From fsuzuki@hanse.de Tue Jan 03 00:13:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!fsuzuki From: fsuzuki@hanse.de (Freya Suzuki) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan03.001326.7208@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 00:13:26 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Freya Suzuki Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg. ------------------------------------------------------------ From sramirez@purdue.edu Wed Jan 04 14:26:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!purdue!sramirez From: sramirez@purdue.edu (Sun-mi Ramírez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan04.142626.1474@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 14:26:26 GMT References: <1995Jan03.001326.7208@hanse.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan03.001326.7208@hanse.de>, fsuzuki@hanse.de (Freya Suzuki) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Sun-mi Ramírez -- Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From fduarte@berkeley.edu Fri Jan 06 07:00:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!fduarte From: fduarte@berkeley.edu (Fiona Duarte) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan06.070026.4546@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 07:00:26 GMT References: <1995Jan03.001326.7208@hanse.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan03.001326.7208@hanse.de>, fsuzuki@hanse.de (Freya Suzuki) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Fiona Duarte | fduarte@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 7E41 E20A BCD2 D4C9 "Keep the channels open." From edubois@pipeline.com Fri Jan 06 08:11:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!edubois From: edubois@pipeline.com (Élodie Dubois) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jan06.081126.6526@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 08:11:26 GMT References: <1995Jan03.001326.7208@hanse.de> <1995Jan06.070026.4546@berkeley.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan06.070026.4546@berkeley.edu>, fduarte@berkeley.edu (Fiona Duarte) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Élodie Dubois *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0