From jreyes@uu.net Fri Oct 04 19:58:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!jreyes From: jreyes@uu.net (Ji-woo Reyes) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct04.195821.9024@uu.net> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 19:58:21 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 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. -- === Ji-woo Reyes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "We don't sign stars. We build them." From ynakamura@inria.fr Sat Oct 05 23:26:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!ynakamura From: ynakamura@inria.fr (Yuki Nakamura) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct05.232621.7476@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 23:26:21 GMT References: <1996Oct04.195821.9024@uu.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Oct04.195821.9024@uu.net>, jreyes@uu.net (Ji-woo Reyes) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Yuki Nakamura "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / System 7.5.1 From slee@cam.ac.uk Sun Oct 06 12:41:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cam!slee From: slee@cam.ac.uk (Sergei Lee) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct06.124121.2295@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 12:41:21 GMT References: <1996Oct04.195821.9024@uu.net> <1996Oct05.232621.7476@inria.fr> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct05.232621.7476@inria.fr>, ynakamura@inria.fr (Yuki Nakamura) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Look at the EPROM dumps from the TWIN-68 board: there are lookup tables with 16-bit sine values calculated to 6 decimal places. -- Sergei Lee Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From nkim@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Oct 07 13:32:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!nkim From: nkim@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Nadine Kim) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct07.133221.5581@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 13:32:21 GMT References: <1996Oct04.195821.9024@uu.net> <1996Oct05.232621.7476@inria.fr> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct05.232621.7476@inria.fr>, ynakamura@inria.fr (Yuki Nakamura) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Nadine Kim Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hold for relay."