From ekang@stanford.edu Wed Jul 10 17:36:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!ekang From: ekang@stanford.edu (Emi Kang) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul10.173653.1974@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:36:53 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu 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. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Emi Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From kperez@purdue.edu Thu Jul 11 06:10:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!purdue!kperez From: kperez@purdue.edu (Kenji Pérez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul11.061053.2353@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 06:10:53 GMT References: <1996Jul10.173653.1974@stanford.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul10.173653.1974@stanford.edu>, ekang@stanford.edu (Emi Kang) 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. -- Kenji Pérez "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1 From lmoreno@netcom.com Fri Jul 12 23:38:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!lmoreno From: lmoreno@netcom.com (Lars Moreno) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul12.233853.9226@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:38:53 GMT References: <1996Jul10.173653.1974@stanford.edu> <1996Jul11.061053.2353@purdue.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul11.061053.2353@purdue.edu>, kperez@purdue.edu (Kenji Pérez) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- === Lars Moreno === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From bjohansson@rwth-aachen.de Mon Jul 15 00:54:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!bjohansson From: bjohansson@rwth-aachen.de (Brian Johansson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul15.005453.6871@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:54:53 GMT References: <1996Jul10.173653.1974@stanford.edu> <1996Jul11.061053.2353@purdue.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Jul11.061053.2353@purdue.edu>, kperez@purdue.edu (Kenji Pérez) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. -- Brian Johansson -- RWTH Aachen Informatik "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From sjohansson@earthlink.net Tue Jul 16 17:57:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!sjohansson From: sjohansson@earthlink.net (Sergei Johansson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jul16.175753.2532@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:57:53 GMT References: <1996Jul10.173653.1974@stanford.edu> <1996Jul11.061053.2353@purdue.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Jul11.061053.2353@purdue.edu>, kperez@purdue.edu (Kenji Pérez) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Sergei Johansson -- EarthLink Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"