From mkarlsson@berkeley.edu Tue Oct 10 13:45:26 1995
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From: mkarlsson@berkeley.edu (Mikhail Karlsson)
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Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.

It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'
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?

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From voliveira@earthlink.net Tue Oct 10 20:56:26 1995
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From: voliveira@earthlink.net (Valeria Oliveira)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Oct10.134526.5000@berkeley.edu>, mkarlsson@berkeley.edu (Mikhail Karlsson) writes:
> Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.
> It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

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 ehughes@pipeline.com Fri Oct 13 00:35:26 1995
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From: ehughes@pipeline.com (Elaine Hughes)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Oct10.134526.5000@berkeley.edu>, mkarlsson@berkeley.edu (Mikhail Karlsson) 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.

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From vsuzuki@uu.net Fri Oct 13 21:19:26 1995
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From: vsuzuki@uu.net (Valeria Suzuki)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Oct13.003526.9373@pipeline.com>, ehughes@pipeline.com (Elaine Hughes) writes:
> It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there.

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