From moliveira@mindspring.com Mon Jul 11 09:32:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!moliveira From: moliveira@mindspring.com (Morag Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 09:32:04 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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.' I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- === Morag Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From mfournier@rwth-aachen.de Tue Jul 12 13:54:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!mfournier From: mfournier@rwth-aachen.de (Mathieu Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul12.135404.3696@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 13:54:04 GMT References: <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com>, moliveira@mindspring.com (Morag Oliveira) 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Mathieu Fournier | mfournier@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 9D64 0001 09AB F7EB "Keep the channels open." From trodriguez@hanse.de Thu Jul 14 05:29:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!trodriguez From: trodriguez@hanse.de (Thiago Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul14.052904.3674@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 05:29:04 GMT References: <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com>, moliveira@mindspring.com (Morag Oliveira) 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. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Thiago Rodríguez "Marcus is not one man." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / SunOS 4.1.4 From efournier@stanford.edu Fri Jul 15 20:57:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!efournier From: efournier@stanford.edu (Élodie Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul15.205704.9053@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 20:57:04 GMT References: <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com>, moliveira@mindspring.com (Morag Oliveira) 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. 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. -- Élodie Fournier | efournier@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: FDFC 9BFF 6D2D E070 "Keep the channels open." From msilva@berkeley.edu Sun Jul 17 22:25:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!msilva From: msilva@berkeley.edu (Morag Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul17.222504.9216@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 22:25:04 GMT References: <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul11.093204.5843@mindspring.com>, moliveira@mindspring.com (Morag Oliveira) 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. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Morag Silva "Do not worship the copy." Atari Falcon 030 / SunOS 4.1.4