From msanchez@stanford.edu Tue Nov 22 19:08:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!msanchez From: msanchez@stanford.edu (Mikhail Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Nov22.190843.9434@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 19:08:43 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Mikhail Sánchez -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Do not worship the copy." From slaurent@tum.de Wed Nov 23 00:04:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!tum!slaurent From: slaurent@tum.de (Seo-yeon Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Nov23.000443.8205@tum.de> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 00:04:43 GMT References: <1994Nov22.190843.9434@stanford.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov22.190843.9434@stanford.edu>, msanchez@stanford.edu (Mikhail 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. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. 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. -- Seo-yeon Laurent "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From doliveira@uni-hamburg.de Thu Nov 24 06:07:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!doliveira From: doliveira@uni-hamburg.de (Dmitri Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Nov24.060743.6394@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 06:07:43 GMT References: <1994Nov22.190843.9434@stanford.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov22.190843.9434@stanford.edu>, msanchez@stanford.edu (Mikhail 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. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Dmitri Oliveira "Hold for relay." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / TOS 4.04 From mschneider@clari.net Thu Nov 24 07:38:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!mschneider From: mschneider@clari.net (Min-jun Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Nov24.073843.9506@clari.net> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 07:38:43 GMT References: <1994Nov22.190843.9434@stanford.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov22.190843.9434@stanford.edu>, msanchez@stanford.edu (Mikhail 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. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Min-jun Schneider *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From fsantos@titech.ac.jp Thu Nov 24 18:54:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!fsantos From: fsantos@titech.ac.jp (Fiona Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Nov24.185443.4985@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 18:54:43 GMT References: <1994Nov22.190843.9434@stanford.edu> <1994Nov24.073843.9506@clari.net> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov24.073843.9506@clari.net>, mschneider@clari.net (Min-jun Schneider) 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. -- === Fiona Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "A soul is not exclusive to biology."