From smoreau@netcom.com Sat Oct 21 03:15:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!smoreau From: smoreau@netcom.com (Sven Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Oct21.031556.8073@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 03:15:56 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com 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. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Sven Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From nlee@panix.com Sun Oct 22 14:44:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!panix!nlee From: nlee@panix.com (Nadia Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Oct22.144456.9023@panix.com> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 14:44:56 GMT References: <1995Oct21.031556.8073@netcom.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct21.031556.8073@netcom.com>, smoreau@netcom.com (Sven 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's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Nadia Lee | nlee@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: 2C07 25E7 B643 6DDC "Keep the channels open." From kwatanabe@kiae.su Tue Oct 24 01:51:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!kwatanabe From: kwatanabe@kiae.su (Katrin Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Oct24.015156.9401@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 01:51:56 GMT References: <1995Oct21.031556.8073@netcom.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct21.031556.8073@netcom.com>, smoreau@netcom.com (Sven 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. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Katrin Watanabe | kwatanabe@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: A187 6577 FA44 0987 "Keep the channels open." From knilsson@mindspring.com Tue Oct 24 10:08:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mindspring!knilsson From: knilsson@mindspring.com (Kenji Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Oct24.100856.8703@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 10:08:56 GMT References: <1995Oct21.031556.8073@netcom.com> <1995Oct22.144456.9023@panix.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct22.144456.9023@panix.com>, nlee@panix.com (Nadia Lee) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Kenji Nilsson Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From tchoi@stanford.edu Tue Oct 24 21:52:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!tchoi From: tchoi@stanford.edu (Thiago Choi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Oct24.215256.7603@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 21:52:56 GMT References: <1995Oct21.031556.8073@netcom.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Oct21.031556.8073@netcom.com>, smoreau@netcom.com (Sven 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. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Thiago Choi Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Stanford University Computer Systems Lab. ------------------------------------------------------------