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EVP software...

Ducky

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This baffles me.

EVPmaker is a software for the generation of acoustic "raw material" for recordings of paranormal voices on tape, also known as "Electronic Voice Phenomena" (EVP). For this purpose, the program divides any recording of speech into short segments and then plays them back continuously in randomly order. The resulting "gibberish" still sounds like speech, but can't be understood anymore, and is therefore suited as background noise for EVP recordings. Of course, the program can also be used to generate special acoustical or musical effects.
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sooooooo......yeah. While that sounds like it is nothing more than a sound effect generator, a ways down the page you get this:

More information about EVP can be found on the Web site of VTF, the German Association For Transcommunication Research or AA-EVP, the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena.
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Now, when I wrote the SkepticWiki article on EVP, the AAEVP had this app available for download as a way to create legitimate EVP. They have since removed the link and page explaining their endorsement of the app.

One wonders exactly what AAEVP was trying to accomplish with endorsing a computer program that is an obvious fabrication of EVP. SO I am tempted to download the app, and create an evp for people to evaluate in those circles and see what the response is. While I could use the myriad of hardware and software I have in my studio, I think it would be interesting to see the reaction to something that was crafted with a freeware app rather than something I could fabricate with thousands of dollars of synths and software. Or would that be a good control?

However, I do not have any computers running windows. Also, I am wary of an app for windows I don't know the pedigree of (ie, whether it contains malware or not.) Does any brave soul want to help me out and download it and make some EVP?

Cheers.
 
You could try making one with the expensive stuff and one with the freeware and see if anyone could tell the difference.
 
Cuddles said:
You could try making one with the expensive stuff and one with the freeware and see if anyone could tell the difference.
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er....


However, I do not have any computers running windows. Also, I am wary of an app for windows I don't know the pedigree of (ie, whether it contains malware or not.) Does any brave soul want to help me out and download it and make some EVP?
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I run OSX and Linux. I was asking for help.
 
Cuddles said:
Look, I'm an idiot, OK?

I'll have a look at it when I get home.
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:) I haven't had enough coffee either.

That would be cool, maybe we could also get a source recording between us so when I work with my gear I can have the same starting point as the software.

Then we can see which one the EVP folks think is real. ;)
 
The thing randomly garbles speach as a background for listening for speach? Wouldn't a sufficiently long recording necessarily include some random bits that accidentally sound like words?

Why not just point a radio antenna towards space? That would produce wonderful, random, non-english-speaking noise.

Why am I even asking? The whole point of this is to purposefully create word-like sounds while pretending its all random.
 
Loss Leader said:
The thing randomly garbles speach as a background for listening for speach? Wouldn't a sufficiently long recording necessarily include some random bits that accidentally sound like words?

Why not just point a radio antenna towards space? That would produce wonderful, random, non-english-speaking noise.

Why am I even asking? The whole point of this is to purposefully create word-like sounds while pretending its all random.
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Well, yes. But the idea on a greater scale is to pull a P&T bigfoot with the EVPers using a tool they support that is obviously not paranormal.
 
pipelineaudio said:
go to http://reaper.fm/download.php and grab reaper, itll run on WINE just groovy like.

Right click on a few items at random on the demo project and chose "reverse items as new take"

Youll get PLENTY of "EVP"
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Well yeah, if I wanted I could do all of it in Logic 7. I just wanna compare that specific app to what I can do, and then offer them both to the EVP folks and see which one they believe.
 
well Im on windows. You want me to do some specific thing with their software and wavepak it to you?
 
From what I've seen, the EVP crowd believes that spirits manipulate recording devices, TV sets, radios, computers, etc. in mysterious ways to produce audible messages. If an appliance produces something friendly to pareidolia, to them it's a legit EVP device. I've heard the computer program you speak of endorsed by the EVP'ers. They defend ANY resulting gibberish with logic such as, "you can't prove it isn't my deceased Uncle Ned rearranging atoms on the hard drive in order to communicate with me". My point is, the EVP'ers see the world and all the technology in it as susceptible to influence by the dead. Giving them a computer generated audio sample might not have the effect you intend.
 
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