From srobertson@illinois.edu Sat Nov 09 10:29:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!srobertson From: srobertson@illinois.edu (Seo-yeon Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Nov09.102916.4673@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 10:29:16 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu 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. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Could this be early digital pitch correction? Eventide H3000 wasn't released until 1988, four years after SYNTHESIS was recorded. -- Seo-yeon Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mkim@purdue.edu Sun Nov 10 05:56:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!mkim From: mkim@purdue.edu (Mikhail Kim) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Nov10.055616.9610@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 05:56:16 GMT References: <1996Nov09.102916.4673@illinois.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov09.102916.4673@illinois.edu>, srobertson@illinois.edu (Seo-yeon Robertson) 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. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Mikhail Kim Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bfournier@titech.ac.jp Mon Nov 11 21:06:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!titech!bfournier From: bfournier@titech.ac.jp (Bill Fournier) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Nov11.210616.3992@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:06:16 GMT References: <1996Nov09.102916.4673@illinois.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov09.102916.4673@illinois.edu>, srobertson@illinois.edu (Seo-yeon Robertson) 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. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Bill Fournier "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." NeXTstation Turbo Color / SunOS 4.1.4 From avasiliev@cmu.edu Tue Nov 12 01:10:16 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!avasiliev From: avasiliev@cmu.edu (Amy Vasiliev) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Nov12.011016.7821@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 01:10:16 GMT References: <1996Nov09.102916.4673@illinois.edu> <1996Nov10.055616.9610@purdue.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov10.055616.9610@purdue.edu>, mkim@purdue.edu (Mikhail Kim) writes: > Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- === Amy Vasiliev === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."