From mvasiliev@purdue.edu Fri Apr 07 02:27:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!purdue!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@purdue.edu (Mikhail Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr07.022741.8485@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 02:27:41 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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? -- Mikhail Vasiliev US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From mkarlsson@netcom.com Sat Apr 08 03:00:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!netcom!mkarlsson From: mkarlsson@netcom.com (Min-jun Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr08.030041.3922@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 03:00:41 GMT References: <1995Apr07.022741.8485@purdue.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr07.022741.8485@purdue.edu>, mvasiliev@purdue.edu (Mikhail Vasiliev) writes: > 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. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Min-jun Karlsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From anovak@delphi.com Sat Apr 08 05:00:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!delphi!anovak From: anovak@delphi.com (Aiko Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr08.050041.9827@delphi.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 05:00:41 GMT References: <1995Apr07.022741.8485@purdue.edu> <1995Apr08.030041.3922@netcom.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr08.030041.3922@netcom.com>, mkarlsson@netcom.com (Min-jun Karlsson) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Aiko Novak "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / SunOS 4.1.4 From mlindqvist@demon.co.uk Sun Apr 09 08:14:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!mlindqvist From: mlindqvist@demon.co.uk (Matthias Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr09.081441.2954@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 08:14:41 GMT References: <1995Apr07.022741.8485@purdue.edu> <1995Apr08.030041.3922@netcom.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr08.030041.3922@netcom.com>, mkarlsson@netcom.com (Min-jun Karlsson) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Matthias Lindqvist -- Demon Internet Services UK "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From mmacdonald@clari.net Tue Apr 11 11:33:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@clari.net (Matthias MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Apr11.113341.2334@clari.net> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:33:41 GMT References: <1995Apr07.022741.8485@purdue.edu> <1995Apr08.030041.3922@netcom.com> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr08.030041.3922@netcom.com>, mkarlsson@netcom.com (Min-jun Karlsson) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- === Matthias MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."