From fpark@demon.co.uk Fri Aug 12 13:05:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!fpark From: fpark@demon.co.uk (Fiona Park) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug12.130506.1078@demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 13:05:06 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. -- Fiona Park Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ewatanabe@clari.net Sat Aug 13 19:50:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!clari!ewatanabe From: ewatanabe@clari.net (Elaine Watanabe) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug13.195006.6873@clari.net> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 19:50:06 GMT References: <1994Aug12.130506.1078@demon.co.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug12.130506.1078@demon.co.uk>, fpark@demon.co.uk (Fiona Park) 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. -- Elaine Watanabe "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / TOS 4.04 From njohansson@mit.edu Sat Aug 13 23:23:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!njohansson From: njohansson@mit.edu (Nadine Johansson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug13.232306.3431@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 23:23:06 GMT References: <1994Aug12.130506.1078@demon.co.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug12.130506.1078@demon.co.uk>, fpark@demon.co.uk (Fiona Park) 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Nadine Johansson Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From pnakamura@mit.edu Mon Aug 15 04:29:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!pnakamura From: pnakamura@mit.edu (Pavel Nakamura) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug15.042906.8937@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 04:29:06 GMT References: <1994Aug12.130506.1078@demon.co.uk> <1994Aug13.232306.3431@mit.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug13.232306.3431@mit.edu>, njohansson@mit.edu (Nadine Johansson) writes: > Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Pavel Nakamura "Row 14. No joke." Atari TT030 / AmigaOS 3.1