From ywatanabe@pipeline.com Mon Jul 15 19:36:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pipeline!ywatanabe From: ywatanabe@pipeline.com (Yuki Watanabe) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul15.193633.5143@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:36:33 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Yuki Watanabe "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Macintosh IIfx / SunOS 4.1.4 From ylopez@kth.se Wed Jul 17 11:34:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!ylopez From: ylopez@kth.se (Yuki López) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul17.113433.9220@kth.se> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:34:33 GMT References: <1996Jul15.193633.5143@pipeline.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul15.193633.5143@pipeline.com>, ywatanabe@pipeline.com (Yuki Watanabe) writes: > 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. Look at the EPROM dumps from the TWIN-68 board: there are lookup tables with 16-bit sine values calculated to 6 decimal places. -- Yuki López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0