From csato@cam.ac.uk Sun Mar 17 04:37:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cam!csato From: csato@cam.ac.uk (Callum Sato) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Mar17.043755.8255@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 04:37:55 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. 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. Could this be early digital pitch correction? Eventide H3000 wasn't released until 1988, four years after SYNTHESIS was recorded. -- Callum Sato Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "Marcus is not one man." From anakamura@demon.co.uk Sun Mar 17 19:48:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!anakamura From: anakamura@demon.co.uk (Anton Nakamura) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [INFO] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Mar17.194855.8718@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:48:55 GMT References: <1996Mar17.043755.8255@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar17.043755.8255@cam.ac.uk>, csato@cam.ac.uk (Callum Sato) writes: > Attempted to replicate Dr. Anton Reiss's 1989 paper on Nova Hart's vocal pitch distribution. > In statistical terms, her pitch deviation sits 7.1 sigma outside the normal human vocal distribution. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- === Anton Nakamura === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "We don't sign stars. We build them."