From egirard@kth.se Tue Sep 24 05:55:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!egirard From: egirard@kth.se (Élodie Girard) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Sep24.055532.2632@kth.se> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 05:55:32 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 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. -- Élodie Girard *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From ksanchez@purdue.edu Tue Sep 24 21:47:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!purdue!ksanchez From: ksanchez@purdue.edu (Kenji Sánchez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Sep24.214732.4713@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:47:32 GMT References: <1996Sep24.055532.2632@kth.se> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Sep24.055532.2632@kth.se>, egirard@kth.se (Élodie Girard) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Kenji Sánchez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From mito@inria.fr Thu Sep 26 15:36:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!mito From: mito@inria.fr (Mei Ito) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Sep26.153632.4246@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:36:32 GMT References: <1996Sep24.055532.2632@kth.se> <1996Sep24.214732.4713@purdue.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Sep24.214732.4713@purdue.edu>, ksanchez@purdue.edu (Kenji Sánchez) 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. -- Mei Ito Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ykim@uu.net Fri Sep 27 02:06:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uu!ykim From: ykim@uu.net (Yuki Kim) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Sep27.020632.8441@uu.net> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 02:06:32 GMT References: <1996Sep24.055532.2632@kth.se> <1996Sep24.214732.4713@purdue.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Sep24.214732.4713@purdue.edu>, ksanchez@purdue.edu (Kenji Sánchez) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Yuki Kim Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.