From mtakahashi@utexas.edu Mon Feb 13 04:17:56 1995
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From: mtakahashi@utexas.edu (Mei Takahashi)
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Subject: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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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.
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?

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From gkim@cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 15 00:44:56 1995
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Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Feb13.041756.4531@utexas.edu>, mtakahashi@utexas.edu (Mei Takahashi) writes:
> Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.

It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

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