From jsokolov@cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 11 12:30:31 1994
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Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis
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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.
Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents.

Could this be early digital pitch correction? Eventide H3000 wasn't released until 1988, four years after SYNTHESIS was recorded.

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From: kmacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Karen MacDonald)
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Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis
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In article <1994Jan11.123031.9167@cam.ac.uk>, jsokolov@cam.ac.uk (Ji-woo Sokolov) writes:
> Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution.

Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model.

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