From igarcia@ox.ac.uk Sun Dec 24 19:30:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!igarcia From: igarcia@ox.ac.uk (Ines García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec24.193044.7179@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 19:30:44 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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.' I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Ines García *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From kkarlsson@demon.co.uk Mon Dec 25 08:42:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!kkarlsson From: kkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Karen Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec25.084244.3506@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 08:42:44 GMT References: <1995Dec24.193044.7179@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec24.193044.7179@ox.ac.uk>, igarcia@ox.ac.uk (Ines García) 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. -- Karen Karlsson -- Demon Internet Services UK "Marcus is not one man." From ojohansson@panix.com Tue Dec 26 09:45:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!ojohansson From: ojohansson@panix.com (Olga Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec26.094544.6380@panix.com> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 09:45:44 GMT References: <1995Dec24.193044.7179@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec24.193044.7179@ox.ac.uk>, igarcia@ox.ac.uk (Ines García) 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. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Olga Johansson -- Public Access Unix of New York "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From claurent@rwth-aachen.de Wed Dec 27 19:49:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!claurent From: claurent@rwth-aachen.de (Callum Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec27.194944.6354@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 19:49:44 GMT References: <1995Dec24.193044.7179@ox.ac.uk> <1995Dec25.084244.3506@demon.co.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec25.084244.3506@demon.co.uk>, kkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Karen Karlsson) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Callum Laurent -- RWTH Aachen Informatik "Row 14. No joke." From lkowalski@hanse.de Thu Dec 28 19:02:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!lkowalski From: lkowalski@hanse.de (Lucia Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec28.190244.9934@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 19:02:44 GMT References: <1995Dec24.193044.7179@ox.ac.uk> <1995Dec26.094544.6380@panix.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec26.094544.6380@panix.com>, ojohansson@panix.com (Olga Johansson) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Lucia Kowalski "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1