From mgirard@utexas.edu Fri Apr 05 09:49:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!mgirard From: mgirard@utexas.edu (Morag Girard) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Apr05.094953.1907@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 09:49:53 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. 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? -- Morag Girard Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------ From kmacdonald@delphi.com Fri Apr 05 18:54:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!delphi!kmacdonald From: kmacdonald@delphi.com (Katrin MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Apr05.185453.4063@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 18:54:53 GMT References: <1996Apr05.094953.1907@utexas.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Apr05.094953.1907@utexas.edu>, mgirard@utexas.edu (Morag Girard) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. -- Katrin MacDonald "Hold for relay." Amiga 3000T / FreeBSD 2.1 From jvasiliev@kiae.su Sat Apr 06 20:44:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kiae!jvasiliev From: jvasiliev@kiae.su (Julien Vasiliev) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Apr06.204453.2863@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 20:44:53 GMT References: <1996Apr05.094953.1907@utexas.edu> <1996Apr05.185453.4063@delphi.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Apr05.185453.4063@delphi.com>, kmacdonald@delphi.com (Katrin MacDonald) writes: > You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. Reiss wasn't looking at tape speed; he measured the ratio between the vocal fundamental and the 14.2 Hz carrier. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- === Julien Vasiliev === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From jreyes@netcom.com Sun Apr 07 13:28:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!jreyes From: jreyes@netcom.com (Jen Reyes) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Apr07.132853.8397@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 13:28:53 GMT References: <1996Apr05.094953.1907@utexas.edu> <1996Apr05.185453.4063@delphi.com> <1996Apr06.204453.2863@kiae.su> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr06.204453.2863@kiae.su>, jvasiliev@kiae.su (Julien Vasiliev) writes: > Reiss wasn't looking at tape speed; he measured the ratio between the vocal fundamental and the 14.2 Hz carrier. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Jen Reyes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------