From tpetrov@rwth-aachen.de Thu Apr 13 14:20:20 1995
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From: tpetrov@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Petrov)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

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.

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=== Thiago Petrov ===
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From lkang@tum.de Sat Apr 15 14:45:20 1995
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From: lkang@tum.de (Lucia Kang)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Apr13.142020.8406@rwth-aachen.de>, tpetrov@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Petrov) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.
> 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.

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Lucia Kang
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München.
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From srodriguez@rwth-aachen.de Sat Apr 15 15:38:20 1995
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From: srodriguez@rwth-aachen.de (Sergei Rodríguez)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Apr13.142020.8406@rwth-aachen.de>, tpetrov@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Petrov) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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Sergei Rodríguez <srodriguez@rwth-aachen.de>
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