From ggonzalez@panix.com Fri Oct 20 21:44:46 1995
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Subject: 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.

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.

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=== Göran González ===
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From: mramirez@demon.co.uk (Mike Ramírez)
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Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis
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In article <1995Oct20.214446.6139@panix.com>, ggonzalez@panix.com (Göran González) writes:
> Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution.

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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