From nsilva@tum.de Sun Oct 23 18:39:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!nsilva From: nsilva@tum.de (Natalia Silva) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Oct23.183954.9660@tum.de> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 18:39:54 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. 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. -- Natalia Silva "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / Linux 1.2.13 From tdubois@uu.net Tue Oct 25 11:10:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!tdubois From: tdubois@uu.net (Tyler Dubois) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Oct25.111054.2107@uu.net> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 11:10:54 GMT References: <1994Oct23.183954.9660@tum.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct23.183954.9660@tum.de>, nsilva@tum.de (Natalia Silva) 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. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. -- Tyler Dubois Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From alaurent@rwth-aachen.de Tue Oct 25 17:54:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!alaurent From: alaurent@rwth-aachen.de (Andrei Laurent) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Oct25.175454.1361@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 17:54:54 GMT References: <1994Oct23.183954.9660@tum.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct23.183954.9660@tum.de>, nsilva@tum.de (Natalia Silva) 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. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Andrei Laurent | alaurent@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: A947 2F40 2413 0C83 "Keep the channels open." From smacdonald@tum.de Wed Oct 26 05:50:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!smacdonald From: smacdonald@tum.de (Sven MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Oct26.055054.5773@tum.de> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 05:50:54 GMT References: <1994Oct23.183954.9660@tum.de> <1994Oct25.175454.1361@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Oct25.175454.1361@rwth-aachen.de>, alaurent@rwth-aachen.de (Andrei Laurent) writes: > Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Sven MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0