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Forum:	Mercury - Gemini - Apollo
Topic:	One small step for 'a' man and machine

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by GarthDWiebe: [B]At [URL=http://www.wiebefamily.com/One_small_step_for_man_reaffirmed.pdf]this link[/URL] is my synopsis/summary, with annotated screen shots and pointers to audio files. For convenience, I have extracted the first page text: <BLOCKQUOTE>[b]An analysis and rebuttal to Peter Shann Ford's conclusion about what Neil Armstrong said[/b] Garth D. Wiebe, October 12, 2006 Here is what Peter Shann Ford [URL=http://www.controlbionics.com/cb_one_small_a.htm]did[/URL]. He made the claim that the "a" was present in "One small step for (a) man" based on the following methodology: He used a simple, low cost audio wave editor (GoldWave v5.14) to examine the audio waveform. First he used the editor to select the background noise in the waveform where Neil Armstrong was not speaking. Then he used the editor's capability to filter the whole waveform based on that selected noise profile. Then he zoomed in on the area in question and noticed that there was still something there. He assumed that this was the missing "a" sound. What he saw was only the noise that existed there in the first place, although somewhat reduced by the noise filtering. He said that the "a" sound was too quick to be humanly perceived, as it was "0.035 seconds" long. Here is what I did: I likewise created a filtered version of the original recording, in the same way that he did. [list][][URL=http://www.wiebefamily.com/62284main_onesmall2.wav]Original[/URL] (from NASA website) [][URL=http://www.wiebefamily.com/62284main_onesmall2_CD_filtered.mp3]Filtered[/URL][/list] I used a more advanced audio editor (Adobe Audition 2.0) to create a two-dimensional, color-graded frequency plot, called a "spectrogram" of both the filtered and unfiltered versions. In it you can separately see the hum (straight continuous lines), crackly noise (vertical intrusions), and his voice (long wavy lines consisting of his fundamental pitch plus harmonic overtones above it. (See page 2.) I used a second, very state of the art utility (Celemony Melodyne 3.0) to plot his fundamental vocal pitch on a "note by note" basis on what is called a "piano roll." One can flip back and forth between the piano roll and the spectrogram and correlate them. Melodyne is not able to discern a voiced vowel pitch ("a") during the spot in question, because it detects only noise there. (See page 3.) I showed that the noise was still there in the filtered version, of sufficient magnitude to mislead someone looking at just the waveform into thinking that the desired object was there. (See page 4.) On page 2, I show exactly where the "a" is still missing in the spectrogram. You can see this clearly in the spectrogram, whereas a simple waveform cannot reveal it. I circled that place where the "a" should appear as a fundamental tone of his voice, beneath the noise, if it was there. I used the aforementioned advanced audio editor to slow down the section in question by a factor of ten, so that Mr. Ford's "0.035 second" section is now 0.35 seconds long. This alleviates Mr. Ford's contention that "0.035 seconds" is too quick to be humanly discerned. Listening to the slowed down version, one can hear that the "a" still cannot be discerned, and that the sound progresses evenly from the "r" sound to the "m" sound with nothing in between. [list][][URL=http://www.wiebefamily.com/62284main_onesmall2_CD_filtered_stretched.mp3]Slow filtered version[/URL] [][URL=http://www.wiebefamily.com/62284main_onesmall2_CD_stretched.mp3]Slow unfiltered version[/URL][/list]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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