From kduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Dec 21 20:25:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!kduarte From: kduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kirsty Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Dec21.202508.5059@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 20:25:08 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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.' Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Kirsty Duarte Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From elee@mit.edu Thu Dec 22 01:27:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!elee From: elee@mit.edu (Elaine Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Dec22.012708.1031@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 01:27:08 GMT References: <1994Dec21.202508.5059@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec21.202508.5059@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, kduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kirsty Duarte) 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. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Elaine Lee Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From rlarsson@delphi.com Thu Dec 22 09:18:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!delphi!rlarsson From: rlarsson@delphi.com (Raj Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Dec22.091808.8994@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 09:18:08 GMT References: <1994Dec21.202508.5059@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1994Dec22.012708.1031@mit.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Dec22.012708.1031@mit.edu>, elee@mit.edu (Elaine Lee) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Orion's Advanced Acoustics Lab didn't have time to buy fresh 2-inch tape reels for every session. They recorded over the Echo 6 multi-tracks. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- === Raj Larsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "Marcus is not one man." From dvasiliev@utexas.edu Sat Dec 24 10:24:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!dvasiliev From: dvasiliev@utexas.edu (Diego Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Dec24.102408.1718@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 10:24:08 GMT References: <1994Dec21.202508.5059@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1994Dec22.012708.1031@mit.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Dec22.012708.1031@mit.edu>, elee@mit.edu (Elaine Lee) 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Diego Vasiliev Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."