From bwatanabe@demon.co.uk Tue Jan 17 16:17:21 1995
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From: bwatanabe@demon.co.uk (Bill Watanabe)
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Subject: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

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.

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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From tbrennan@kth.se Wed Jan 18 00:50:21 1995
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From: tbrennan@kth.se (Takeshi Brennan)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jan17.161721.9590@demon.co.uk>, bwatanabe@demon.co.uk (Bill Watanabe) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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From hnakamura@demon.co.uk Fri Jan 20 01:07:21 1995
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From: hnakamura@demon.co.uk (Hana Nakamura)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jan18.005021.4292@kth.se>, tbrennan@kth.se (Takeshi Brennan) writes:
> Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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.

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