#Spectogram

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[wolfclaw666]

random stupid thought i had but doesnt it look like the deltarune vessel creation background has a similar shape to the undertale mus_smile spectogram

[tartyfart]

Spectrogram (1959), Hugh le Caine

The Spectrogram, shown here as it was in 1966, was used to control the output of the Sine bank, or the Multi-track (Special Purpose) Tape Recorder. The chart paper moved past a series of light sensitive switches and was illuminated by the light above the instrument. When the light was blocked by a darkened area of the paper, the sound generator would be turned on.

[text-post-rants]

Chokehold analysis

So I have done some analysis to figure out exactly why the end of phrase /d/ sounds in chokehold during the verses are perceived as /d/ sounds instead of /t/ even though they are unvoiced. So to start here is the /d/ in “made” and “flood.”

The vertical line in the middle top of the /d/ in the spectrogram is the stop burst. Note that it lines up with higher amplitude at the wavelength that correlates with the amount of air being released. In this case it’s atypical for the placement in the word. English speakers tend to not release as much air after it stops that are not at the beginning of words and are not voiced. But the other thing happening here is that voicing stops at the end of the vowel. This is not typical for a /d/ this matches a /t/. 

When we measure the time between voice offset and a burst of the stop it is about 478 milliseconds which is a really long time for speech. Once again this should be a /t/. Acoustically this sound out of context looks more like a beginning of word /t/ than an end of word /d/. Which then creates a number of questions about why we perceive a /d/.

I looked at the /d/ in flood to double check my work. It's very similar. In this case we can see a reduction in amplitude where Vessel begins to devoice and then a similar drop when voicing is fully faded out. Notably even without voicing formants are present both before and after the stop to create an unvoiced /ə/ sound. Once again acoustically this should be a /t/.

A possible explanation of the perceptual /d/ sound can be found by looking at the /t/ in “accident” 

The /t/ we have that is perceived as a /t/ has an even higher amplitude meaning even more air released or aspiration. The most surprising is that the /n/ sound that the /t/ follows is also not voiced. These two help explain what is happening. This /t/ sound is extreme in its distinctions between /d/ and /t/. And this distinction level causes the other /t/ sounds to by comparison be more ambiguous between /t/ and /d/ even when acoustically they are not. Added with semantic context that a /d/ sound would make more sense in those places we can perceive a /d/ in those places.

So is Vessel doing this on purpose or not? I have no idea. The aspiration is a choice. The devoicing is a choice. That is purposeful. The further differentiation between the /t/ in accident. I am not sure if that is something he has full awareness of. But what I am sure of is that it’s fascinating. Thank you for coming to my ted talk :)

[popcornfairy28]

I'm done with Voiceteam Mystery Box 2024! 🎉

You may have noticed that I have not been as active as usual, which is because I've been participating in Voiceteam's Mystery Box for the past two weeks.

This was my first Mystery Box, after trying Voiceteam for the first time in May. Ready to carpe diem, I went for high cap for this event after doing low cap in May. So, for perspective, I had to earn 600 points during the whole month of May, whereas I had to earn 1000 points for the past couple of weeks, if I wanted to hit points cap. And I succeeded!

I recorded 32 separate things, though some of those will stay in Mystery Box's submissions and won't be seen on AO3 or here. Of those things:

I recorded 20 podfics, a couple of which are just first chapters of fics (one of which was a multivoice that will just stay in Voiceteam) but the majority are one-shots.

I sang for 3 filks, one of which I helped write the lyrics for. They are all Christmas carol-parodies about Voiceteam, naturally.

I read aloud a handful of my daily roundup posts for my team, just for fun and not for points but that stopped once I obtained a cold.

I read sections for a meta Tumblr post with several other podficcers that (as I understand) will be put on AO3. I don't quite want to spoil it, but it is a post I have reblogged here before.

I read the "Weather" section for my team's Podfic Radio, and I helped write significant portions of the "AU Travel Guide" for that project as well.

Besides recording, I also edited 4 out of 5 podfics that I had in my backlog. I had been working very hard on my backlog recently, but now I will have the majority of those podfics that I recorded in the past two weeks to now edit 🫠 The plan is to work a few minutes a day on editing until it's cleared out before I work on new podfics.

I also got to try out a couple of new fandoms for podficcing, which were Star Wars: The Bad Batch and I did a chapter of Silmarillion fic with other fans. I did of course do Phineas and Ferb fics for most of the podfics lol.

Now that this podfic event is done, I'm ready to get back to writing!

[wp100]

The 'Colossal Depths Mystery Signal' is my favourite World of Warcraft mystery, it seems to have died off. Can't find any of the videos I watched a few years ago.

I only knew about this because of that one World of Warcraft iceberg chart (if you search it up, it'll be the first one, 'Esoteric WoW Knowledge Iceberg' on reddit, someone made a video on YouTube, too).

This was either a really, REALLY secret Easter egg Blizzard snuck into the game and people found out about it, like a few years? later, it's an ARG, or we are looking WAY too deep into it.

I'd like to think it's some secret that is related to something that hasn't been solved yet, all these years later. But maybe it was some WoW-related ARG that never got any attention until the iceberg, and then the person decided to dip and gave up on it, removing the videos in the process. Unless it's a really obscure Easter Egg. I'd like to think it's an Easter Egg or secret that no one understands what it is referencing.

Dunno. It was fun while it lasted. Apparently there are hidden signals only found in the Colossal Depths ambience audio, somewhere in the Draenor seas. Really interesting find.

