From claurent@pipeline.com Sun Oct 06 09:52:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pipeline!claurent From: claurent@pipeline.com (Camila Laurent) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct06.095222.9808@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 09:52:22 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Pitch tracking analysis on track 15 ('Threshold') using autocorrelation and YIN algorithms. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Camila Laurent US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Do not worship the copy." From fkowalski@kiae.su Tue Oct 08 01:06:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!fkowalski From: fkowalski@kiae.su (Freya Kowalski) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct08.010622.7615@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 01:06:22 GMT References: <1996Oct06.095222.9808@pipeline.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct06.095222.9808@pipeline.com>, claurent@pipeline.com (Camila Laurent) writes: > Pitch tracking analysis on track 15 ('Threshold') using autocorrelation and YIN algorithms. > 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. -- Freya Kowalski -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From dlee@titech.ac.jp Tue Oct 08 14:35:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!dlee From: dlee@titech.ac.jp (Dong-hyun Lee) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct08.143522.1173@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 14:35:22 GMT References: <1996Oct06.095222.9808@pipeline.com> <1996Oct08.010622.7615@kiae.su> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct08.010622.7615@kiae.su>, fkowalski@kiae.su (Freya Kowalski) writes: > Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. Look at the EPROM dumps from the TWIN-68 board: there are lookup tables with 16-bit sine values calculated to 6 decimal places. -- Dong-hyun Lee -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."