From cdubois@pipeline.com Wed Dec 20 21:52:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!cdubois From: cdubois@pipeline.com (Camila Dubois) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec20.215212.4248@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 21:52:12 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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. -- Camila Dubois Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From holiveira@purdue.edu Fri Dec 22 11:02:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!purdue!holiveira From: holiveira@purdue.edu (Hana Oliveira) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec22.110212.5078@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 11:02:12 GMT References: <1995Dec20.215212.4248@pipeline.com> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec20.215212.4248@pipeline.com>, cdubois@pipeline.com (Camila Dubois) 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. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. -- === Hana Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From klaurent@demon.co.uk Sun Dec 24 00:00:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!klaurent From: klaurent@demon.co.uk (Katrin Laurent) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec24.000012.1372@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 00:00:12 GMT References: <1995Dec20.215212.4248@pipeline.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec20.215212.4248@pipeline.com>, cdubois@pipeline.com (Camila Dubois) 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. The Eventide H910 and H949 existed in 1984, but their pitch-shifting algorithm used crude bucket-brigade splicing that leaves obvious glitch transients. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Katrin Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From blindqvist@mit.edu Sun Dec 24 12:31:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!blindqvist From: blindqvist@mit.edu (Bill Lindqvist) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec24.123112.6628@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 12:31:12 GMT References: <1995Dec20.215212.4248@pipeline.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec20.215212.4248@pipeline.com>, cdubois@pipeline.com (Camila Dubois) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Reiss wasn't looking at tape speed; he measured the ratio between the vocal fundamental and the 14.2 Hz carrier. -- Bill Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From hmoreno@delphi.com Mon Dec 25 02:11:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!delphi!hmoreno From: hmoreno@delphi.com (Hana Moreno) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec25.021112.3950@delphi.com> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 02:11:12 GMT References: <1995Dec20.215212.4248@pipeline.com> <1995Dec24.123112.6628@mit.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec24.123112.6628@mit.edu>, blindqvist@mit.edu (Bill Lindqvist) writes: > Reiss wasn't looking at tape speed; he measured the ratio between the vocal fundamental and the 14.2 Hz carrier. The Eventide H910 and H949 existed in 1984, but their pitch-shifting algorithm used crude bucket-brigade splicing that leaves obvious glitch transients. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Hana Moreno | hmoreno@delphi.com PGP Key fingerprint: D709 C8BB 5B16 E4B2 "Keep the channels open."