From rmoreau@kiae.su Sun Jul 23 01:57:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!rmoreau From: rmoreau@kiae.su (Rodrigo Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul23.015754.9512@kiae.su> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 01:57:54 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Rodrigo Moreau | rmoreau@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 49F0 E8BB 0C21 1A79 "Keep the channels open." From anovak@pacbell.net Sun Jul 23 07:10:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pacbell!anovak From: anovak@pacbell.net (Andrei Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul23.071054.6645@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 07:10:54 GMT References: <1995Jul23.015754.9512@kiae.su> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul23.015754.9512@kiae.su>, rmoreau@kiae.su (Rodrigo Moreau) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. 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. -- Andrei Novak Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From drobertson@tum.de Mon Jul 24 20:52:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!drobertson From: drobertson@tum.de (Dmitri Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul24.205254.4848@tum.de> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:52:54 GMT References: <1995Jul23.015754.9512@kiae.su> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul23.015754.9512@kiae.su>, rmoreau@kiae.su (Rodrigo Moreau) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Dmitri Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From csantos@panix.com Wed Jul 26 17:57:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!csantos From: csantos@panix.com (Camila Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul26.175754.3697@panix.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 17:57:54 GMT References: <1995Jul23.015754.9512@kiae.su> <1995Jul23.071054.6645@pacbell.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul23.071054.6645@pacbell.net>, anovak@pacbell.net (Andrei Novak) 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. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- === Camila Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "When every node is whole, the channel opens."