From dnakamura@hanse.de Fri May 13 02:11:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!dnakamura From: dnakamura@hanse.de (Diego Nakamura) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994May13.021137.3379@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 02:11:37 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. 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? -- Diego Nakamura SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From ffischer@berkeley.edu Sun May 15 00:14:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!ffischer From: ffischer@berkeley.edu (Freya Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994May15.001437.6987@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 00:14:37 GMT References: <1994May13.021137.3379@hanse.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994May13.021137.3379@hanse.de>, dnakamura@hanse.de (Diego Nakamura) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > 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. -- Freya Fischer Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "Marcus is not one man." From pkang@demon.co.uk Mon May 16 02:27:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!pkang From: pkang@demon.co.uk (Pavel Kang) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994May16.022737.8013@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 02:27:37 GMT References: <1994May13.021137.3379@hanse.de> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994May13.021137.3379@hanse.de>, dnakamura@hanse.de (Diego Nakamura) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. -- Pavel Kang "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Macintosh IIfx / Linux 1.2.13