From egarcia@kth.se Mon May 01 06:39:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!egarcia From: egarcia@kth.se (Élodie García) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995May01.063922.9654@kth.se> Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 06:39:22 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se 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. 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. -- Élodie García Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------ From oreyes@purdue.edu Mon May 01 21:26:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!purdue!oreyes From: oreyes@purdue.edu (Olga Reyes) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995May01.212622.3049@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 21:26:22 GMT References: <1995May01.063922.9654@kth.se> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995May01.063922.9654@kth.se>, egarcia@kth.se (Élodie García) 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. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Olga Reyes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mhernandez@mindspring.com Mon May 01 23:04:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!mhernandez From: mhernandez@mindspring.com (Mathieu Hernández) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995May01.230422.8849@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 23:04:22 GMT References: <1995May01.063922.9654@kth.se> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May01.063922.9654@kth.se>, egarcia@kth.se (Élodie García) 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. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Mathieu Hernández -- MindSpring Enterprises "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From egonzalez@cmu.edu Tue May 02 23:05:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!egonzalez From: egonzalez@cmu.edu (Élodie González) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995May02.230522.5722@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 23:05:22 GMT References: <1995May01.063922.9654@kth.se> <1995May01.212622.3049@purdue.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995May01.212622.3049@purdue.edu>, oreyes@purdue.edu (Olga Reyes) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. -- === Élodie González === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From tsmirnov@illinois.edu Thu May 04 22:25:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!tsmirnov From: tsmirnov@illinois.edu (Tobias Smirnov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Question: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995May04.222522.1088@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 22:25:22 GMT References: <1995May01.063922.9654@kth.se> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995May01.063922.9654@kth.se>, egarcia@kth.se (Élodie García) 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. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. -- Tobias Smirnov "Row 14. No joke." Atari Falcon 030 / TOS 4.04