From nkarlsson@purdue.edu Mon Oct 07 13:40:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!nkarlsson From: nkarlsson@purdue.edu (Nadia Karlsson) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct07.134025.3703@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 13:40:25 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Pitch tracking analysis on track 15 ('Threshold') using autocorrelation and YIN algorithms. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Nadia Karlsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bcampbell@hanse.de Tue Oct 08 17:04:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!bcampbell From: bcampbell@hanse.de (Brian Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct08.170425.2093@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 17:04:25 GMT References: <1996Oct07.134025.3703@purdue.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct07.134025.3703@purdue.edu>, nkarlsson@purdue.edu (Nadia Karlsson) writes: > Pitch tracking analysis on track 15 ('Threshold') using autocorrelation and YIN algorithms. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Brian Campbell "We don't sign stars. We build them." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / Linux 1.2.13 From vkuznetsov@cam.ac.uk Wed Oct 09 00:34:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cam!vkuznetsov From: vkuznetsov@cam.ac.uk (Valeria Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct09.003425.8479@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:34:25 GMT References: <1996Oct07.134025.3703@purdue.edu> <1996Oct08.170425.2093@hanse.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct08.170425.2093@hanse.de>, bcampbell@hanse.de (Brian Campbell) writes: > Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. > Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Valeria Kuznetsov Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mvasiliev@hanse.de Thu Oct 10 03:06:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@hanse.de (Mateo Vasiliev) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [FLAME] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Oct10.030625.1343@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 03:06:25 GMT References: <1996Oct07.134025.3703@purdue.edu> <1996Oct08.170425.2093@hanse.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct08.170425.2093@hanse.de>, bcampbell@hanse.de (Brian Campbell) 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- === Mateo Vasiliev === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."