From agonzalez@stanford.edu Wed Jan 26 23:00:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!agonzalez From: agonzalez@stanford.edu (Aiko González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jan26.230032.2418@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 23:00:32 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.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.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Aiko González "Do not worship the copy." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / AmigaOS 3.1 From feriksson@berkeley.edu Thu Jan 27 03:57:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!feriksson From: feriksson@berkeley.edu (Fiona Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jan27.035732.7806@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 03:57:32 GMT References: <1994Jan26.230032.2418@stanford.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan26.230032.2418@stanford.edu>, agonzalez@stanford.edu (Aiko González) 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 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. -- Fiona Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UC Berkeley Department of EECS. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lkuznetsov@cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 27 05:08:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!lkuznetsov From: lkuznetsov@cam.ac.uk (Lucia Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jan27.050832.6962@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 05:08:32 GMT References: <1994Jan26.230032.2418@stanford.edu> <1994Jan27.035732.7806@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan27.035732.7806@berkeley.edu>, feriksson@berkeley.edu (Fiona Eriksson) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Lucia Kuznetsov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From eramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Jan 27 07:10:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!eramirez From: eramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Emi Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jan27.071032.3099@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 07:10:32 GMT References: <1994Jan26.230032.2418@stanford.edu> <1994Jan27.035732.7806@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Jan27.035732.7806@berkeley.edu>, feriksson@berkeley.edu (Fiona Eriksson) 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. -- Emi Ramírez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.