Showing papers in "Journal of Voice in 2005"

TL;DR: Results confirm multifactorial etiologies contributing to hoarseness in the patients identified with muscle tension dysphonia and suggest an interdisciplinary approach to treating all contributing factors portends the best prognosis.

TL;DR: The results of this second study indicate that vocal symptoms had increased considerably in teachers in 2001, and a growing number of misbehaving pupils probably cause increased background noise and stress and, thus, increase the vocal symptoms in teachers.

TL;DR: Notably, it seems that the manner in which a person experiences a voice disorder depends on the individual cultural background.

TL;DR: The results indicated a high interrater reliability for most perceptual characteristics, and both types of voice signals were evaluated reliably, although the reliability for connected speech was somewhat higher than for vowels.

TL;DR: Results showed that, in all cases, gender identifications were based on fundamental frequency, even when fundamental frequency and formant frequency information was contradictory.

TL;DR: These study results do not support the Social Security Administration's recent conclusion that the VHI meets reliability and validity standards for individual decision making, but the present results do support the use of VHI total scores for clinical use with individual patients, and theUse of V-RQOL total scores or individual dimension scores for use with groups of patients.

TL;DR: Vocal fold bowing, prominence of vocal processes, and spindle-shaped glottic chink showed a strong correlation among each other, and the presence of presbylarynx was accompanied by less voice complaint than the Presence of vocal fold mucosa alterations, which in turn are more common where an absence of Presbylaryx exists.

TL;DR: The results indicated that children's perceptions of speech across the three voice qualities differed, regardless of gender, IQ, and school attended, and further support the implementation of specific voice care education for those in the teaching profession.

TL;DR: Survey of voice therapists regarding common diagnostic practices in patients referred for therapy with the diagnosis of muscle tension dysphonia demonstrated that voice quality and patient self-perception are the sole assessments performed by all therapists.

TL;DR: A cepstrum-based measure (CPP/EXP ratio) consistently emerged as a significant factor in predicting voice type; however, variables such as shimmer and a measure of low- vs. high-frequency spectral energy also added substantially to the accurate profiling and prediction of voice type.

TL;DR: A Hilbert transform-based approach to analyze vocal fold vibrations in human subjects exhibiting normal and abnormal voice productions is applied to the analysis of glottal area waveform (GAW) and is capable of providing useful information on the vocal fold vibration.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the recommended, acceptable, and unacceptable levels of noise in the acoustic environment are above 42 dB, above 30 dB, and below 30 dB signal-to-noise ratio, respectively.

TL;DR: Evaluating the ability of acoustic and auditory-perceptual measures to discriminate normal from dysphonic voices provides further support for use of both auditory- perceptual evaluation and acoustic analyses for classifying and evaluating dysphonia.

TL;DR: Although reestablishing joint mobility is difficult, endoscopic reduction should be considered to align the heights of the vocal processes and this process may result in significant voice improvement even long after the dislocation.

TL;DR: The contention that female voices are more vulnerable to vocal loading in background noise is supported, as the total reading time was slightly longer in continuous noise than in intermittent noise.

TL;DR: It is concluded that combining traditional perturbation analysis and nonlinear dynamic analysis might provide efficient descriptions of pathological voices and represent a valuable tool for clinical diagnosis of laryngeal paralysis.

TL;DR: DRS and CSL are not comparable in absolute figures, but their judgment against normative data is identical, and a significant correlation was found for F(0), HNR, and shimmer relative.

TL;DR: The implications of one task for determination of dysphonic severity are discussed, as is the possibility of a task effect when determining other clinically useful vocal parameters.

TL;DR: The results of this study provide valid support for the advantageous effect of vocal warmup on voice quality and present acoustic analysis as a valuable and sensitive tool for quantifying this effect.

TL;DR: The anatomical changes in the senescent larynx are presented, with particular reference to the nonlinearity model of laryngeal biomechanics, suggesting that an increase in non linearity can explain a number of disparate observations about the aged voice.

TL;DR: Electrophysiologic RLN monitoring was not demonstrated in this study to reduce the incidence of transient or permanent VFI after thyroid surgery, and electrophysiology does not always translate into clinical postoperative vocal fold mobility.

TL;DR: The need for a well-organized voice-training program that is most effective after 9 months is emphasized, and the low effectiveness of the vocal hygiene program needs revision.

TL;DR: Clinically, these measures provided documentable and measurable evidence of vocal function and were helpful for comparing patients with normal speakers and for evaluation of the presurgical and postsurgical voice status.

TL;DR: It is suggested that IMT may be a promising treatment approach for athletes with exercise-induced paradoxical vocal fold motion and no change in MIP or dyspnea ratings occurred in response to treatment withdrawal.

TL;DR: The results show that, overall, the dysphonics had lower Fo than did controls for all speaking conditions, and that there were differences according to age, but these contrasts were not statistically significant.

TL;DR: The results of the study suggested that professional-grade DA hardware is strongly recommended to provide accurate and valid voice assessment.

TL;DR: The left-right and posterior-anterior endoscopic shifts were addressed and the validity of MC was established by correlating objective to perceptual ratings and the method demonstrated subpixel accuracy and reliable performance when tested on both simulated and real data.

TL;DR: Investigation of the relationship between vocal pitch-matching skills, and pitch discrimination skills in untrained accurate and inaccurate singers, and the effect of timbre on their pitch discrimination accuracy suggests that accurate F(o) control is at least partially dependent on pitch discrimination abilities, which are important for accurate singing.

TL;DR: The relationship between pitch discrimination ability and pitch production ability in inaccurate adult singers is examined to impact the focus of instruction when teaching an inaccurate singer to sing more accurately and may be of great importance to music educators.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared pretreatment and post-treatment voice samples of 93 patients with functional dysphonia using spectral moments analysis and found that the first four spectral moments of the LTAS were sensitive to perceived voice improvement after voice therapy.