Showing papers in "Journal of Voice in 2014"

TL;DR: This study aims at investigating changes in voice production pattern for a series of Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises and indicates that SOVTE should be divided into two groups, as follows: steady (single sourced) with lower CQr and F1 - F0 difference (hand-over-mouth, humming, and straw) and fluctuating (dual source).

TL;DR: This paper reviewed demographic studies related to vocal disorders in teachers to analyze the diverse methodologies, the prevalence rates pointed out by the authors, the main risk factors, the most prevalent laryngeal lesions, and the repercussions of dysphonias on professional activities.

TL;DR: CPPS is a good measure of dysphonia, with the normal value of CPPS of a running speech sample being defined as a value of 4.0 or higher, based on ROC-curve analysis.

TL;DR: The Brazilian version of VoiSS or ESV demonstrated a high degree of validity, reliability, and responsiveness with regard to differentiating aberrant vocal function and was valuable as an instrument to quantify the response to treatment in patients with dysphonia.

TL;DR: Speakers with a larger percentage of utterances with upward intonation and a larger utterance semitone range were perceived as female by listeners, despite no significant differences between the actual intonations of the four gender groups.

TL;DR: The Dyspnea Index is an effective and efficient instrument to quantify patients' symptoms of upper airway dyspnea, with significant reliability and validity, and can be dependably used as a treatment outcome measure.

TL;DR: Spectral and cepstral acoustic measures and the VHI should be viewed as providing relatively unique, meaningful, and complementary information in a large and diverse group of voice-disordered and control subjects.

TL;DR: A better understanding of mechanical properties that can be used to build computational simulations of vocal fold vibrations and pave the way for the design of biomaterials to restore biomechanical properties in damaged vocal folds is provided.

TL;DR: For healthy speakers without voice disorders, subglottal pressure, translaryngeal airflow, and MFDR may be important factors that contribute to an increased sense of vocal effort.

TL;DR: Analysis of cepstral peak prominence (CPP) and CPP-smoothed (CPPs) is a promising tool in clinical practice with European Portuguese speakers, according to the results of this study.

TL;DR: Vocal fry was perceived significantly more frequently in sentences than in isolated vowel productions and was detected significantly more often in sentence-final position than in initial- and/or mid-sentence position.

TL;DR: Treatment was successful in improving patient perception of voice handicap and/or some acoustic voice parameters and a disorder-specific response to frequency-based acoustic measures was found.

TL;DR: A different vocal behavior in subjects with subjective VP and a higher vocal load with fewer possibilities for vocal recovery is suggested.

TL;DR: In this paper, patients valued direct voice therapy in which they worked on altering vocal behaviors more than indirect voice therapy that aimed to educate patients about their voice, and patients identified specific voice therapy exercises and transfer of techniques to conversation as the most useful aspects of treatment.

TL;DR: A growing body of literature in the field of voice science is documenting a relationship between hydration and vocal function; however, greater understanding is required to guide best practice in the maintenance of vocal health and management of voice disorders.

TL;DR: The lack of correlations between the VHI-10 change scores and voice laboratory measures may be due to differing constructs of each measure; namely, handicap versus physiological function.

TL;DR: Young women were likely to show different glottal configurations and different responses to frequency changes from those of young men, elderly men, and elderly women, and Phonosurgeons should pay attention to the normal variations detected in the present study.

TL;DR: These findings identify a high prevalence of multiple types of distress among patients with voice disorders, presenting an opportunity to provide more comprehensive care to this patient population.

TL;DR: Glottal cycle vibratory motion in children is functionally different compared with adult males and females, suggesting the need for development of children specific norms for both normal and disordered voice qualities.

TL;DR: The reported results support the use of the VHI-10 for the Italian population in clinical settings owing to its validity and rapid and simple use.

TL;DR: The comparison of larynx dimensions showed the presence of sexual dimorphism in the group of South Brazilian people studied, and there was no morphometric difference between the larynX samples of the individuals of the same sex after 40 years of age.

TL;DR: For unilateral vocal fold paresis/paralysis after thyroidectomy, it is recommended that absorbable mass injection laryngoplasty, voice training, and neurolysis during the first 12 months but laryngeal reinnervation after 12 months.

TL;DR: This novel modification for endoscopic anterior web formation with injection augmentation has been shown to be a successful procedure for permanent elevation of pitch with little or no morbidity.

TL;DR: Restylane is a safe and effective temporary material for office-based injection medialization with an average length of benefit of 12.2 weeks and a trend toward avoidance of permanent medialization in patients who were injected <6 months after nerve injury, which supports the findings of others.

TL;DR: The counting task and sustained vowel sounds in high, habitual, and low registers are the optimal tasks for perceptual voice judgment in regard to interrater reliability.

TL;DR: The study provides data about the voice behavior of a large cohort of call center operators and demonstrates that the number of work hours and the percentage PT are not statistically related to the perception of voice disturbances in this working category.

TL;DR: In Japan, elderly dysphonic patients were prevalent and rapidly increasing in recent years and preventive approach on risk factors such as reflux laryngitis, chronic medical condition, and vocal abuse should be considered in the management of presbylarynx.

TL;DR: Preliminary findings regarding CT and TA dominance and register control do not support the assumption that all chest and chestmix production has greater TA muscle activity than CT muscle activity or that all headmix and head production require greater CT Muscle activity than TA Muscle activity, but indicate that pitch level may play a greater role in determining TA and CT dominance than register.

TL;DR: The V-RQOL may be more sensitive than the VHI-10 in detecting the impact of presbyphonia and muscle tension dysphonia and the V HI-10 score cannot be calculated from V- RQOL score using the tested equation.

TL;DR: High satisfaction and statistically significant improvements on the VHI ratings were found after treatment in the intensive group, and intensive treatment is a potentially viable service delivery option for functional dysphonia and warrants further larger scale investigation.