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Effects of Voice Therapy on Vocal Tract Discomfort in Muscle Tension Dysphonia [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2019
Introduction: Patients with muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) suffer from several physical discomforts in their vocal tract. However, few studies have examined the effects of voice therapy (VT) on the vocal tract discomfort (VTD) in patients with voice ...
Banafshe Mansuri   +5 more
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Korean laryngeal contrast revisited: An electroglottographic study on denasalized and oral stops

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2021
In several Korean dialects, domain-initial nasal onsets undergo denasalization as a recent sound change. Nasal stops may be realized as prevoiced or even devoiced stops.
Jiayin Gao, Jihyeon Yun, Takayuki Arai
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Voice analysis before and after vocal tiredness [PDF]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011
Background⁄Aim. A school teacher's occupation is one of the most vocal demanding professions. Vocal tiredness affects acoustic characteristics of voice, leads to the change in acoustic quality during vocal production.
Petrović-Lazić Mirjana   +3 more
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Siri, you've changed! Acoustic properties and racialized judgments of voice assistants

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
As speech technology is increasingly integrated into modern American society, voice assistants are a more significant part of our everyday lives. According to Apple, Siri fulfills 25 billion requests each month. As part of a software update in April 2021,
Nicole Holliday
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Association between voice symptoms and college professors’ home working conditions during online classes in times of COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesRevista de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias de la Salud, 2022
Introduction. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching conditions changed around the world from in-person classes to online classes, which also determined changes on teachers’ working conditions.
Lady Catherine Cantor-Cutiva   +2 more
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Transforming voice quality

open access: yes8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), 2003
Voice transformation is the process of transforming the characteristics of speech uttered by a source speaker, such that a listener would believe the speech was uttered by a target speaker. In this paper we address the problem of transforming voice quality. We do not attempt to transform prosody.
Gillett, Ben, King, Simon
openaire   +3 more sources

Voice quality estimation in combined radio-VoIP networks for dispatching systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The voice quality modelling assessment and planning field is deeply and widely theoretically and practically mastered for common voice communication systems, especially for the public fixed and mobile telephone networks including Next Generation Networks
Kučerák, Ján, Vodrážka, Jiří
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Voice quality in Australian English

open access: yesJASA Express Letters, 2022
This study is an acoustic investigation of voice quality in Australian English. The speech of 33 Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal English speakers) is compared to that of 28 Anglo Australians [Mainstream Australian English (MAE) speakers] from two rural locations in Victoria.
Debbie Loakes, Adele Gregory
openaire   +3 more sources

Voice Quality in British English. Its Nature, Functions and Applications

open access: yesAnglophonia, 2019
This paper deals with the functions of voice quality. It also suggests that a number of practical applications can be derived from the study of these functions.Like e.g. Laver (1968; 1980), Sharpe (1970) or Mackenzie-Beck (2005), we take voice quality to
Stephan Wilhelm
doaj   +1 more source

Proposals to promote health and prevent voice disorders in occupational voice users: A scoping review [PDF]

open access: yesRevista CEFAC, 2023
Purpose: to characterize the actions of vocal health promotion and/or prevention of vocal disorders applied to voice professionals. Methods: a scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines in SciELO and PubMed databases was conducted. Articles that
Glauciene Amaral Martins   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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