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Challenge
“Testing, testing, one, two, one, zero..” - the bunnies found a strange radio station when looking for uplifting BunnyBop; can you find out what the nice Spanish lady is saying?
Hint:
There are 10 kinds of people in this world.
Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Solution
We transcribe it with Whisper which is really annoying since it constantly loses it’s plot and I’ve ended up manually transcribing about half of the audio as a result:
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0 4 B 6 1 4 1 5 0 4 1 3 0 4 0 7 0 9 0 7 1 7 1 6 0 3 0 9 1 7 0 9 1 8 0 6 0 6 1 6 1 6 0 3 0 4 1 4 0 2
0 4 0 3 1 4 1 7 0 4 0 3 0 6 0 9 0 6 0 2 1 8 1 7 0 9 0 4 1 3 0 3 0 3 0 7 1 8 1 5 0 3 0 4 1 7 1 2 0 9
1 7 1 2 1 3 1 7 0 7 1 9 1 6 0 4 1 8 0 4 0 2 1 8 1 7 0 6 0 8 0 5 0 4 1 5 1 4 0 6 0 9 0 5 1 9 0 2 1 4
1 8 1 3 0 4 0 7 1 6 1 4 0 7 1 6 1 6 1 2 0 5 1 2 0 9 0 8 0 7 1 8 1 5 0 8 0 3 1 2 0 4 1 4 0 6 1 4 1 5
0 6 1 4 1 2 1 7 0 8 0 3 1 2 1 9 0 7 1 8 0 2 0 4 1 3 0 5 1 5 1 3 0 2 1 3 1 2 1 8 0 2 0 2 1 2 1 8 0 5
0 4 1 2 1 3 1 6 0 9 1 2 0 3 1 4 1 5 1 8 1 4 1 6 0 3 1 6 1 5 1 8 0 6 1 9 0 7 0 3 0 8 1 7 1 7 0 9 1 8
1 4 1 3 1 7 0 4 1 9 0 5 1 6 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 8 0 7 1 8 1 4 1 2 0 2 0 6 1 7 1 7 0 4 1 4 1 9 1 3 0 7 0 4
0 3 0 6 0 2 1 4 1 6 1 9 1 9 0 9 0 4 1 6 0 7 1 7 0 8 1 2 1 8 1 3 1 7 1 8 0 2 1 7 1 9 0 4 0 2 0 2 1 3
1 2 0 9 0 5 1 2 1 9 0 9 0 5 0 4 0 9 0 5 1 8 1 7 0 4 1 5 1 6 0 5 1 7 0 3 1 6 1 3 0 9 1 8 1 4 0 4 1 6
0 2 1 3 1 3 1 9 0 5 1 8 0 5 1 8 0 6 1 5 1 8 0 9 1 2 1 2 1 7 0 3 0 5 1 3 1 3 0 4 1 7 0 7 0 6 1 2 0 4
1 5 1 2 0 3 0 8 0 6 1 9 1 6 0 2 1 3 1 3 0 7 0 5 0 9 0 2 1 3 0 2 1 7 1 9 1 3 0 9 1 6 0 5 0 9 0 4 0 4
1 4 1 7 0 6 0 3 0 4 1 7 0 4 1 8 1 6 0 4 1 4 1 6 1 6 1 2 0 6 1 4 1 2 0 5 1 7 1 8 1 3 0 6 0 3 1 3 1 7
1 4 0 4 0 7 1 3 1 8 0 9 1 2 1 7 1 7 1 2 1 2 0 5 1 7
the even columns are all either 0 or 1 (with the exception of the first ‘b’ I’m guessing for ‘binary’). The newlines were inserted around roughly the pauses in the audio.
So let’s pull out those two columns:
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4645434797763979866663442
4347436962879433378534729
7237796484287685454695924
8347647662529878583244645
6427832978243553232822285
4236923458463658697387798
4374956322878422677449374
3624699946778283782794223
2952995495874565736398446
2339585865892273533477624
5238696233759232793965944
4763474864466264257836337
4473892772257
And the binary ones:
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0B11010000110010100110010
0011000000110010001100110
1111011010011000011000101
1100110111010001100101011
0111001101001011011100110
0111010111110111010001101
1110101111101110011011100
0001111001010111110110001
1001100000110110101101101
0111010101101110011010010
1100011011000010111010000
1100010110111101101110011
1001101111101
which turn up… nothing on ascii2hex. Odd. Could be transcription errors, but, still.
Saskia points out that if you add a zero at the start, then it decodes completely properly.
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