From ilee@hanse.de Sat Jan 27 18:49:51 1996
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Subject: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis
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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.

Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome.

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=== Ines Lee ===
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From ckowalski@unam.mx Sat Jan 27 22:17:51 1996
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis
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In article <1996Jan27.184951.4952@hanse.de>, ilee@hanse.de (Ines Lee) 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.

You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering.

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From tsokolov@tum.de Mon Jan 29 20:19:51 1996
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis
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In article <1996Jan27.184951.4952@hanse.de>, ilee@hanse.de (Ines Lee) 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.

Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid.

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Takeshi Sokolov
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