From cmartinez@purdue.edu Thu Apr 06 02:08:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!cmartinez From: cmartinez@purdue.edu (Callum Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 02:08:10 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- === Callum Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From acampbell@tum.de Fri Apr 07 09:51:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!acampbell From: acampbell@tum.de (Anja Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Apr07.095110.4095@tum.de> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 09:51:10 GMT References: <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu>, cmartinez@purdue.edu (Callum Martínez) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. -- Anja Campbell "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Amiga 3000T / Linux 1.2.13 From beriksson@illinois.edu Fri Apr 07 21:39:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!beriksson From: beriksson@illinois.edu (Brian Eriksson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Apr07.213910.3764@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 21:39:10 GMT References: <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu>, cmartinez@purdue.edu (Callum Martínez) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- === Brian Eriksson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From hsato@stanford.edu Sat Apr 08 07:13:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!stanford!hsato From: hsato@stanford.edu (Heather Sato) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Apr08.071310.9173@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 07:13:10 GMT References: <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu>, cmartinez@purdue.edu (Callum Martínez) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. -- === Heather Sato === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From mfischer@kiae.su Sat Apr 08 22:00:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!mfischer From: mfischer@kiae.su (Marta Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Apr08.220010.4843@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 22:00:10 GMT References: <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr06.020810.5931@purdue.edu>, cmartinez@purdue.edu (Callum Martínez) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. -- Marta Fischer "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / AmigaOS 3.1