The inability to communicate easily and clearly can have far-reaching debilitating effects, not only in childhood, but throughout a lifetime. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of stuttering, voice disorder, and speech sound disorders ...
Omid Mohamadi +2 more
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Self-reported prevalence and associated factors of work related voice disorders among school teachers in Sekota town, Wag Himra zone, North Ethiopia, 2021: a cross-sectional survey [PDF]
Background Occupational dysphonia or work-related voice disorders are a common problem among school teachers. Voice-related absenteeism and treatment expenses, the societal costs in the US alone have been estimated to be 2.5 billion dollars annually ...
Alemayehu Kibret Belete +2 more
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The Dialogue study: Protocol for a randomized clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of virtual reality-based psychotherapy plus treatment as usual versus treatment as usual for eating disorders. [PDF]
BackgroundThere is considerable interest in developing novel psychological interventions for eating disorders targeting characteristics potentially serving as maintaining factors in eating disorder pathology.
Nina K Hansen +8 more
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“Is voice a marker for Autism spectrum disorder? A systematic review and meta‐analysis” [PDF]
Lay Abstract Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are reported to speak in distinctive ways. Distinctive vocal production should be better understood as it can affect social interactions and social development and could represent a noninvasive
Riccardo Fusaroli +4 more
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Effect of Occupational Noise Exposure on the Prevalence of Benign Vocal Fold Lesions: A Nationwide Population-Based Study [PDF]
Objectives Voice abuse in noisy environments can result in voice disorders. However, insufficient studies have sought to differentiate vocal cord lesions through laryngoscopic examinations among workers in noisy environments.
Ji-Sun Kim +9 more
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Background: Voice disorders cause undesirable effects on school teachers such as reducing their quality of life, decrease in work performance affecting the quality of education, job absenteeism, and reduced social activities as well.
Gowthaman Sankar +4 more
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Automatic Voice Disorder Detection Using Self-Supervised Representations
Many speech features and models, including Deep Neural Networks (DNN), are used for classification tasks between healthy and pathological speech with the Saarbruecken Voice Database (SVD).
D. Ribas +5 more
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Although many quantitative parameters have been devised to describe abnormalities in vocal fold vibration, little is known about the priority of these parameters.
Akihito Yamauchi +4 more
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Utilizing Wav2Vec In Database-Independent Voice Disorder Detection
Automatic detection of voice disorders from acoustic speech signals can help to improve reliability of medical diagnosis. However, the real-life environment in which speech signals are recorded for diagnosis can be different from the environment in which
Saska Tirronen +4 more
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Introduction. Laryngeal disorders are characterized by a change in the vibratory pattern of the vocal folds. This disorder may have an organic origin described by anatomical fold modification, or a functional origin caused by vocal abuse or misuse.
Mateus Morikawa +2 more
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