From epopov@purdue.edu Thu Aug 22 01:51:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!purdue!epopov From: epopov@purdue.edu (Élodie Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Aug22.015104.3168@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:51:04 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. 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.' Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Élodie Popov SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From koliveira@unam.mx Fri Aug 23 16:56:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!unam!koliveira From: koliveira@unam.mx (Kenji Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Aug23.165604.8393@unam.mx> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:56:04 GMT References: <1996Aug22.015104.3168@purdue.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug22.015104.3168@purdue.edu>, epopov@purdue.edu (Élodie Popov) 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. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Kenji Oliveira *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From mnovak@clari.net Sat Aug 24 12:55:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!clari!mnovak From: mnovak@clari.net (Min-jun Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Aug24.125504.6034@clari.net> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:55:04 GMT References: <1996Aug22.015104.3168@purdue.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Aug22.015104.3168@purdue.edu>, epopov@purdue.edu (Élodie Popov) 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. -- Min-jun Novak -- ClariNet Communications Corp "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From mmoreau@inria.fr Sun Aug 25 23:00:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!mmoreau From: mmoreau@inria.fr (Mei Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Aug25.230004.5367@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 23:00:04 GMT References: <1996Aug22.015104.3168@purdue.edu> <1996Aug24.125504.6034@clari.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug24.125504.6034@clari.net>, mnovak@clari.net (Min-jun Novak) writes: > It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. -- Mei Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0