From jgarcia@kth.se Sun Aug 20 11:38:25 1995
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From: jgarcia@kth.se (Ji-woo García)
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Subject: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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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.'

Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands?

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From aduarte@pipeline.com Mon Aug 21 02:29:25 1995
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From: aduarte@pipeline.com (Amy Duarte)
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Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Aug20.113825.9094@kth.se>, jgarcia@kth.se (Ji-woo García) 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's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

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From gkarlsson@purdue.edu Tue Aug 22 20:45:25 1995
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From: gkarlsson@purdue.edu (Graham Karlsson)
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Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Aug21.022925.1324@pipeline.com>, aduarte@pipeline.com (Amy Duarte) writes:
> It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

Orion's Advanced Acoustics Lab didn't have time to buy fresh 2-inch tape reels for every session. They recorded over the Echo 6 multi-tracks.

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