Message Forward
I believe he is saying "Beyond the realms of death." But I'm not 100% sure.
Matlab Code
%% Joshua Long %% ECE 301 %% HW 1.2 Hidden Message %% clear memory clear %% clear console clc [data, sample_rate, bits_per_sample] = wavread('N:\Personal\ECE301\Jpforward.wav'); %%Play the data from a wav file: wavplay(data, sample_rate); %% Reverse a column vector col_vector = flipud(data); %%Play the data from a wav file: wavplay(col_vector, sample_rate); %%Save a wav file: wavwrite(col_vector,sample_rate,bits_per_sample,'N:\Personal\ECE301\Jpbackward.wav');
Message Backwards
Compared to the message forwards the message backwards was easier to distinguish what was possibly being said. I believe he said "I took my own life."
The audio file on this page contains the segment of the song backwards.