From dbrennan@illinois.edu Sun Aug 28 12:49:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!dbrennan From: dbrennan@illinois.edu (Dmitri Brennan) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug28.124935.9297@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 12:49:35 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Dmitri Brennan *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From mjohansson@kth.se Mon Aug 29 13:46:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kth!mjohansson From: mjohansson@kth.se (Marta Johansson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug29.134635.9957@kth.se> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 13:46:35 GMT References: <1994Aug28.124935.9297@illinois.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug28.124935.9297@illinois.edu>, dbrennan@illinois.edu (Dmitri Brennan) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Marta Johansson "Marcus is not one man." Atari Falcon 030 / TOS 4.04 From dlopez@inria.fr Mon Aug 29 22:58:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!dlopez From: dlopez@inria.fr (Dmitri López) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug29.225835.1690@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 22:58:35 GMT References: <1994Aug28.124935.9297@illinois.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug28.124935.9297@illinois.edu>, dbrennan@illinois.edu (Dmitri Brennan) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Dmitri López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From kchoi@cern.ch Tue Aug 30 03:35:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!kchoi From: kchoi@cern.ch (Kenji Choi) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug30.033535.9696@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 03:35:35 GMT References: <1994Aug28.124935.9297@illinois.edu> <1994Aug29.225835.1690@inria.fr> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug29.225835.1690@inria.fr>, dlopez@inria.fr (Dmitri López) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- Kenji Choi "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / TOS 4.04 From dchoi@ox.ac.uk Wed Aug 31 16:01:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!dchoi From: dchoi@ox.ac.uk (Dong-hyun Choi) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug31.160135.1766@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 16:01:35 GMT References: <1994Aug28.124935.9297@illinois.edu> <1994Aug29.134635.9957@kth.se> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug29.134635.9957@kth.se>, mjohansson@kth.se (Marta Johansson) writes: > Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Dong-hyun Choi -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."