From vsokolov@mit.edu Wed Aug 09 23:35:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!vsokolov From: vsokolov@mit.edu (Valeria Sokolov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug09.233535.1408@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 23:35:35 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Valeria Sokolov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mmartinez@kiae.su Thu Aug 10 03:33:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!mmartinez From: mmartinez@kiae.su (Morag Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug10.033335.2026@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 03:33:35 GMT References: <1995Aug09.233535.1408@mit.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug09.233535.1408@mit.edu>, vsokolov@mit.edu (Valeria Sokolov) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Morag Martínez Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Hold for relay." From pnovak@netcom.com Fri Aug 11 00:55:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!pnovak From: pnovak@netcom.com (Pavel Novak) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug11.005535.9876@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 00:55:35 GMT References: <1995Aug09.233535.1408@mit.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug09.233535.1408@mit.edu>, vsokolov@mit.edu (Valeria Sokolov) 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. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Pavel Novak Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------