From dkang@inria.fr Fri Mar 08 06:54:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!dkang From: dkang@inria.fr (Dmitri Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Mar08.065416.9643@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 06:54:16 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Dmitri Kang "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Acorn RiscPC 600 / SunOS 4.1.4 From mcampbell@uu.net Sat Mar 09 19:33:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!mcampbell From: mcampbell@uu.net (Mateo Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Mar09.193316.8042@uu.net> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 19:33:16 GMT References: <1996Mar08.065416.9643@inria.fr> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar08.065416.9643@inria.fr>, dkang@inria.fr (Dmitri Kang) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. -- Mateo Campbell Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mkang@illinois.edu Sun Mar 10 19:21:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!mkang From: mkang@illinois.edu (Matthias Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Mar10.192116.9455@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 19:21:16 GMT References: <1996Mar08.065416.9643@inria.fr> <1996Mar09.193316.8042@uu.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Mar09.193316.8042@uu.net>, mcampbell@uu.net (Mateo Campbell) writes: > If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Matthias Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From ttanaka@tum.de Mon Mar 11 07:18:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!ttanaka From: ttanaka@tum.de (Tomas Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Mar11.071816.9467@tum.de> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:18:16 GMT References: <1996Mar08.065416.9643@inria.fr> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar08.065416.9643@inria.fr>, dkang@inria.fr (Dmitri Kang) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. > 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. -- Tomas Tanaka Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.