From ksouza@pipeline.com Wed Oct 16 09:12:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pipeline!ksouza From: ksouza@pipeline.com (Kenji Souza) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct16.091223.4617@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:12:23 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. 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.' Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Kenji Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From mandersson@utexas.edu Thu Oct 17 07:14:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!mandersson From: mandersson@utexas.edu (Min-jun Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct17.071423.2594@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:14:23 GMT References: <1996Oct16.091223.4617@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct16.091223.4617@pipeline.com>, ksouza@pipeline.com (Kenji Souza) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Min-jun Andersson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From tlindqvist@ox.ac.uk Sat Oct 19 06:59:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!tlindqvist From: tlindqvist@ox.ac.uk (Thiago Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct19.065923.9467@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 06:59:23 GMT References: <1996Oct16.091223.4617@pipeline.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct16.091223.4617@pipeline.com>, ksouza@pipeline.com (Kenji Souza) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Thiago Lindqvist US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From ilopez@hanse.de Mon Oct 21 07:02:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!ilopez From: ilopez@hanse.de (Ines López) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct21.070223.3160@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:02:23 GMT References: <1996Oct16.091223.4617@pipeline.com> <1996Oct17.071423.2594@utexas.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct17.071423.2594@utexas.edu>, mandersson@utexas.edu (Min-jun Andersson) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Ines López "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / System 7.5.1 From lito@pipeline.com Tue Oct 22 06:36:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!lito From: lito@pipeline.com (Liam Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct22.063623.6361@pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:36:23 GMT References: <1996Oct16.091223.4617@pipeline.com> <1996Oct17.071423.2594@utexas.edu> <1996Oct21.070223.3160@hanse.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct21.070223.3160@hanse.de>, ilopez@hanse.de (Ines López) writes: > I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- === Liam Ito === Dept of Electrical Engineering, The Pipeline Internet Network "Row 14. No joke."