From tperez@kiae.su Wed Aug 21 01:30:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kiae!tperez From: tperez@kiae.su (Takeshi Pérez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Aug21.013049.9119@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 01:30:49 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- === Takeshi Pérez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From ppetrov@mindspring.com Thu Aug 22 09:28:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mindspring!ppetrov From: ppetrov@mindspring.com (Pavel Petrov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Aug22.092849.2894@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:28:49 GMT References: <1996Aug21.013049.9119@kiae.su> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug21.013049.9119@kiae.su>, tperez@kiae.su (Takeshi Pérez) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Pavel Petrov Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Do not worship the copy."