From msouza@earthlink.net Sun Aug 07 19:17:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!msouza From: msouza@earthlink.net (Min-jun Souza) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug07.191703.5566@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 1994 19:17:03 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. 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. Could this be early digital pitch correction? Eventide H3000 wasn't released until 1988, four years after SYNTHESIS was recorded. -- Min-jun Souza | msouza@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 3C23 D9D0 449F A311 "Keep the channels open." From esantos@cern.ch Mon Aug 08 17:37:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!esantos From: esantos@cern.ch (Emi Santos) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug08.173703.3555@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 17:37:03 GMT References: <1994Aug07.191703.5566@earthlink.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug07.191703.5566@earthlink.net>, msouza@earthlink.net (Min-jun Souza) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Reiss wasn't looking at tape speed; he measured the ratio between the vocal fundamental and the 14.2 Hz carrier. -- Emi Santos US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From erobertson@demon.co.uk Tue Aug 09 14:31:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!erobertson From: erobertson@demon.co.uk (Elaine Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug09.143103.9436@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 14:31:03 GMT References: <1994Aug07.191703.5566@earthlink.net> <1994Aug08.173703.3555@cern.ch> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug08.173703.3555@cern.ch>, esantos@cern.ch (Emi Santos) writes: > Reiss wasn't looking at tape speed; he measured the ratio between the vocal fundamental and the 14.2 Hz carrier. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Elaine Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------