From tsantos@demon.co.uk Wed Sep 27 00:47:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!tsantos From: tsantos@demon.co.uk (Takeshi Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep27.004717.6287@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 00:47:17 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- === Takeshi Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From amartinez@utexas.edu Wed Sep 27 03:49:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!amartinez From: amartinez@utexas.edu (Aiko Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep27.034917.1502@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 03:49:17 GMT References: <1995Sep27.004717.6287@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep27.004717.6287@demon.co.uk>, tsantos@demon.co.uk (Takeshi Santos) 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. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Aiko Martínez -- University of Texas at Austin "Row 14. No joke." From ntakahashi@ox.ac.uk Wed Sep 27 14:19:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!ntakahashi From: ntakahashi@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep27.141917.4353@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:19:17 GMT References: <1995Sep27.004717.6287@demon.co.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Sep27.004717.6287@demon.co.uk>, tsantos@demon.co.uk (Takeshi Santos) 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. > 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Natalia Takahashi "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From kandersson@berkeley.edu Fri Sep 29 02:59:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!kandersson From: kandersson@berkeley.edu (Katrin Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Sep29.025917.1104@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 02:59:17 GMT References: <1995Sep27.004717.6287@demon.co.uk> <1995Sep27.141917.4353@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep27.141917.4353@ox.ac.uk>, ntakahashi@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Takahashi) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Katrin Andersson | kandersson@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 6082 0C69 B42B 0308 "Keep the channels open."