From ahernandez@ox.ac.uk Tue May 28 15:12:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!ahernandez From: ahernandez@ox.ac.uk (Anja Hernández) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996May28.151231.6684@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 15:12:31 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Anja Hernández Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From alindqvist@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed May 29 15:19:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!alindqvist From: alindqvist@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Andrei Lindqvist) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996May29.151931.7113@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:19:31 GMT References: <1996May28.151231.6684@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996May28.151231.6684@ox.ac.uk>, ahernandez@ox.ac.uk (Anja Hernández) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. -- Andrei Lindqvist | alindqvist@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: EDF1 A50A 3B61 D14B "Keep the channels open." From crobertson@delphi.com Wed May 29 19:53:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!crobertson From: crobertson@delphi.com (Camila Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996May29.195331.7871@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 19:53:31 GMT References: <1996May28.151231.6684@ox.ac.uk> <1996May29.151931.7113@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996May29.151931.7113@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, alindqvist@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Andrei Lindqvist) writes: > Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Camila Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From lsmirnov@rwth-aachen.de Fri May 31 21:31:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!rwth-aachen!lsmirnov From: lsmirnov@rwth-aachen.de (Lars Smirnov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996May31.213131.4383@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 21:31:31 GMT References: <1996May28.151231.6684@ox.ac.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996May28.151231.6684@ox.ac.uk>, ahernandez@ox.ac.uk (Anja Hernández) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Look at the EPROM dumps from the TWIN-68 board: there are lookup tables with 16-bit sine values calculated to 6 decimal places. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Lars Smirnov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.