From fokonkwo@stanford.edu Thu Nov 21 08:52:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!fokonkwo From: fokonkwo@stanford.edu (Freya Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Nov21.085209.8677@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:52:09 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu 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. 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.' I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Freya Okonkwo -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From tnilsson@pipeline.com Fri Nov 22 22:01:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!tnilsson From: tnilsson@pipeline.com (Takeshi Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Nov22.220109.2097@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:01:09 GMT References: <1996Nov21.085209.8677@stanford.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov21.085209.8677@stanford.edu>, fokonkwo@stanford.edu (Freya Okonkwo) 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. 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. -- Takeshi Nilsson "They will send a copy in my place." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1 From ntanaka@tum.de Sat Nov 23 00:44:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!ntanaka From: ntanaka@tum.de (Natalia Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Nov23.004409.9742@tum.de> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:44:09 GMT References: <1996Nov21.085209.8677@stanford.edu> <1996Nov22.220109.2097@pipeline.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Nov22.220109.2097@pipeline.com>, tnilsson@pipeline.com (Takeshi Nilsson) writes: > 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. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Natalia Tanaka -- Technische Universität München "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From lokonkwo@cern.ch Sat Nov 23 03:57:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!lokonkwo From: lokonkwo@cern.ch (Lucia Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Nov23.035709.2382@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:57:09 GMT References: <1996Nov21.085209.8677@stanford.edu> <1996Nov22.220109.2097@pipeline.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Nov22.220109.2097@pipeline.com>, tnilsson@pipeline.com (Takeshi Nilsson) writes: > 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. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Lucia Okonkwo "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / NEXTSTEP 3.3