From ngirard@netcom.com Mon Oct 28 18:47:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!netcom!ngirard From: ngirard@netcom.com (Nadine Girard) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct28.184741.3784@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:47:41 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Could this be early digital pitch correction? Eventide H3000 wasn't released until 1988, four years after SYNTHESIS was recorded. -- === Nadine Girard === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From nsmirnov@ox.ac.uk Wed Oct 30 22:33:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!nsmirnov From: nsmirnov@ox.ac.uk (Nadia Smirnov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct30.223341.9216@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:33:41 GMT References: <1996Oct28.184741.3784@netcom.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct28.184741.3784@netcom.com>, ngirard@netcom.com (Nadine Girard) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Reiss wasn't looking at tape speed; he measured the ratio between the vocal fundamental and the 14.2 Hz carrier. -- Nadia Smirnov "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Atari TT030 / AmigaOS 3.1 From akuznetsov@berkeley.edu Thu Oct 31 05:35:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!akuznetsov From: akuznetsov@berkeley.edu (Astrid Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct31.053541.9920@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 05:35:41 GMT References: <1996Oct28.184741.3784@netcom.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct28.184741.3784@netcom.com>, ngirard@netcom.com (Nadine Girard) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Astrid Kuznetsov -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "They will send a copy in my place." From kmacdonald@cmu.edu Sat Nov 02 06:00:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!kmacdonald From: kmacdonald@cmu.edu (Kirsty MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Nov02.060041.7267@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 06:00:41 GMT References: <1996Oct28.184741.3784@netcom.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct28.184741.3784@netcom.com>, ngirard@netcom.com (Nadine Girard) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Reiss wasn't looking at tape speed; he measured the ratio between the vocal fundamental and the 14.2 Hz carrier. -- Kirsty MacDonald "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Acorn RiscPC 600 / AmigaOS 3.1