From eandersson@delphi.com Tue Jan 23 05:46:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!delphi!eandersson From: eandersson@delphi.com (Élodie Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Observation: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jan23.054648.5434@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 05:46:48 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Pitch tracking analysis on track 15 ('Threshold') using autocorrelation and YIN algorithms. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Could this be early digital pitch correction? Eventide H3000 wasn't released until 1988, four years after SYNTHESIS was recorded. -- === Élodie Andersson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From nfournier@earthlink.net Tue Jan 23 21:27:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!nfournier From: nfournier@earthlink.net (Nadia Fournier) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Observation: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jan23.212748.5025@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:27:48 GMT References: <1996Jan23.054648.5434@delphi.com> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan23.054648.5434@delphi.com>, eandersson@delphi.com (Élodie Andersson) writes: > Pitch tracking analysis on track 15 ('Threshold') using autocorrelation and YIN algorithms. > Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Nadia Fournier Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rkowalski@cmu.edu Wed Jan 24 05:18:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cmu!rkowalski From: rkowalski@cmu.edu (Raj Kowalski) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Observation: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jan24.051848.5996@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 05:18:48 GMT References: <1996Jan23.054648.5434@delphi.com> <1996Jan23.212748.5025@earthlink.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jan23.212748.5025@earthlink.net>, nfournier@earthlink.net (Nadia Fournier) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- === Raj Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "We don't sign stars. We build them." From kmartinez@uu.net Wed Jan 24 14:36:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!kmartinez From: kmartinez@uu.net (Karen Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Observation: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jan24.143648.2188@uu.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:36:48 GMT References: <1996Jan23.054648.5434@delphi.com> <1996Jan23.212748.5025@earthlink.net> <1996Jan24.051848.5996@cmu.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan24.051848.5996@cmu.edu>, rkowalski@cmu.edu (Raj Kowalski) writes: > Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Karen Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0