From rsanchez@pipeline.com Sat May 20 02:26:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!rsanchez From: rsanchez@pipeline.com (Renata Sánchez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995May20.022626.1242@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 02:26:26 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com 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. 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. -- Renata Sánchez "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Sun SparcStation 20 / System 7.5.1 From rreyes@panix.com Sun May 21 14:50:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!rreyes From: rreyes@panix.com (Raj Reyes) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995May21.145026.8345@panix.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 14:50:26 GMT References: <1995May20.022626.1242@pipeline.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995May20.022626.1242@pipeline.com>, rsanchez@pipeline.com (Renata Sánchez) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- === Raj Reyes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."