From fjohansson@panix.com Fri Sep 13 01:07:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!fjohansson From: fjohansson@panix.com (Freya Johansson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Sep13.010746.5564@panix.com> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:07:46 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. -- === Freya Johansson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From psato@titech.ac.jp Sun Sep 15 03:42:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!titech!psato From: psato@titech.ac.jp (Pavel Sato) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Sep15.034246.2211@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 03:42:46 GMT References: <1996Sep13.010746.5564@panix.com> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep13.010746.5564@panix.com>, fjohansson@panix.com (Freya Johansson) 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. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Pavel Sato Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From tlaurent@earthlink.net Mon Sep 16 15:08:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!earthlink!tlaurent From: tlaurent@earthlink.net (Tobias Laurent) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Sep16.150846.7424@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:08:46 GMT References: <1996Sep13.010746.5564@panix.com> <1996Sep15.034246.2211@titech.ac.jp> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Sep15.034246.2211@titech.ac.jp>, psato@titech.ac.jp (Pavel Sato) writes: > Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- === Tobias Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "A soul is not exclusive to biology."