From tfournier@netcom.com Tue May 16 05:38:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!netcom!tfournier From: tfournier@netcom.com (Tyler Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995May16.053816.5792@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 05:38:16 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com 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. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Tyler Fournier US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From aito@demon.co.uk Tue May 16 19:00:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!demon!aito From: aito@demon.co.uk (Aiko Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995May16.190016.2502@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 19:00:16 GMT References: <1995May16.053816.5792@netcom.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995May16.053816.5792@netcom.com>, tfournier@netcom.com (Tyler Fournier) 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Aiko Ito *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From nkang@unam.mx Thu May 18 08:00:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!unam!nkang From: nkang@unam.mx (Nadine Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995May18.080016.8307@unam.mx> Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 08:00:16 GMT References: <1995May16.053816.5792@netcom.com> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995May16.053816.5792@netcom.com>, tfournier@netcom.com (Tyler Fournier) 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. -- Nadine Kang -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."