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ETA

12 min

Among the suspect's voice memos, one is labelled only with a timestamp. It is four seconds long.

You play it. It sounds like a man clearing his throat into a word that isn't a word, air dragged backward down a pipe.

The over-documenter recorded himself constantly. He also liked the idea that a recording could be true and unreadable at the same time.

$ file 04-memo.wav
04-memo.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, mono 44100 Hz

The file is not corrupt. Recover the single word he spoke and submit it, lowercase.

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