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Risk Factors for Voice Problems in Professional Actors and Singers
Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 2020 The purpose was to determine the incidence of voice disorders in a group of professional actors and singers, to compare the two groups, and to investigate the potential causes of their voice problems.
Prebil Nataša +2 more
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International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2015 Introduction Disordered voice quality could be a symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). The impact of MS on voice-related quality of life is still controversial.
Vladimir Bauer +2 more
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Construction of UEQ+ scales for voice quality [PDF]
Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2020, 2020 The UEQ+ is a modular framework for the construction of UX questionnaires. The researcher can pick those scales that fit his or her research question from a list of 16 available UX scales. Currently, no UEQ+ scales are available to allow measuring the quality of voice interactions.
Klein, Andreas M. +3 more
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Dual cognitive pathways to voice quality: Frequent voicers improvise, infrequent voicers elaborate.
PLoS ONE, 2019 We investigate the involvement of Working Memory Capacity (WMC, the cognitive resource necessary for controlled elaborate thinking) in voice behavior (speaking up with suggestions, problems, and opinions to change the organization). While scholars assume
Inge Wolsink +3 more
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Dimension esthétique des voix normales et dysphoniques : Approches perceptive et acoustique
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2012 Researchers as well as speech therapists are interested in acoustic cues, that allow evaluating voice quality and its degradation in order to obtain a diagnosis and to analyze the effects of a therapy.
Melissa Barkat-Defradas +6 more
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Vocal Variability Post Swallowing in Individuals with and without Oropharyngeal Dysphagia
International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2015 Introduction Voice modification after swallowing may indicate changes in the transit of the bolus. Objective The aim of this study is to verify the use of perceptual voice analysis to detect oropharyngeal dysphagia. Study Design
Karoline Weber dos Santos +3 more
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I-vector Based Within Speaker Voice Quality Identification on connected speech [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Voice disorders affect a large portion of the population, especially heavy voice users such as teachers or call-center workers. Most voice disorders can be treated effectively with behavioral voice therapy, which teaches patients to replace problematic, habituated voice production mechanics with optimal voice production technique(s), yielding improved ...
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Voice disorders occurred as a result of the use of psychoactive substances [PDF]
Baština, 2023 Frequent use of psychoactive drugs, alcohol and tobacco can lead to pathological changes in the vocal cords. The aim of this study is to analyze the connection between the consumption of psychoactive substances and disturbances in the quality of the ...
Ilić-Savić Ivana S., Babac Snežana S.
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PerMod: Perceptually Grounded Voice Modification with Latent Diffusion Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Perceptual modification of voice is an elusive goal. While non-experts can modify an image or sentence perceptually with available tools, it is not clear how to similarly modify speech along perceptual axes. Voice conversion does make it possible to convert one voice to another, but these modifications are handled by black box models, and the specifics
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Classification of voice qualities
Journal of Phonetics, 1986 A total of 473 samples of normal and pathological voices were classified by a group of experienced listeners according to three factors of the Isshiki scale (degree of hoarseness, roughness, breathiness, four point grading). The same material was processed by long-term average spectral analysis (LTAS).
A. Rauhut, J. Wendler, H. Krüger
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