From spark@cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 09 12:27:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!spark From: spark@cam.ac.uk (Sven Park) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jan09.122709.5428@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 12:27:09 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Sven Park Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From lgirard@hanse.de Wed Jan 10 12:32:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!lgirard From: lgirard@hanse.de (Liam Girard) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Jan10.123209.2580@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:32:09 GMT References: <1996Jan09.122709.5428@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan09.122709.5428@cam.ac.uk>, spark@cam.ac.uk (Sven Park) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Line 11: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The vocal pitch IS the demodulation clock for the subcarrier. -- Liam Girard Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."