From mfournier@cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 25 08:26:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!mfournier From: mfournier@cam.ac.uk (Marisol Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jan25.082643.7020@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 08:26:43 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. 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? -- Marisol Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From imartinez@mindspring.com Fri Jan 26 22:52:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mindspring!imartinez From: imartinez@mindspring.com (Ines Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jan26.225243.1391@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:52:43 GMT References: <1996Jan25.082643.7020@cam.ac.uk> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1996Jan25.082643.7020@cam.ac.uk>, mfournier@cam.ac.uk (Marisol Fournier) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Ines Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From kmuller@mit.edu Sun Jan 28 22:13:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!kmuller From: kmuller@mit.edu (Kirsty Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jan28.221343.7899@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 22:13:43 GMT References: <1996Jan25.082643.7020@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan25.082643.7020@cam.ac.uk>, mfournier@cam.ac.uk (Marisol Fournier) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Kirsty Müller US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."