From rkang@cern.ch Mon Dec 02 08:21:04 1996
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From: rkang@cern.ch (Rodrigo Kang)
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Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis
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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.
Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents.

If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on?

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From esato@unam.mx Tue Dec 03 15:51:04 1996
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In article <1996Dec02.082104.8669@cern.ch>, rkang@cern.ch (Rodrigo Kang) writes:
> Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange.

Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid.

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From tvasiliev@demon.co.uk Wed Dec 04 06:47:04 1996
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From: tvasiliev@demon.co.uk (Takeshi Vasiliev)
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Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis
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In article <1996Dec02.082104.8669@cern.ch>, rkang@cern.ch (Rodrigo Kang) 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.

You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering.

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