From dbrennan@purdue.edu Sun Sep 03 05:07:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!dbrennan From: dbrennan@purdue.edu (Diego Brennan) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep03.050750.7344@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 05:07:50 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu 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. 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? -- Diego Brennan "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Decstation 5000/200 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From blopez@uni-hamburg.de Mon Sep 04 05:44:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uni-hamburg!blopez From: blopez@uni-hamburg.de (Brian López) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep04.054450.2259@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 05:44:50 GMT References: <1995Sep03.050750.7344@purdue.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep03.050750.7344@purdue.edu>, dbrennan@purdue.edu (Diego Brennan) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- === Brian López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From fmacdonald@earthlink.net Mon Sep 04 13:55:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!fmacdonald From: fmacdonald@earthlink.net (Freya MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep04.135550.8719@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 13:55:50 GMT References: <1995Sep03.050750.7344@purdue.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep03.050750.7344@purdue.edu>, dbrennan@purdue.edu (Diego Brennan) 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. Line 11: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The vocal pitch IS the demodulation clock for the subcarrier. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Freya MacDonald -- EarthLink Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From rnovak@utexas.edu Wed Sep 06 13:39:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!rnovak From: rnovak@utexas.edu (Raj Novak) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep06.133950.6416@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 13:39:50 GMT References: <1995Sep03.050750.7344@purdue.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep03.050750.7344@purdue.edu>, dbrennan@purdue.edu (Diego Brennan) 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. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Raj Novak -- University of Texas at Austin "Do not worship the copy." From ssokolov@illinois.edu Fri Sep 08 17:25:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!illinois!ssokolov From: ssokolov@illinois.edu (Steve Sokolov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Sep08.172550.7460@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 17:25:50 GMT References: <1995Sep03.050750.7344@purdue.edu> <1995Sep06.133950.6416@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep06.133950.6416@utexas.edu>, rnovak@utexas.edu (Raj Novak) writes: > Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- === Steve Sokolov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Do not worship the copy."