A Study of Voice-change Among Adultsin Their 20s According to Voice Use Time

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
박현정 ◽  
이무경 ◽  
Kwon,Do-Ha
Keyword(s):  
Voice Change ◽  
Voice Use

Measuring Vocal Fatigue in Sports Coaches

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Kathy Connaughton ◽  
Irena Yanushevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Muscle Adaptation ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Acoustic Measures ◽  
Perceptual Evaluation ◽  
Coaching Session ◽  
Sports Coaches ◽  
Voice Use

Objective: This study explores the immediate impact of prolonged voice use by professional sports coaches. Method: Speech samples including sustained phonation of vowel /a/ and a short read passage were collected from two professional sports coaches. The audio recordings were made within an hour before and after a coaching session, over three sessions. Perceptual evaluation of voice quality was done using the GRBAS scale. The speech samples were subsequently analyzed using Praat. The acoustic measures included fundamental frequency (f0), jitter, shimmer, Harmonics-to-Noise ratio and Cepstral Peak Prominence. Main results: The results of perceptual and acoustic analysis suggest a slight shift towards a tenser phonation post-coaching session, which is a likely consequence of laryngeal muscle adaptation to prolonged voice use. This tendency was similar in sustained vowels and connected speech. Conclusion: Acoustic measures used in this study can be useful to capture the voice change post-coaching session. It is desirable, however, that more sophisticated and robust and at the same time intuitive and easy-to-use tools for voice assessment and monitoring be made available to clinicians and professional voice users.

Vocal Fatigue

1983 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric K. Sander ◽  
Danielle E. Ripich
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Vocal Behavior ◽  
Vocal Fatigue ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Endurance Testing ◽  
Clinical Benefits ◽  
Voice Use

The phenomenon of vocal fatigue, although not well understood, is commonly considered a symptom of voice misuse. This paper reviews the clinical and experimental evidence linking vocal fatigue to the quality, pitch, and loudness of voice use. Other reasons for voice change are discussed. The paper concludes by stressing the immediate clinical benefits of voice endurance testing as well as its potential experimental contribution to a better scientific understanding of optimum and abusive vocal behavior.

Voice Therapy With Seniors: Attendance, Outcomes, and Associated Patient Characteristics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 814-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie E. Smith ◽  
Ruth Huntley Bahr ◽  
Hector N. Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Data ◽  
Voice Therapy ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Reflux Symptom Index ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Symptom Index ◽  
Younger Patients ◽  
Unsuccessful Treatment

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the attendance and success rates for seniors in voice therapy, identify any contributing patient-related factors, and compare results to existing findings for younger patients. Method This retrospective study included information from the voice records of 50 seniors seen by the same speech-language pathologist in a private practice. Analysis of attendance and outcome data divided participants into 6 groups. Outcomes for Groups 1–3 (64% of patients) were considered successful (positive voice change), while outcomes for Groups 4–6 (36% of patients) were considered unsuccessful. These data were compared to similar data collected for younger adults in a previous study. Results The attendance and success rates for seniors in this study were higher than those previously reported for younger patients. Further consideration of patient factors revealed that reports of increased stress, Reflux Symptom Index scores > 13, and higher Voice Handicap Index functional subscale scores were significant in distinguishing between patients in the successful and unsuccessful treatment outcome groups. Conclusions The relatively high attendance and success rates among this sample of seniors suggest the desire to achieve voice improvement does not diminish with age, and chances for success in voice therapy among nonfrail seniors may be greater than for younger patients.

Update: Behavioral Management of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis and Paresis

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-482
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Vocal Fold ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Traumatic Injury ◽  
Voice Therapy ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Behavioral Management ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Vocal Quality ◽  
And Function ◽  
Voice Use

PurposeVocal fold motion impairment (VFMI) can be the result of iatrogenic or traumatic injury or may be idiopathic in nature. It can result in glottic incompetence leading to changes in vocal quality and ease. Associated voice complaints may include breathiness, roughness, diplophonia, reduced vocal intensity, feeling out of breath with talking, and vocal fatigue with voice use. A comprehensive interprofessional voice evaluation includes auditory-perceptual voice evaluation, laryngeal examination including videostroboscopy, acoustic and aerodynamic voice measures. These components provide valuable insight into laryngeal structure and function and individual voice use patterns and, in conjunction with stimulability testing, help identify candidacy for voice therapy and choice of therapeutic techniques.ConclusionA comprehensive, interprofessional evaluation of patients with VFMI is necessary to assess the role of voice therapy and develop a treatment plan. Although there is no efficacy data to support specific voice therapy techniques for treating VFMI, considerations for various techniques are provided.

