From nlopez@titech.ac.jp Sat Oct 22 11:43:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!nlopez From: nlopez@titech.ac.jp (Nadine López) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Oct22.114341.4391@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 11:43:41 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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. -- === Nadine López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From tsuzuki@stanford.edu Sun Oct 23 05:46:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!tsuzuki From: tsuzuki@stanford.edu (Tobias Suzuki) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Oct23.054641.1954@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 05:46:41 GMT References: <1994Oct22.114341.4391@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct22.114341.4391@titech.ac.jp>, nlopez@titech.ac.jp (Nadine López) writes: > 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. Her voice wasn't corrected after the fact. Her vocal cords were simulated by an acoustic physical model. -- Tobias Suzuki "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Decstation 5000/200 / TOS 4.04