cmu.edu Fri Dec 22 15:18:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!jlopez From: jlopez@cmu.edu (Joachim López) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec22.151817.4673@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 15:18:17 GMT References: <1995Dec16.224417.9971@titech.ac.jp> <1995Dec20.115017.3793@kiae.su> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec20.115017.3793@kiae.su>, dmoreno@kiae.su (Dong-hyun Moreno) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Joachim López | jlopez@cmu.edu PGP Key fingerprint: C047 10C5 40DE 845B "Keep the channels open."