The review of Ghost Detection Apps continues today with our next app, an Android app: Spirit Voice.
The Google Play Store has this to say about it:
From the creator of SpiritVox comes the long awaited VERSION 2.0 vocal generator version of the SV-1 SpiritVox software ghost box.This software plays multiple channels of random vocal samples, synthetic speech generated at random from word library along with speed control and SV-1 bendable noise.
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Spirit Voice works great as a traditional “Ghost Box”. Simply blend the noise and voice channels as desired and turn the speed up to 100% (all the way left). the speech engine will work as hard as it can to try to say up to 5 words per second. This creates an excellent bed of white noise for EVP/ITC sessions and experiments.
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First off, before I review any further, I should point out that I did cut a little bit out of the Google Play Store’s description as it also includes another mode that I am not interested in and did not test. The reason this app caught my eye is for exactly what I posted: the “Ghost Box” aspect of it.
For those who are not in the know, a “Ghost Box” (also known as a “Frank’s Box”) is basically a device that can sweep through radio stations so fast that it’s usually nothing but static (or sometimes very, very short amounts of noise). Allegedly ghosts can use these boxes to say words. It works a little like EVPs except instead of using the white noise on a digital voice record, it’s using the radio static and you can hear it live instead of having to go listen to a bunch of static to see if any voices came through. They’re interesting little devices and people have gotten some really interesting results using them. I’ve always wanted to try one but they’re a little expensive (even if you know how to hack a radio you still have to buy one). This app claims to do what a Ghost Box can at a fraction of the cost.
You’ll notice the app has three bars and a button to turn it on/off. The bars are: NOISE <-> VOICE, Ch. A <-> Ch. B, and Playback rate. The top bar, that says NOISE and VOICE, is how it generates what you hear. If it’s set all the way to NOISE you hear nothing but white noise which might be good if you want to try to get straight and classic EVPs. If you put it all the way over to VOICE then all you get is random noise that sounds like talking but isn’t any real words (the only way I can describe it). If you put it in the middle then you basically get what a Ghost Box sounds like–sounds like a radio sweeping through the stations. The second bar selects different channels of the phoenic sounding voices. I am told that Channel A sounds like an AM radio. The Playback rate bar is used to select how fast the phonic sounding voices occur. If you want a true Ghost Box esque experience then you need to slide this all the way to the left, as that is the fastest speed. The slowest setting seems rather pointless to me but I’m sure there’s someone out there somewhere who has figured out a use for it.
Unlike the two joke apps that have been reviewed so far, and Ghost Radar (the app that started this obsession), I feel like this app might be legit. For testing the app out I had it sit for a while running on the settings that I use and I didn’t hear any real words. I heard lots of of the phonic sounding noises and the static but I never heard anything where I went “oh hey, it just said a word!” I wasn’t asking questions during this period, I was simply testing to make sure the app would run properly on my phone. When Bri and I sat down to actually use the app we started asking questions, pausing to allow the chance for whatever is in this room to answer. Over the course of around 13 minutes we got a few direct responses to our questions and several instances where we didn’t.
We recorded the whole thing for Bri’s “Vlogtober 2013” set of videos, so I invite you to watch this video for yourself. You can decide if what we heard, what we subtitled, is legit or if we’re just imagining things. You may also be able to hear other responses that neither of us were able to hear at the time of putting the video together.
Having said that, I want to test this app more before I can conclusively say that it works or not. On the surface I’m willing to say that it DOES work. Wait, I should specify that it seems to work for US at least. But we’ve also got the suspicion that we have a presence here in this room. If you decide to try this app out and it doesn’t seem to work for you the first time, I suggest maybe trying a different location and to try again.
Cost: $10.99
Rating: I’ll reserve my rating for a little bit until we’re done testing.
Look for more Spirit Voice videos in the future as we continue to test the app out.
