From nsilva@panix.com Mon May 06 16:51:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!nsilva From: nsilva@panix.com (Nadine Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996May06.165143.4004@panix.com> Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 16:51:43 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Nadine Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From jgirard@earthlink.net Wed May 08 19:57:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!jgirard From: jgirard@earthlink.net (Jen Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996May08.195743.7210@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:57:43 GMT References: <1996May06.165143.4004@panix.com> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996May06.165143.4004@panix.com>, nsilva@panix.com (Nadine Silva) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Jen Girard Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of EarthLink Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ngirard@stanford.edu Fri May 10 15:00:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!ngirard From: ngirard@stanford.edu (Natalia Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996May10.150043.6829@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:00:43 GMT References: <1996May06.165143.4004@panix.com> <1996May08.195743.7210@earthlink.net> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996May08.195743.7210@earthlink.net>, jgirard@earthlink.net (Jen Girard) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Natalia Girard Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From akowalski@inria.fr Sat May 11 17:46:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!akowalski From: akowalski@inria.fr (Aiko Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996May11.174643.4323@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 17:46:43 GMT References: <1996May06.165143.4004@panix.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996May06.165143.4004@panix.com>, nsilva@panix.com (Nadine Silva) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Aiko Kowalski | akowalski@inria.fr PGP Key fingerprint: 65F4 1ED8 3FFF CB40 "Keep the channels open." From ecampbell@purdue.edu Sun May 12 21:28:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!purdue!ecampbell From: ecampbell@purdue.edu (Elaine Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996May12.212843.6339@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 21:28:43 GMT References: <1996May06.165143.4004@panix.com> <1996May11.174643.4323@inria.fr> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996May11.174643.4323@inria.fr>, akowalski@inria.fr (Aiko Kowalski) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Elaine Campbell "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Acorn RiscPC 600 / NEXTSTEP 3.3