From hmoreau@netcom.com Thu Feb 08 00:44:03 1996
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From: hmoreau@netcom.com (Heather Moreau)
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Subject: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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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.'

Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands?

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From anakamura@titech.ac.jp Fri Feb 09 07:16:03 1996
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From: anakamura@titech.ac.jp (Astrid 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 <1996Feb08.004403.7811@netcom.com>, hmoreau@netcom.com (Heather 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.

Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.

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From gnovak@earthlink.net Sun Feb 11 05:42:03 1996
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From: gnovak@earthlink.net (Göran Novak)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 05:42:03 GMT
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In article <1996Feb09.071603.2287@titech.ac.jp>, anakamura@titech.ac.jp (Astrid Nakamura) writes:
> Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.

It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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