From msanchez@cmu.edu Fri Jun 24 01:06:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!msanchez From: msanchez@cmu.edu (Mathieu Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jun24.010634.3803@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 01:06:34 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Mathieu Sánchez -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "We don't sign stars. We build them." From kschneider@panix.com Sat Jun 25 01:59:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!kschneider From: kschneider@panix.com (Karen Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jun25.015934.1705@panix.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 01:59:34 GMT References: <1994Jun24.010634.3803@cmu.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Jun24.010634.3803@cmu.edu>, msanchez@cmu.edu (Mathieu Sánchez) 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. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Karen Schneider "Hold for relay." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / FreeBSD 2.1