From amoreno@panix.com Tue Dec 17 10:50:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!panix!amoreno From: amoreno@panix.com (Aiko Moreno) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Dec17.105031.1421@panix.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:50:31 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Aiko Moreno | amoreno@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: E62F 1B4C C318 04D0 "Keep the channels open." From crobertson@cern.ch Wed Dec 18 23:37:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!crobertson From: crobertson@cern.ch (Callum Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Dec18.233731.4914@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:37:31 GMT References: <1996Dec17.105031.1421@panix.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec17.105031.1421@panix.com>, amoreno@panix.com (Aiko Moreno) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Callum Robertson | crobertson@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: 44BD EDC1 FB73 B4D4 "Keep the channels open." From jgarcia@pacbell.net Thu Dec 19 18:28:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!jgarcia From: jgarcia@pacbell.net (Ji-woo García) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Dec19.182831.4872@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:28:31 GMT References: <1996Dec17.105031.1421@panix.com> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec17.105031.1421@panix.com>, amoreno@panix.com (Aiko Moreno) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Line 11: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The vocal pitch IS the demodulation clock for the subcarrier. -- Ji-woo García Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From aivanov@kth.se Thu Dec 19 20:52:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!aivanov From: aivanov@kth.se (Amy Ivanov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Dec19.205231.8647@kth.se> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:52:31 GMT References: <1996Dec17.105031.1421@panix.com> <1996Dec19.182831.4872@pacbell.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec19.182831.4872@pacbell.net>, jgarcia@pacbell.net (Ji-woo García) writes: > Line 11: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The vocal pitch IS the demodulation clock for the subcarrier. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Amy Ivanov | aivanov@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 79AE E4BA CDCC A6C4 "Keep the channels open." From shernandez@utexas.edu Sat Dec 21 11:03:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!shernandez From: shernandez@utexas.edu (Seo-yeon Hernández) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Dec21.110331.9055@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:03:31 GMT References: <1996Dec17.105031.1421@panix.com> <1996Dec19.182831.4872@pacbell.net> <1996Dec19.205231.8647@kth.se> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec19.205231.8647@kth.se>, aivanov@kth.se (Amy Ivanov) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. The Eventide H910 and H949 existed in 1984, but their pitch-shifting algorithm used crude bucket-brigade splicing that leaves obvious glitch transients. -- === Seo-yeon Hernández === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."