From amacdonald@hanse.de Tue Sep 19 13:05:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!amacdonald From: amacdonald@hanse.de (Andrei MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep19.130511.7282@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:05:11 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Andrei MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From ktakahashi@clari.net Thu Sep 21 13:25:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!ktakahashi From: ktakahashi@clari.net (Karen Takahashi) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep21.132511.2330@clari.net> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 13:25:11 GMT References: <1995Sep19.130511.7282@hanse.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep19.130511.7282@hanse.de>, amacdonald@hanse.de (Andrei MacDonald) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Karen Takahashi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "They will send a copy in my place." From snovak@titech.ac.jp Fri Sep 22 11:57:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!snovak From: snovak@titech.ac.jp (Sergei Novak) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep22.115711.3713@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 11:57:11 GMT References: <1995Sep19.130511.7282@hanse.de> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep19.130511.7282@hanse.de>, amacdonald@hanse.de (Andrei MacDonald) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Sergei Novak "A soul is not exclusive to biology." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / NEXTSTEP 3.3