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VOICE QUALITY AND INDEXICAL INFORMATION
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 1968ABSTRACTThe outline of a componential descriptive model of voice quality is suggested, in the hope of facilitating discussion about voice quality among phoneticians, linguists, speech therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists. Emphasis is laid on the function of voice quality as an index to biological, psychological and social characteristics of the ...
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Student voice - A degree of quality
Nursing Children and Young People, 2016IN DECEMBER the government announced plans to develop a new healthcare role, the nursing associate. Consultation continues on what this role will entail, but the training route has been announced as an apprenticeship, and it has been described as a way to avoid the degree-only route to becoming a nurse.
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Toward a voice source characterization of voice quality
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990Voice source characteristics for voice quality variations in an individual nonpathological speaker are presented. This forms part of an ongoing analysis that is being carried out within the framework of Laver's classification [J. Laver, The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality (Cambridge U. P., Cambridge, 1980)] and is based on multiple repetitions by
Christer Gobl, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide
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Menstrual Cycle and Voice Quality
Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1979To the Editor .—In their article "Effect of the Menstrual Cycle on Voice Quality," which appeared in the January 1978Archives(104:7-10), Silverman and Zimmer came to the conclusion that "the data reported here do not support the contention that hoarseness is a feature of the premenstrual syndrome for the typical woman." Both the methods of ...
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Effects of age on speech and voice quality ratings.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016The quality of communication may be affected by listeners' perception of talkers' characteristics. This study examined if there were effects of talker and listener age on the perception of speech and voice qualities.
Huiwen Goy +2 more
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Quality assessment of interactive voice applications
Computer Networks, 2008The conversational quality of a VoIP communication is dependent on several factors such as the coding process used, the network conditions and the type of error correction or concealment employed. Furthermore, the quality perceived by the users is also dependent on the characteristics of the conversation itself.
da Silva, Ana Paulo Couto +5 more
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1999
In the Western semiotic tradition, the materials of which things are made have generally been regarded as not-yet-meaningful, as the ‘tohuwabohu’, the unformed matter about which we read in the book of Genesis: ‘In the beginning the earth was without form.’ In order to create order out of this chaos and to be able to conceive of the nature of actual ...
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In the Western semiotic tradition, the materials of which things are made have generally been regarded as not-yet-meaningful, as the ‘tohuwabohu’, the unformed matter about which we read in the book of Genesis: ‘In the beginning the earth was without form.’ In order to create order out of this chaos and to be able to conceive of the nature of actual ...
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Quality of Life in Prosthetic Voice Users
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 2004OBJECTIVEThis study was designed to measure the efficacy of prosthetic voice restoration for laryngectomees in relation to various quality‐of‐life parameters.STUDY DESIGN AND SETTINGThe University of Washington Quality of Life Scale, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Scale, and a demographic data form of our own design were completed by 16 ...
Gerald L. Culton, John M. Gerwin
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Higher Education Quarterly, 1992
Abstract What counts as quality is contested. The different views of quality generate different methods of assessing quality and, in particular, generate alternative sets of performance indicators (PIs). However, PIs are highly limited in their informational content, and have nothing directly to tell us about the quality of the educational processes ...
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Abstract What counts as quality is contested. The different views of quality generate different methods of assessing quality and, in particular, generate alternative sets of performance indicators (PIs). However, PIs are highly limited in their informational content, and have nothing directly to tell us about the quality of the educational processes ...
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The effect of speech melody on voice quality
Speech Communication, 2001This paper explores whether a speaker's voice quality, defined as the perceived timbre of someone's speech, changes as a function of variation in speech melody. Analyses are based on several productions of the vowel ‘a', provided with different intonation patterns.
Swerts, Marc, Veldhuis, R.
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