From sito@hanse.de Mon Aug 05 04:11:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!sito From: sito@hanse.de (Sergei Ito) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Aug05.041154.7379@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 04:11:54 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. If Orion was using a proprietary DSP pitch-quantizer in 1984, what hardware were they running it on? -- Sergei Ito "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Atari TT030 / Linux 1.2.13 From gokonkwo@inria.fr Tue Aug 06 22:42:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!gokonkwo From: gokonkwo@inria.fr (Göran Okonkwo) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Discussion: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1996Aug06.224254.1203@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 22:42:54 GMT References: <1996Aug05.041154.7379@hanse.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug05.041154.7379@hanse.de>, sito@hanse.de (Sergei Ito) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. > Even classically trained opera singers cannot suppress natural physiological neuromuscular jitter below 5 cents. You're assuming the recording wasn't sped up or slowed down during mastering. -- Göran Okonkwo US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."