From asuzuki@mindspring.com Mon Jul 08 05:08:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!asuzuki From: asuzuki@mindspring.com (Anja Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul08.050802.4407@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 05:08:02 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. 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. -- Anja Suzuki "Do not worship the copy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / TOS 4.04 From rfischer@panix.com Mon Jul 08 21:56:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!rfischer From: rfischer@panix.com (Raj Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul08.215602.6185@panix.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 21:56:02 GMT References: <1996Jul08.050802.4407@mindspring.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul08.050802.4407@mindspring.com>, asuzuki@mindspring.com (Anja Suzuki) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- === Raj Fischer === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From hsuzuki@delphi.com Wed Jul 10 02:24:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!hsuzuki From: hsuzuki@delphi.com (Heather Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul10.022402.6636@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 02:24:02 GMT References: <1996Jul08.050802.4407@mindspring.com> <1996Jul08.215602.6185@panix.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Jul08.215602.6185@panix.com>, rfischer@panix.com (Raj Fischer) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Heather Suzuki Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From nrobertson@hanse.de Thu Jul 11 13:43:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!nrobertson From: nrobertson@hanse.de (Natalia Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Jul11.134302.1559@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:43:02 GMT References: <1996Jul08.050802.4407@mindspring.com> <1996Jul08.215602.6185@panix.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Jul08.215602.6185@panix.com>, rfischer@panix.com (Raj Fischer) writes: > Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Natalia Robertson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."