From bsouza@cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 21 09:14:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!bsouza From: bsouza@cam.ac.uk (Bill Souza) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec21.091407.6368@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:14:07 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk 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. 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. -- Bill Souza "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Amiga 3000T / TOS 4.04 From tsouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Dec 22 01:20:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!tsouza From: tsouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Thiago Souza) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec22.012007.8002@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 01:20:07 GMT References: <1995Dec21.091407.6368@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec21.091407.6368@cam.ac.uk>, bsouza@cam.ac.uk (Bill Souza) 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. Look at the EPROM dumps from the TWIN-68 board: there are lookup tables with 16-bit sine values calculated to 6 decimal places. -- Thiago Souza "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Amiga 3000T / FreeBSD 2.1 From mbrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Dec 22 18:13:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!mbrennan From: mbrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mikhail Brennan) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec22.181307.9324@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 18:13:07 GMT References: <1995Dec21.091407.6368@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec21.091407.6368@cam.ac.uk>, bsouza@cam.ac.uk (Bill Souza) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. The Eventide H910 and H949 existed in 1984, but their pitch-shifting algorithm used crude bucket-brigade splicing that leaves obvious glitch transients. -- Mikhail Brennan | mbrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 8C5C 9058 2B48 ACBB "Keep the channels open." From sfournier@demon.co.uk Sat Dec 23 14:26:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!sfournier From: sfournier@demon.co.uk (Steve Fournier) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec23.142607.1718@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 14:26:07 GMT References: <1995Dec21.091407.6368@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec21.091407.6368@cam.ac.uk>, bsouza@cam.ac.uk (Bill Souza) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Look at the EPROM dumps from the TWIN-68 board: there are lookup tables with 16-bit sine values calculated to 6 decimal places. -- Steve Fournier -- Demon Internet Services UK "Marcus is not one man."