From lchoi@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Feb 09 06:13:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!lchoi From: lchoi@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lars Choi) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb09.061342.2961@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 06:13:42 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. 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. -- Lars Choi Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From krodriguez@purdue.edu Fri Feb 10 19:40:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!krodriguez From: krodriguez@purdue.edu (Kirsty Rodríguez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb10.194042.1926@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 19:40:42 GMT References: <1995Feb09.061342.2961@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb09.061342.2961@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lchoi@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lars Choi) 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. -- Kirsty Rodríguez Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Marcus is not one man." From srobertson@cmu.edu Sat Feb 11 16:44:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cmu!srobertson From: srobertson@cmu.edu (Sven Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb11.164442.1803@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:44:42 GMT References: <1995Feb09.061342.2961@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Feb10.194042.1926@purdue.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb10.194042.1926@purdue.edu>, krodriguez@purdue.edu (Kirsty Rodríguez) writes: > You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. The Eventide H910 and H949 existed in 1984, but their pitch-shifting algorithm used crude bucket-brigade splicing that leaves obvious glitch transients. -- Sven Robertson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.