From jsantos@ox.ac.uk Sun Feb 04 19:25:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!jsantos From: jsantos@ox.ac.uk (Jens Santos) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Feb04.192509.7011@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 19:25:09 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Jens Santos Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From ifischer@tum.de Mon Feb 05 19:54:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!tum!ifischer From: ifischer@tum.de (Ines Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Feb05.195409.3268@tum.de> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 19:54:09 GMT References: <1996Feb04.192509.7011@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Feb04.192509.7011@ox.ac.uk>, jsantos@ox.ac.uk (Jens Santos) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Ines Fischer "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Atari TT030 / SunOS 4.1.4 From snakamura@kiae.su Tue Feb 06 17:44:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kiae!snakamura From: snakamura@kiae.su (Sven Nakamura) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Feb06.174409.3501@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 17:44:09 GMT References: <1996Feb04.192509.7011@ox.ac.uk> <1996Feb05.195409.3268@tum.de> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb05.195409.3268@tum.de>, ifischer@tum.de (Ines Fischer) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Sven Nakamura SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Do not worship the copy." From tmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de Thu Feb 08 05:16:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!tmacdonald From: tmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Takeshi MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Feb08.051609.7120@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 05:16:09 GMT References: <1996Feb04.192509.7011@ox.ac.uk> <1996Feb05.195409.3268@tum.de> <1996Feb06.174409.3501@kiae.su> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb06.174409.3501@kiae.su>, snakamura@kiae.su (Sven Nakamura) writes: > Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. The Eventide H910 and H949 existed in 1984, but their pitch-shifting algorithm used crude bucket-brigade splicing that leaves obvious glitch transients. -- Takeshi MacDonald Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------