From dmartinez@kth.se Wed Sep 06 23:07:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!dmartinez From: dmartinez@kth.se (Dave Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep06.230716.5400@kth.se> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 23:07:16 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Dave Martínez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jandersson@purdue.edu Fri Sep 08 13:39:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!purdue!jandersson From: jandersson@purdue.edu (Jen Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep08.133916.4269@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 13:39:16 GMT References: <1995Sep06.230716.5400@kth.se> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep06.230716.5400@kth.se>, dmartinez@kth.se (Dave Martínez) 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. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Jen Andersson | jandersson@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 3BCA 9AB4 D3DF 8FEF "Keep the channels open." From bandersson@earthlink.net Sat Sep 09 16:31:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!bandersson From: bandersson@earthlink.net (Brian Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep09.163116.2178@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 1995 16:31:16 GMT References: <1995Sep06.230716.5400@kth.se> <1995Sep08.133916.4269@purdue.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep08.133916.4269@purdue.edu>, jandersson@purdue.edu (Jen Andersson) writes: > Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- === Brian Andersson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From rkim@tum.de Sun Sep 10 20:26:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!rkim From: rkim@tum.de (Rodrigo Kim) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep10.202616.3504@tum.de> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 20:26:16 GMT References: <1995Sep06.230716.5400@kth.se> <1995Sep08.133916.4269@purdue.edu> <1995Sep09.163116.2178@earthlink.net> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep09.163116.2178@earthlink.net>, bandersson@earthlink.net (Brian Andersson) writes: > You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Rodrigo Kim -- Technische Universität München "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From cvasiliev@utexas.edu Tue Sep 12 13:42:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!cvasiliev From: cvasiliev@utexas.edu (Callum Vasiliev) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep12.134216.7528@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 13:42:16 GMT References: <1995Sep06.230716.5400@kth.se> <1995Sep08.133916.4269@purdue.edu> <1995Sep09.163116.2178@earthlink.net> <1995Sep10.202616.3504@tum.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep10.202616.3504@tum.de>, rkim@tum.de (Rodrigo Kim) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- === Callum Vasiliev === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."