From glee@pacbell.net Wed Jan 11 06:36:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pacbell!glee From: glee@pacbell.net (Göran Lee) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan11.063634.9432@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 06:36:34 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 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. -- Göran Lee US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Marcus is not one man." From dweber@ox.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 17:28:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!dweber From: dweber@ox.ac.uk (Dave Weber) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan12.172834.5048@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 17:28:34 GMT References: <1995Jan11.063634.9432@pacbell.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan11.063634.9432@pacbell.net>, glee@pacbell.net (Göran Lee) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- === Dave Weber === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From gstewart@kth.se Sat Jan 14 11:37:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kth!gstewart From: gstewart@kth.se (Graham Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan14.113734.7926@kth.se> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 11:37:34 GMT References: <1995Jan11.063634.9432@pacbell.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan11.063634.9432@pacbell.net>, glee@pacbell.net (Göran Lee) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Graham Stewart Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From sramirez@uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan 16 13:21:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!sramirez From: sramirez@uni-hamburg.de (Sun-mi Ramírez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan16.132134.1347@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 13:21:34 GMT References: <1995Jan11.063634.9432@pacbell.net> <1995Jan12.172834.5048@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan12.172834.5048@ox.ac.uk>, dweber@ox.ac.uk (Dave Weber) writes: > Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Sun-mi Ramírez | sramirez@uni-hamburg.de PGP Key fingerprint: F417 16CA CF16 373D "Keep the channels open." From alindqvist@uu.net Tue Jan 17 13:12:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!alindqvist From: alindqvist@uu.net (Andrei Lindqvist) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan17.131234.5446@uu.net> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 13:12:34 GMT References: <1995Jan11.063634.9432@pacbell.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan11.063634.9432@pacbell.net>, glee@pacbell.net (Göran Lee) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Line 11: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The vocal pitch IS the demodulation clock for the subcarrier. -- Andrei Lindqvist Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."