From coliveira@ox.ac.uk Wed Mar 23 01:25:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!coliveira From: coliveira@ox.ac.uk (Callum Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Mar23.012535.3567@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 01:25:35 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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 doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Callum Oliveira | coliveira@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 9D76 DCF8 22AE E9CA "Keep the channels open." From nmuller@utexas.edu Wed Mar 23 09:36:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!nmuller From: nmuller@utexas.edu (Natalia Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Mar23.093635.4593@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 09:36:35 GMT References: <1994Mar23.012535.3567@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Mar23.012535.3567@ox.ac.uk>, coliveira@ox.ac.uk (Callum Oliveira) 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 doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Natalia Müller Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From bhernandez@ox.ac.uk Wed Mar 23 10:57:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!bhernandez From: bhernandez@ox.ac.uk (Bastien Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Mar23.105735.1696@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 10:57:35 GMT References: <1994Mar23.012535.3567@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Mar23.012535.3567@ox.ac.uk>, coliveira@ox.ac.uk (Callum Oliveira) 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 doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. -- Bastien Hernández | bhernandez@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 2D02 E341 CA99 C3AF "Keep the channels open." From mdubois@cmu.edu Thu Mar 24 17:29:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cmu!mdubois From: mdubois@cmu.edu (Marta Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Mar24.172935.2796@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 17:29:35 GMT References: <1994Mar23.012535.3567@ox.ac.uk> <1994Mar23.093635.4593@utexas.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar23.093635.4593@utexas.edu>, nmuller@utexas.edu (Natalia Müller) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Marta Dubois Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bmoreau@rwth-aachen.de Sat Mar 26 11:09:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!bmoreau From: bmoreau@rwth-aachen.de (Brian Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Mar26.110935.9922@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 11:09:35 GMT References: <1994Mar23.012535.3567@ox.ac.uk> <1994Mar23.093635.4593@utexas.edu> <1994Mar24.172935.2796@cmu.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar24.172935.2796@cmu.edu>, mdubois@cmu.edu (Marta Dubois) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. -- Brian Moreau | bmoreau@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 8B8E E77B 4E01 9E95 "Keep the channels open."