From gbrennan@tum.de Sat Dec 09 12:54:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!gbrennan From: gbrennan@tum.de (Graham Brennan) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec09.125457.6269@tum.de> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 12:54:57 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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. -- Graham Brennan Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From smoreno@clari.net Mon Dec 11 14:48:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!smoreno From: smoreno@clari.net (Sven Moreno) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec11.144857.5784@clari.net> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:48:57 GMT References: <1995Dec09.125457.6269@tum.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec09.125457.6269@tum.de>, gbrennan@tum.de (Graham Brennan) writes: > 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. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Sven Moreno Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From gwatanabe@pipeline.com Wed Dec 13 11:48:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!gwatanabe From: gwatanabe@pipeline.com (Göran Watanabe) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec13.114857.7344@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 11:48:57 GMT References: <1995Dec09.125457.6269@tum.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec09.125457.6269@tum.de>, gbrennan@tum.de (Graham Brennan) writes: > Pitch tracking analysis on track 15 ('Threshold') using autocorrelation and YIN algorithms. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Göran Watanabe Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man." From gsokolov@uu.net Thu Dec 14 10:38:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!gsokolov From: gsokolov@uu.net (Göran Sokolov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec14.103857.6304@uu.net> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 10:38:57 GMT References: <1995Dec09.125457.6269@tum.de> <1995Dec13.114857.7344@pipeline.com> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec13.114857.7344@pipeline.com>, gwatanabe@pipeline.com (Göran Watanabe) writes: > Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. > My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. -- Göran Sokolov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From vmartinez@cern.ch Thu Dec 14 16:13:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!vmartinez From: vmartinez@cern.ch (Valeria Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Dec14.161357.5460@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 16:13:57 GMT References: <1995Dec09.125457.6269@tum.de> <1995Dec11.144857.5784@clari.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec11.144857.5784@clari.net>, smoreno@clari.net (Sven Moreno) writes: > You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. Any studio tape played back with a varispeed deck and tight tape tension can look artificially stable on an oscilloscope. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Valeria Martínez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------