From skang@delphi.com Tue Feb 07 18:12:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!delphi!skang From: skang@delphi.com (Seo-yeon Kang) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb07.181225.7277@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 18:12:25 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Could this be early digital pitch correction? Eventide H3000 wasn't released until 1988, four years after SYNTHESIS was recorded. -- Seo-yeon Kang Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "Hold for relay." From rsantos@uni-hamburg.de Wed Feb 08 03:05:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!rsantos From: rsantos@uni-hamburg.de (Raj Santos) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Feb08.030525.6766@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 03:05:25 GMT References: <1995Feb07.181225.7277@delphi.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb07.181225.7277@delphi.com>, skang@delphi.com (Seo-yeon Kang) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Raj Santos Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------