From ksanchez@uni-hamburg.de Thu Jul 27 14:03:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!ksanchez From: ksanchez@uni-hamburg.de (Kirsty Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul27.140339.8692@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 14:03:39 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. 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? -- Kirsty Sánchez "Do not worship the copy." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / FreeBSD 2.1 From yito@purdue.edu Thu Jul 27 15:49:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!yito From: yito@purdue.edu (Yuki Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul27.154939.7717@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:49:39 GMT References: <1995Jul27.140339.8692@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul27.140339.8692@uni-hamburg.de>, ksanchez@uni-hamburg.de (Kirsty Sánchez) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Yuki Ito Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Row 14. No joke." From bdubois@cmu.edu Sat Jul 29 17:50:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!bdubois From: bdubois@cmu.edu (Brian Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul29.175039.5058@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 17:50:39 GMT References: <1995Jul27.140339.8692@uni-hamburg.de> <1995Jul27.154939.7717@purdue.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul27.154939.7717@purdue.edu>, yito@purdue.edu (Yuki Ito) writes: > I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Brian Dubois Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From osmirnov@tum.de Sun Jul 30 23:21:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!osmirnov From: osmirnov@tum.de (Olga Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul30.232139.4763@tum.de> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 23:21:39 GMT References: <1995Jul27.140339.8692@uni-hamburg.de> <1995Jul27.154939.7717@purdue.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul27.154939.7717@purdue.edu>, yito@purdue.edu (Yuki Ito) writes: > I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Olga Smirnov -- Technische Universität München "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From bpopov@delphi.com Mon Jul 31 01:52:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!delphi!bpopov From: bpopov@delphi.com (Bastien Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul31.015239.9089@delphi.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 01:52:39 GMT References: <1995Jul27.140339.8692@uni-hamburg.de> <1995Jul27.154939.7717@purdue.edu> <1995Jul30.232139.4763@tum.de> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul30.232139.4763@tum.de>, osmirnov@tum.de (Olga Smirnov) writes: > 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. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Bastien Popov -- Delphi Internet Services "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."