A Description of Middle School Male Singers’ Voice Change and Voice Part Assignment

2021 ◽  
pp. 875512332110182
Author(s):  
Ryan Austin Fisher ◽  
Nancy L. Summitt ◽  
Ellen B. Koziel
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Stage 4 ◽  
Public Middle School ◽  
Middle School Choir ◽  
Choral Programs ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
The Voice

The purpose of this study was to describe the voice change and voice part assignment of male middle school choir members. Volunteers ( N = 92) were recruited from three public middle school choral programs (Grades 6-8). Participants were audio-recorded performing simple vocal tasks in order to assess vocal range and asked to share the music they were currently singing in class. Results revealed 23.91% of participants’ voices could be categorized as unchanged, 14.13% as Stage 1, 3.26% as Stage 2, 10.87% as Stage 3, 26.09% as Stage 4, and 21.74% as Stage 5. The majority of sixth-grade participants were classified as unchanged or in Stage 1 of the voice change and the majority of eighth-grade participants were classified in Stages 4 to 5 of the voice change. Of the participants labeled “tenors” in their choir, over 60% were classified as either unchanged voices or in Stage 1 of the voice change.

Kaposi's Sarcoma of the Larynx

1997 ◽  
Vol 106 (7) ◽  
pp. 563-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil F. Schiff ◽  
Peak Woo ◽  
Donald J. Annino ◽  
Stanley M. Shapshay
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide Laser ◽  
Kaposi's Sarcoma ◽  
Kaposi’S Sarcoma ◽  
Vascular Disorder ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Acquired Immunodeficiency ◽  
Immunodeficiency Syndrome ◽  
Supraglottic Larynx

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a neoplastic vascular disorder, classically arising in the skin of the lower extremities. As a consequence of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, an increasing number of patients have been found to have KS. In AIDS patients, KS appears to exhibit a more diffuse nature and frequently affects the head and neck. Mucosal lesions are most often seen, commonly involving the oral cavity. Only rare cases of laryngeal involvement have been recorded in the literature. We report 2 cases of KS of the supraglottic larynx. Our first patient, an elderly man of Mediterranean descent, complained of voice change and throat discomfort. Endoscopy with biopsy for diagnosis allowed conservative treatment with chemotherapy. Our second patient was a younger man with AIDS who presented with symptoms of airway obstruction. Management with carbon dioxide laser epiglottectomy was successful in relieving that patient's symptoms. Although rare, KS may present in both healthy and immunocompromised patients, and must be considered in the differential diagnosis of all violaceous lesions of the larynx.

Longitudinal research on adolescent voice change in males

1994 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 2646-2654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Hollien ◽  
Rachel Green ◽  
Karen Massey
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Adolescent Voice

A Description of Vocal Maturation among Fifth- and Sixth-Grade Boys

1999 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Killian
Keyword(s):  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
School Age ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Changing Voice

The present study was designed to explore the idea that boys' voices may be changing earlier than indicated in previous research. Singing and speaking voices of fifth-grade (h = 56) and sixth-grade (h = 43) boys were categorized and compared with the Cooksey changing voice stages. Data consisted of grade in school, age in years, highest and lowest sung pitches, overall singing range, speaking pitches, and voice stage categorization. Results indicated an earlier voice change than in previous research. Findings consistent with previous research included the fact that singing and speaking pitch lowered with each successive voice-change stage, the overall range narrowed in the predicted stages, and the speaking pitch remained 2-3 semitones above lowest sung pitch, regardless of voice stage.

scholarly journals Comparison of Vocal Vibration-Dose Measures for Potential-Damage Risk Criteria

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 1425-1439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo R. Titze ◽  
Eric J. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Energy Dissipation ◽  
Dose Calculations ◽  
Equal Energy ◽  
Vocal Fold Vibration ◽  
Risk Criterion ◽  
Time Cycle ◽  
Vocal Intensity ◽  
Potential Damage ◽  
Voice Use ◽  
Damage Risk

Purpose Schoolteachers have become a benchmark population for the study of occupational voice use. A decade of vibration-dose studies on the teacher population allows a comparison to be made between specific dose measures for eventual assessment of damage risk. Method Vibration dosimetry is reformulated with the inclusion of collision stress. Two methods of estimating amplitude of vocal-fold vibration are compared to capture variations in vocal intensity. Energy loss from collision is added to the energy-dissipation dose. An equal-energy-dissipation criterion is defined and used on the teacher corpus as a potential-damage risk criterion. Results Comparison of time-, cycle-, distance-, and energy-dose calculations for 57 teachers reveals a progression in information content in the ability to capture variations in duration, speaking pitch, and vocal intensity. The energy-dissipation dose carries the greatest promise in capturing excessive tissue stress and collision but also the greatest liability, due to uncertainty in parameters. Cycle dose is least correlated with the other doses. Conclusion As a first guide to damage risk in excessive voice use, the equal-energy-dissipation dose criterion can be used to structure trade-off relations between loudness, adduction, and duration of speech.

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