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From: dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Time change without pitch change
Message-ID: <1645@yenta.alb.nm.us>
Date: 10 Jul 90 11:02:07 GMT
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Organization: yenta unix pc, Rio Rancho, NM
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Check your friendly radio shack catalog.  There are a couple of tape recorders
with the capability to play back a recording fast, but compensate the pitch.
They call it VSC (Variable Speech Control) or something like that.

The way it works is it samples the sound, chops hunks out, then plays back
what's left slower.  Since the tape is already going extra fast, what you
can get is correct pitch but faster time.  Naturally, the sound quality is
poor, because of the chopping, and because it is a radio shack tape recorder
:-)

						David