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Hearing and phonetic criteria in voice measurement: clinical applications
Adrian Fourcin1, Evelyn Abberton
1Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, UK. a.fourcin@ucl.ac.uk
Abstract:
Quantitative clinical voice analysis is discussed with special reference to four factors: 1) measurement criteria that are based on well established auditory parameters; 2) voice material that is modelled on the connected speech of ordinary spoken communication rather than sustained vowels; 3) direct monitoring so as to provide both acoustic and vocal fold contact signals; and 4) phonetic structural similarities across what are ordinarily regarded as highly dissimilar languages. These factors have motivated the development and clinical application of physical analyses that provide measurements related both to vocal fold function and to the perceptual attributes of pitch, loudness, and an important aspect of voice quality.
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