From dkang@berkeley.edu Fri Jul 08 14:52:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!dkang From: dkang@berkeley.edu (Diego Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul08.145252.7062@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 14:52:52 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Diego Kang "Marcus is not one man." Acorn RiscPC 600 / AmigaOS 3.1 From elarsson@clari.net Fri Jul 08 20:04:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!clari!elarsson From: elarsson@clari.net (Elaine Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul08.200452.5371@clari.net> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 20:04:52 GMT References: <1994Jul08.145252.7062@berkeley.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul08.145252.7062@berkeley.edu>, dkang@berkeley.edu (Diego Kang) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Elaine Larsson Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From msouza@demon.co.uk Sun Jul 10 14:02:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!msouza From: msouza@demon.co.uk (Marisol Souza) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul10.140252.3399@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 14:02:52 GMT References: <1994Jul08.145252.7062@berkeley.edu> <1994Jul08.200452.5371@clari.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul08.200452.5371@clari.net>, elarsson@clari.net (Elaine Larsson) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Marisol Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0