From ntanaka@delphi.com Wed Sep 13 02:04:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!delphi!ntanaka From: ntanaka@delphi.com (Nadine Tanaka) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Data: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep13.020413.5207@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 02:04:13 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com 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. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Nadine Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From mpopov@hanse.de Wed Sep 13 15:17:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!mpopov From: mpopov@hanse.de (Matthias Popov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Data: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep13.151713.3401@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 15:17:13 GMT References: <1995Sep13.020413.5207@delphi.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep13.020413.5207@delphi.com>, ntanaka@delphi.com (Nadine Tanaka) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Matthias Popov US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From lreyes@demon.co.uk Thu Sep 14 10:30:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!lreyes From: lreyes@demon.co.uk (Lisa Reyes) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Data: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep14.103013.5567@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:30:13 GMT References: <1995Sep13.020413.5207@delphi.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep13.020413.5207@delphi.com>, ntanaka@delphi.com (Nadine Tanaka) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Line 11: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The vocal pitch IS the demodulation clock for the subcarrier. -- Lisa Reyes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From rsokolov@mindspring.com Fri Sep 15 16:06:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mindspring!rsokolov From: rsokolov@mindspring.com (Raj Sokolov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Data: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep15.160613.4377@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 16:06:13 GMT References: <1995Sep13.020413.5207@delphi.com> <1995Sep13.151713.3401@hanse.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep13.151713.3401@hanse.de>, mpopov@hanse.de (Matthias Popov) writes: > Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Raj Sokolov | rsokolov@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: 5DE2 37AA E408 C884 "Keep the channels open."