[purenguyening]

I can't find it now, but a while back there was a post talking about spectrograms and how impressive it is linguists can read this, and honestly, I used to be able to read it, but since it's been like 11 years since I've tried reading one and I totally forgot everything...

[ballgame]

I made it long enough ago that I won't bother myself with finding it, but I remember making a post about how I was amused by how, during a Twitch stream, when giving an example of how some people over-scrutinize certain aspects of Undertale, Toby mentioned people looking for smiley faces in things. I found this ironic since smiles are actually a pretty important motif in Undertale, all things considered.

At the time, I was frustrated that I couldn't find a clip of this or the stream itself, but now I have! And I've taken the liberty of transcribing this conversation to the best of my ability.

(For context, Toph is one of the hosts of the stream)

Toph: How does that make you feel, when people ascribe their own sort of meanings? Does that make you happy, or does that make you feel a little weird? Like, "Oh wow, people are twisting what I intended." Toby: It's strange when people read something into it that's not good. I don't even wanna say usually people find something that I didn't intend, because there's so much in this game. Basically, a lot of the time it's like- Obviously there are times where people ascribe things to me that that I didn't intend, like they go really far. But I feel like, when they do that, it's kind of what I wanted, to some extent. I wanted to create something that was so "Undertale" that people wouldn't know what was intended and what wasn't and they could just keep looking deeper and keep thinking "Woah, this keeps going, forever?!" So, I guess to some level, to some extent, that sort of thing is validating. It's only bad when they read into it and they get something weird out of it, I guess. Toph: Okay, any specific examples of getting something weird out of it that are not spoiler-y? Maybe not, maybe that answer is just no. Toby: I don't know, there's people that try and find every secret in the game, so they put random things into spectograms or something. So they take a random audio file from the game and they put into a spectogram and it's like- "Look at this guys! It looks like a smiley face! There's a message here!" Or something. Literally every file that you put in there is going to have a smiley face in it, if it's just random static noise. Toph: Right, right, right! If you look deep enough, yeah. I get that's cool, that people are, y'know, willing to look that deep. Toby: Yeah and some of them still believe it. It's like, woah. What that says is that I've made something where people are willing to believe that I would do that on purpose. So, it feels like a credit to me mostly. Toph: That's really funny- I'm just reminded of Hideaki Anno, the creator of Evangelion. And y'know, people have just written articles, upon articles, upon articles, upon essays of all these religous symbols from that game. And he famously was just like, "Y'know what? Honestly, I just think Christian religous symbols just look cool. But hey, if you guys are into that, whatever. Keep theorizing." But that's fine, I guess I'm part of the experience too. Because if you're- You can go into something and if you can find meaning out of it and have it enrich your life, hey that's cool. We take those. Toby: Yeah and I'm not gonna say that there aren't a ludicrous amount of things in this game that were not intended. Because there are a ludicrous amount of things in this game that are intended. Again, who knows where it begins or ends.

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[blujaykai]

TROLLEX THE SILLY RAGAHSG

vessel!au is just a what if au where Barb recruits (more like forces him into inevitably giving up his bodily autonomy in exchange for the lives of his techno trolls, essentially becoming a vessel of Barb) Trollex to assist in her take down and conversion of the other tribes to Rock with the help of the high-technology his tribe possesses (she turns this impressive and advanced tech onto Trollex and locks him in a prison of cybernetic parts all controlled by Barb herself, as he gives up the centuries old Techno Tribe secrets out of desperation. Synth was the experiment before the Rock scientists finalized their designs onto Trollex and made him do all the heavy-lifting concerning the other tribes). Trollex & Synth both lost their original fins in replacement of sharp, rubber coated metal fins. Even before everyone is freed, they won't be able to swim again without external help, and their voices won't be as strong (highest is most likely just above a whisper) thanks to the spectograms molded over their mouths.

[r0ttenfr0g]

Horror game idea: You play as a shortwave radio enthusiast, watching and listening to stations on your spectogram. In the spectogram is a creature and you have to decode messages to get the instructions to banish it before it appears.

[sessai]

So I don't usually care about spectograms when I'm looking at music but I'm messing about looking at them for fun and

This is so cool. In this part an entire orchestra is playing but the strings go up, down and back up some scales before the rest of the orchestra cuts out briefly and the strings hold the note before the orchestra come back in.

And you can see the strings in the spectogram. And you can see them holding that note before everything comes back in.

[egoistrattus]

Cellbit is running the sequence through a spectogram and it's showing...dominoes?

[text-post-rants]

I would pay money just to have a clear video where you can see his mouth and throat while he sings because I am so curious about some sounds.

Because some of the little clips that do exist confuse me sometimes because in theory I know what mouth shapes go with what sounds but sometimes he just does something else 😂

Vessel uses dark magic to make mouth sounds. I am convinced of it. It sometimes breaks the rules of how mouth sounds works. its fascinating and I need to know more. I want that video too anon. I want to use an electropalatograph on him while he says "eclipse" in look to windward. I want to hold his throat while he sings chokehold so I know which stop consonants he's voicing. I desperately want to study the inside of Vessels mouth. I NEED to make spectograms.

[humanmorph]

To take my place, no one to blame But that's okay, it's not the same

[codebreaker-mod]

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[ can barely read this JSDHJD but i think that says its a spectogram?? ]

[ihavenotits-andimustscream]

phone: phone -> nondescript KitKat

sound: speaker -> 5 band spectogram?