Showing papers in "Journal of Voice in 2020"

TL;DR: Investigation of the relationship between the change in levels of perceived psychological stress and vocal symptoms among Israeli academic college professors required to shift to synchronous online teaching during the global COVID-19 pandemic concluded that psychological stress may have a negative impact on the voice.

TL;DR: Dysphonia may be encountered in a quarter of patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 and should be considered as a symptom list of the infection.

TL;DR: Face masks increased the perception of vocal effort, difficulty in speech intelligibility, auditory feedback, and difficulty in coordinating speech and breathing, irrespective of usage.

TL;DR: Changes in the acoustic parameters of voice are caused by the insufficient airflow, and increased aperiodicity, irregularity, signal perturbation and level of noise, which are the consequences of pulmonary and laryngological involvements in patients with COVID-19.

TL;DR: Neither the acoustic measures (CPP, CPPS, and SPL) nor the perceptual evaluations could clearly distinguish teachers with laryngeal changes from larynGEally healthy teachers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the case of a high transmission rate of SARS-CoV-2 generating a cluster linked to an indoor choir rehearsal hold at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in France.

TL;DR: The results hypothesize that stress may be a multi-dimensional problem associated with various risk factors and result in an even more urgent risk of voice disorders in teachers than estimated.

TL;DR: Electroglottography (EGG) is a low-cost, noninvasive technology for measuring changes of relative vocal fold contact area during laryngeal voice production that has over the past six decades developed into a mature technology with a wide range of applications.

TL;DR: The effect of room acoustics and background noise on voice parameters appears to be stronger than the type of microphone used for the recording, and an appropriate acoustical clinical space may be more important than the quality of the microphone.

TL;DR: The quality, readability, and understandability of the written materials are very low and in order for patients to read and learn from the online sources, contents of thewritten materials should be revised.

TL;DR: The database research yielded 179 relevant published studies, retrieved using digital libraries of IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science, Iop Science, Taylor and Francis Online, and Scitepress, and these relevant studies report different features, among which here the authors consider the most investigated ones, within themost investigated age-range.

TL;DR: AVQI and ABI showed in the German language valid and robust results to quantify abnormal voice qualities regarding overall voice quality and breathiness severity.

TL;DR: The Brazilian Portuguese version of the VFI is a valid instrument to assess the self-perception of vocal fatigue, especially in dysphonic individuals.

TL;DR: Information gleaned from this literature review suggests that a cross-pollination between areas of science is needed, because quite obviously, the pelvic floor is a topic in physical medicine, but it is not (so much) in the voice literature.

TL;DR: The results of this study support the continued targeting of fo and vocal tract resonance in voice and communication feminization/masculinization training programs and provide preliminary evidence for more emphasis being placed on vocal intensity and rate of speech.

TL;DR: The findings confirm the high risk of voice health problems among German teachers and illustrate the complexity of vocal health and quality of life issues in teachers associated with gender, age, and the history of experienced voice problems.

TL;DR: The results suggest that biofeedback might be a useful tool in voice modification therapy for transgender women; however, larger studies and information about generalization will be essential before strong conclusions can be drawn.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the pulmonary physiology that would result in reduced raw pulmonary function, in combination with other differences associated with gender, may lead to a greater incidence of vocal fatigue among female teachers than their male counterparts.

TL;DR: The results of this study indicate the effect of vocal fatigue on the quality of life of university professors.

TL;DR: This study confirms the external validity of the AVQI 03.01 when applied on a French 27-syllable sample, and indicates that it is a robust, ecologically valid objective measure of overall voice quality.

TL;DR: A new classification method of voice disorders with HHT and KNN can be effectively used to classify voice disorders.

TL;DR: The results of this study reveal a high prevalence rate of self-reported VP in Carnatic singers, and they suggest that the VPs are associated with different risk factors like any other form of singers.

TL;DR: This study adds to the literature a comprehensive case study of speech and voice changes experienced by one transmasculine participant undergoing testosterone therapy for transition.

TL;DR: University professors belonging to the female sex, who perceive the noise in the work environment as unsatisfactory, speak fast, or present high fundamental frequency and loud voice reported the largest number of vocal symptoms.

TL;DR: In general, semioccluded vocal tract exercises tend to increase vocal economy regardless of the vocal condition (normal voice or dysphonia) or the specific SOVTE used.

TL;DR: The present paper aims at further documenting the importance of acoustic voice analyses, maximum phonation time (MPT) and Voice Handicap Index (VHI) into clinical investigations by determined significant dependence on diagnostic group analyzing all the obtained acoustic scores.

TL;DR: It is suggested that immediate positive effect could be produced by connected speech phonatory tasks using the SOVM in both dysphonic subjects and subjects with normal voice, the change being greater among the former.

TL;DR: High-frequency TENS can be used in the voice treatment program of patients with MTD and patients with pain complaint reported that their vocal tract discomfort and pain were decreased following the high- frequency TENS.

TL;DR: During the COVID-19 pandemic, a telemedicine model can be effectively employed to improve patient access to subspecialty laryngology care, including a multi-disciplinary care approach, with initiation of various therapeutic interventions.