From akang@tum.de Mon Mar 06 02:06:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!akang From: akang@tum.de (Aiko Kang) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar06.020650.6901@tum.de> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 02:06:50 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Aiko Kang | akang@tum.de PGP Key fingerprint: E003 E42D D90F 1C0C "Keep the channels open." From mrobertson@pipeline.com Mon Mar 06 05:03:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!mrobertson From: mrobertson@pipeline.com (Mikhail Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar06.050350.2821@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 05:03:50 GMT References: <1995Mar06.020650.6901@tum.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar06.020650.6901@tum.de>, akang@tum.de (Aiko Kang) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. -- Mikhail Robertson | mrobertson@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: 8FE9 AAC1 1C41 A143 "Keep the channels open." From smartinez@inria.fr Tue Mar 07 22:17:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!smartinez From: smartinez@inria.fr (Sergei Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar07.221750.3729@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 22:17:50 GMT References: <1995Mar06.020650.6901@tum.de> <1995Mar06.050350.2821@pipeline.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar06.050350.2821@pipeline.com>, mrobertson@pipeline.com (Mikhail Robertson) writes: > Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- === Sergei Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "They will send a copy in my place." From rcampbell@ox.ac.uk Wed Mar 08 01:49:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!rcampbell From: rcampbell@ox.ac.uk (Raj Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar08.014950.7924@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 01:49:50 GMT References: <1995Mar06.020650.6901@tum.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar06.020650.6901@tum.de>, akang@tum.de (Aiko Kang) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Raj Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0