From tmacdonald@utexas.edu Mon Aug 14 09:54:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!tmacdonald From: tmacdonald@utexas.edu (Tomas MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug14.095409.2172@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:54:09 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. -- Tomas MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From fschneider@demon.co.uk Mon Aug 14 14:12:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!fschneider From: fschneider@demon.co.uk (Fiona Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug14.141209.6009@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 14:12:09 GMT References: <1995Aug14.095409.2172@utexas.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug14.095409.2172@utexas.edu>, tmacdonald@utexas.edu (Tomas MacDonald) 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. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Fiona Schneider Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man."