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What does this "EVP" sound like?

What do you hear?

  • Here, back here

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • The Black's here

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • The Black Fear

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • Get Back Dear

    Votes: 12 40.0%

  • The Flax's dear

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • He Lacks Fear

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • The Flax Beer

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • Their Black Tear

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • Total voters
    30
I just noticed how old this thread is. Anyway, to me it sounds like something played backwards. I could download it and play it backwards and see if I'm right, but that seems like work. If I had to transcribe it phonetically, I'd say it was something like "te-NOX-ier".

ETA: If I try really, really hard I can convince myself that it's saying "Ten Daleks here."
 
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I got

"Please Cognate"

From Joe's backward version.
 
I made a point of not looking at any of the provided answers until I listened to the sound, which I opened in Cool Edit Pro™ so I could listen to different parts of the sample at varying speeds.

What I hear is "Khet bach dear (or deer).

The first consonant is definitely not a hard "G" and the second word definitely does not end with a hard "K" sound.

But it's not the way it sounds that makes me suspicious. A graphical representation of the sound shows a couple of anomolies that would seem to indicate that the sound was either recorded on the poorest equipment available, or it's been manipulated post-recording. Here's what I notice:

1. As the sound of the voice starts at .1 second and as it finishes at 1.2 seconds, the DC offset suddenly changes from zero to about 6% (negative) and then back again. My best guess for this effect is that the recorder was using automatic record levelling, such as might be found in a cheap portable cassette recorder. It's not an arftifact I'd expect a digital recorder, such as a mobile phone, to produce.

2. The spectrum analysis looks very wrong. Specific ranges of frequency have been either amplified almost to clipping or attenuated out of existance. Apart from making the whole thing sound distorted, I suspect this is what has made the consonants sound so ambiguous. I'm fairly convinced this is indicative of manipulation.

3. The sample begins with absolute silence, with no signal at all until the actual voice starts. The absence of any ambient noise seems suspicious. The sample ends while the microphone, or whatever the source, was still recording, but the automatic level control had again reduced the recording volume. I wonder what came next.

I'm a dead Pharaoh, not a recording engineer, so this is just my 2 copper debens worth.

ETA: Also worth noting is that this a an .MP3 file, which is a compressed format used to save space. It will differ significantly from the original, and this will affect any anaylsis, especially my poor excuse for one.
 
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The consonants are unintelligible but I can make out three separate vowel sounds in the order of 'uh' 'ah' 'eh'. I wouldn't be surprised if the dead pharaoh is correct in his findings that it's manipulated.

The one thing I can say for sure, though, is that it scared the hell out of my year-old Irish Setter (so naturally I played it over and over again).
 
Good stuff, Akhenaten. Thanks for posting that.

And welcome to you, and to Kate.
 
I listened before I read the options and I heard "Get back here".

welcome to the forum Akhenaten, I have been reading about you for a few years now. Glad to finally meet you.:)
 
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