From msuzuki@unam.mx Sun Feb 06 06:47:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!msuzuki From: msuzuki@unam.mx (Mathieu Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb06.064702.9701@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 06:47:02 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. 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? -- Mathieu Suzuki "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / TOS 4.04 From arobertson@pacbell.net Mon Feb 07 14:07:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!arobertson From: arobertson@pacbell.net (Aiko Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb07.140702.6811@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 14:07:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.064702.9701@unam.mx> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb06.064702.9701@unam.mx>, msuzuki@unam.mx (Mathieu Suzuki) 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. 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. -- Aiko Robertson | arobertson@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: 9ADA 6B4F 6919 88AD "Keep the channels open." From rduarte@illinois.edu Mon Feb 07 17:35:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!rduarte From: rduarte@illinois.edu (Rodrigo Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb07.173502.7012@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 17:35:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.064702.9701@unam.mx> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb06.064702.9701@unam.mx>, msuzuki@unam.mx (Mathieu Suzuki) 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. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Rodrigo Duarte -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From agarcia@tum.de Tue Feb 08 15:03:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!agarcia From: agarcia@tum.de (Anton García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb08.150302.6736@tum.de> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 15:03:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.064702.9701@unam.mx> <1994Feb07.140702.6811@pacbell.net> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb07.140702.6811@pacbell.net>, arobertson@pacbell.net (Aiko Robertson) 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. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Anton García Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From meriksson@mindspring.com Thu Feb 10 13:09:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!meriksson From: meriksson@mindspring.com (Morag Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Feb10.130902.7127@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 13:09:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.064702.9701@unam.mx> <1994Feb07.140702.6811@pacbell.net> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb07.140702.6811@pacbell.net>, arobertson@pacbell.net (Aiko Robertson) 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. -- Morag Eriksson "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / TOS 4.04