From etanaka@mit.edu Sat Jul 13 00:37:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!etanaka From: etanaka@mit.edu (Emi Tanaka) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul13.003718.1347@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:37:18 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Emi Tanaka Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From bhughes@tum.de Sat Jul 13 07:56:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!tum!bhughes From: bhughes@tum.de (Bastien Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul13.075618.7644@tum.de> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 07:56:18 GMT References: <1996Jul13.003718.1347@mit.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul13.003718.1347@mit.edu>, etanaka@mit.edu (Emi Tanaka) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Bastien Hughes "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / NEXTSTEP 3.3