From mperez@inria.fr Sat Aug 06 04:01:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!mperez From: mperez@inria.fr (Morag Pérez) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Observation: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug06.040106.7129@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 1994 04:01:06 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. -- Morag Pérez -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Marcus is not one man." From vsuzuki@tum.de Sun Aug 07 01:11:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!vsuzuki From: vsuzuki@tum.de (Valeria Suzuki) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Observation: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug07.011106.7201@tum.de> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 1994 01:11:06 GMT References: <1994Aug06.040106.7129@inria.fr> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Aug06.040106.7129@inria.fr>, mperez@inria.fr (Morag Pérez) 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. Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Valeria Suzuki *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From kmoreno@ox.ac.uk Mon Aug 08 21:19:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!kmoreno From: kmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Kenji Moreno) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Observation: Replicating Anton Reiss's 7.1-sigma pitch variance analysis Message-ID: <1994Aug08.211906.1847@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 21:19:06 GMT References: <1994Aug06.040106.7129@inria.fr> <1994Aug07.011106.7201@tum.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug07.011106.7201@tum.de>, vsuzuki@tum.de (Valeria Suzuki) writes: > Dr. Reiss was a particle physicist, not an acoustic phonetics researcher. 7 sigma is particle physics terminology, not audio engineering. Nova's vocal has zero splicing transients. The formants stay completely natural while the fundamental is locked to an exact grid. -- Kenji Moreno Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------