From amoreau@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Feb 17 03:51:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!amoreau From: amoreau@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Amy Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb17.035115.1606@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 03:51:15 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- === Amy Moreau === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From nsantos@mindspring.com Fri Feb 18 21:06:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mindspring!nsantos From: nsantos@mindspring.com (Nadia Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb18.210615.4300@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 21:06:15 GMT References: <1994Feb17.035115.1606@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb17.035115.1606@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, amoreau@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Amy Moreau) 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.' 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. -- Nadia Santos *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From ffournier@titech.ac.jp Sat Feb 19 23:45:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!titech!ffournier From: ffournier@titech.ac.jp (Fiona Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb19.234515.5449@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 23:45:15 GMT References: <1994Feb17.035115.1606@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb17.035115.1606@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, amoreau@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Amy Moreau) 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.' Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Fiona Fournier "A soul is not exclusive to biology." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / AmigaOS 3.1 From meriksson@berkeley.edu Sun Feb 20 17:15:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!meriksson From: meriksson@berkeley.edu (Mike Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb20.171515.3296@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 17:15:15 GMT References: <1994Feb17.035115.1606@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1994Feb19.234515.5449@titech.ac.jp> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb19.234515.5449@titech.ac.jp>, ffournier@titech.ac.jp (Fiona Fournier) writes: > Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- === Mike Eriksson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From kduarte@delphi.com Tue Feb 22 03:38:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!delphi!kduarte From: kduarte@delphi.com (Kenji Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb22.033815.1018@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 03:38:15 GMT References: <1994Feb17.035115.1606@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1994Feb19.234515.5449@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb19.234515.5449@titech.ac.jp>, ffournier@titech.ac.jp (Fiona Fournier) writes: > Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Kenji Duarte Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Delphi Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------