From asilva@kiae.su Tue Jul 04 03:05:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!asilva From: asilva@kiae.su (Anja Silva) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jul04.030532.8228@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 03:05:32 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Anja Silva Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tbrennan@netcom.com Tue Jul 04 04:48:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!tbrennan From: tbrennan@netcom.com (Tyler Brennan) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jul04.044832.2698@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 04:48:32 GMT References: <1995Jul04.030532.8228@kiae.su> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul04.030532.8228@kiae.su>, asilva@kiae.su (Anja Silva) 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Tyler Brennan *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From mivanov@pacbell.net Thu Jul 06 01:27:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pacbell!mivanov From: mivanov@pacbell.net (Mathieu Ivanov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Jul06.012732.7053@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 01:27:32 GMT References: <1995Jul04.030532.8228@kiae.su> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul04.030532.8228@kiae.su>, asilva@kiae.su (Anja Silva) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- === Mathieu Ivanov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."