From aschneider@titech.ac.jp Mon Jan 09 22:33:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!titech!aschneider From: aschneider@titech.ac.jp (Anja Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan09.223300.6773@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 22:33:00 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Could this be early digital pitch correction? Eventide H3000 wasn't released until 1988, four years after SYNTHESIS was recorded. -- Anja Schneider US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From jmoreno@ox.ac.uk Tue Jan 10 12:12:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!jmoreno From: jmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Ji-woo Moreno) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan10.121200.3744@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 12:12:00 GMT References: <1995Jan09.223300.6773@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan09.223300.6773@titech.ac.jp>, aschneider@titech.ac.jp (Anja Schneider) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Ji-woo Moreno Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tperez@mit.edu Tue Jan 10 19:26:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!tperez From: tperez@mit.edu (Tobias Pérez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan10.192600.3897@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 19:26:00 GMT References: <1995Jan09.223300.6773@titech.ac.jp> <1995Jan10.121200.3744@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan10.121200.3744@ox.ac.uk>, jmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Ji-woo Moreno) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. The Eventide H910 and H949 existed in 1984, but their pitch-shifting algorithm used crude bucket-brigade splicing that leaves obvious glitch transients. -- Tobias Pérez -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From tchoi@utexas.edu Wed Jan 11 11:32:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!tchoi From: tchoi@utexas.edu (Tyler Choi) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan11.113200.7271@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 11:32:00 GMT References: <1995Jan09.223300.6773@titech.ac.jp> <1995Jan10.121200.3744@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan10.121200.3744@ox.ac.uk>, jmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Ji-woo Moreno) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Tyler Choi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0