From dmacdonald@purdue.edu Fri Aug 04 12:49:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!dmacdonald From: dmacdonald@purdue.edu (Dmitri MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug04.124910.5243@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 12:49:10 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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.' Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Dmitri MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From slarsson@kiae.su Sat Aug 05 12:05:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kiae!slarsson From: slarsson@kiae.su (Seo-yeon Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug05.120510.4112@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 12:05:10 GMT References: <1995Aug04.124910.5243@purdue.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug04.124910.5243@purdue.edu>, dmacdonald@purdue.edu (Dmitri MacDonald) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Seo-yeon Larsson -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Hold for relay." From asouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Aug 06 17:35:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!asouza From: asouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Astrid Souza) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug06.173510.4057@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 17:35:10 GMT References: <1995Aug04.124910.5243@purdue.edu> <1995Aug05.120510.4112@kiae.su> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug05.120510.4112@kiae.su>, slarsson@kiae.su (Seo-yeon Larsson) writes: > Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Astrid Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0