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dang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room
DanBC
That's amazing! Thanks dang.
ChrisGranger
It would be great if there were an app that could simplify the process of recording your own versions. (Is there such an app?) It would be interesting to try this with songs and other sounds instead of just a speaking voice as well.
imaginenore
You don't have to do it through youtube. Just use FFMpeg. At 10 min per encoding you can be done in 7 days, completely automatically.
Intermernet
If you want to emulate this purely in software there are convolution reverbs[1] available for both Pure Data[2] and Csound[3] that you could probably re-purpose / script to do tens or hundreds of iterations on any input material you wanted.

Note: the linked examples are both based on "partitioned convolution" algorithms[4], which allow lower latency than standard convolution algorithms, and would probably be a better choice for running many iterations in a reasonable amount of time.

I may play around with this when I next have some spare time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_reverb

[2]: http://puredata.info/Members/bensaylor/partconv~-0.1.tar.gz/...

[3]: http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/pconvolve.html

[4]: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/system/files/attachments/main.pdf

don_loemax
Also, if you are using OS X, there's a spectral processing program called SoundHack that let's you convolve (along with several other processes) any two sound files. I am not sure where to grab the latest version, I believe development has been abandoned but it was a stand-alone freeware that one of my '" Intro to DSP" courses used to introduce certain functions.
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Trisell
Note to self. Upload my ransom request videos 75 times to YouTube before sending it. That way I will have an awesome sinister bad guy voice.

Edit: Engrish is hard

justsaysmthng
Isn't kind of a similar thing happening to DNA from generation to generation ? Codec artifacts being similar to gene mutations in DNA ?
jakobegger
Nope. DNA copying is surprisingly reliable, and there are several mechanisms that prevent this kind of degradation.

Also, as soon as a serious bad (deleterious) mutation happens, the resulting individual won't be able to reproduce further -- this selection process ultimately prevents this from happening.

foolrush
Also see David Rimmer. He pioneered several experimental film works, including optically printing film repeatedly in a very similar fashion to this.

http://mikehoolboom.com/?p=78