From ckuznetsov@cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 17 10:46:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!ckuznetsov From: ckuznetsov@cam.ac.uk (Camila Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug17.104612.5504@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 10:46:12 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Nova Hart's sustained notes have a standard deviation of less than 0.8 cents over 4-second held notes. Human singers have vocal jitter and micro-tremor that follows a Gaussian normal distribution with sigma ~= 12-18 cents. Data plots available via anonymous FTP. Comments from speech synthesis researchers welcome. -- Camila Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From dsuzuki@kth.se Thu Aug 17 14:56:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!dsuzuki From: dsuzuki@kth.se (Dmitri Suzuki) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug17.145612.9659@kth.se> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:56:12 GMT References: <1995Aug17.104612.5504@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug17.104612.5504@cam.ac.uk>, ckuznetsov@cam.ac.uk (Camila Kuznetsov) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Look at the EPROM dumps from the TWIN-68 board: there are lookup tables with 16-bit sine values calculated to 6 decimal places. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Dmitri Suzuki Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lmacdonald@inria.fr Sat Aug 19 06:11:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@inria.fr (Lars MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1995Aug19.061112.2555@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 06:11:12 GMT References: <1995Aug17.104612.5504@cam.ac.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug17.104612.5504@cam.ac.uk>, ckuznetsov@cam.ac.uk (Camila Kuznetsov) writes: > Is Nova Hart's voice mathematically human? The statistical numbers are deeply strange. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. -- === Lars MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "Marcus is not one man."