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Vocal range profile in elderly women with and without voice symptom
Revista CEFAC, 2019 Purpose: to characterize and compare the vocal range profile in elderly women with and without voice symptoms. Methods: a total of 23 elderly women attending an elderly care public service participated in the study.
Mariana Rebeka Gomes Queiroz +2 more
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Voice analysis before and after vocal rehabilitation in patients following open surgery on vocal cords [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2016 Background/Aim. The major role of larynx in speech, respiration and swallowing makes carcinomas of this region and their treatment very influential for patients’ life quality.
Bunijevac Mila +3 more
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Integrating Voice Quality Cues in the Pitch Perception of Speech and Non-speech Utterances
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Pitch perception plays a crucial role in speech processing. Since F0 is highly ambiguous and variable in the speech signal, effective pitch-range perception is important in perceiving the intended linguistic pitch targets.
Jianjing Kuang, M. Liberman
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Using residual H1* for voice quality researcha) [PDF]
JASA Express LettersOne of the most common ways of assessing voice quality is through the spectral slope measure H1*–H2*. However, Chai and Garellek [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152(3), 1856–1870 (2022)] propose and demonstrate the robustness of a new measure—residual H1*.
Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff, Grant McGuire
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Voice Quality Estimation in Wireless Networks
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2015 This article deals with the impact of Wireless (Wi-Fi) networks on the perceived quality of voice services. The Quality of Service (QoS) metrics must be monitored in the computer network during the voice data transmission to ensure proper voice service ...
Petr Zach, Martin Pokorný, Jiří Balej
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Computer Speech and Language, 2017 Change in voice quality (VQ) is one of the first precursors of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Specifically, impacted phonation and articulation causes the patient to have a breathy, husky-semiwhisper and hoarse voice. A goal of this paper is to characterise a
M. Cernak +5 more
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Larynx cancer: quality of life and voice after treatment
Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2014 INTRODUCTION: Treatment for patients with larynx cancer often results in a negative impact on their physical, social and psychological functions. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate quality of life and voice in patients treated for advanced laryngeal cancer as a
Vaneli Colombo Rossi +5 more
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Iconic prosody enhances the depictive power of ideophones
Language and CognitionProsody not only signals the speaker’s cognitive states but can also imitate various concepts. However, previous studies on the latter, the iconic function of prosody, have mostly analyzed novel words and nonlinguistic vocalizations.
Kimi Akita, Shigeto Kawahara
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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).
J. Wendler, A. Rauhut, H. Krüger
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Journal of Voice, 2017 OBJECTIVES A simplified perceptual protocol for the assessment of voice quality (VQ) is attempted based on the Vocal Profile Analysis (VPA) scheme, with the aim of alleviating typical issues associated with the multidimensionality of VQ and enabling an ...
Eugenia San Segundo, Jose A. Mompeán
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