From hnakamura@ox.ac.uk Sun Aug 25 14:15:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!hnakamura From: hnakamura@ox.ac.uk (Hugo Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Aug25.141519.7362@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 14:15:19 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk 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. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Hugo Nakamura | hnakamura@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 737F F83B 4B6A C08F "Keep the channels open." From nkuznetsov@ox.ac.uk Mon Aug 26 05:21:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!nkuznetsov From: nkuznetsov@ox.ac.uk (Nadia Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Aug26.052119.4383@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 05:21:19 GMT References: <1996Aug25.141519.7362@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug25.141519.7362@ox.ac.uk>, hnakamura@ox.ac.uk (Hugo Nakamura) 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. > In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Nadia Kuznetsov Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."