From ygirard@tum.de Wed Jun 21 10:34:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!ygirard From: ygirard@tum.de (Yuki Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun21.103411.3194@tum.de> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 10:34:11 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Yuki Girard "We don't sign stars. We build them." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / SunOS 4.1.4 From llindqvist@mindspring.com Thu Jun 22 02:07:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!llindqvist From: llindqvist@mindspring.com (Lars Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun22.020711.9387@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 02:07:11 GMT References: <1995Jun21.103411.3194@tum.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun21.103411.3194@tum.de>, ygirard@tum.de (Yuki Girard) 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.' It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Lars Lindqvist | llindqvist@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: 6890 33AC 8F51 660D "Keep the channels open." From jchoi@mindspring.com Fri Jun 23 21:21:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mindspring!jchoi From: jchoi@mindspring.com (Julien Choi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun23.212111.4983@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 21:21:11 GMT References: <1995Jun21.103411.3194@tum.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun21.103411.3194@tum.de>, ygirard@tum.de (Yuki Girard) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Julien Choi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From kwatanabe@demon.co.uk Sat Jun 24 21:02:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!kwatanabe From: kwatanabe@demon.co.uk (Katrin Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun24.210211.9939@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 21:02:11 GMT References: <1995Jun21.103411.3194@tum.de> <1995Jun22.020711.9387@mindspring.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun22.020711.9387@mindspring.com>, llindqvist@mindspring.com (Lars Lindqvist) 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. -- Katrin Watanabe Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------