OBSERVATIONS ON THE VOICE IN TABES—A VOICE SIGN

Comparing the Voice Handicap Index Scores in Groups with Structural and Functional Voice Disorders

Objective: The effects of voice disorders vary from person to person. Occupation, work environment, life, and family reaction are variables that affect one’s perception of his/her own as an impaired voice. Voice Handicap Index (VHI) has not yet been used to compare the degree of voice disorders. Assuming that the quality of life may be different under a variety of voice disorders and that diffe...

Acoustic Voice Measures in Benign Mass Lesions

Objectives: The present study aims to compare acoustic voice parameters in patients with vocal cord nodules, polyps, and normal subjects.  Methods: In this cross-sectional case-control study, the participants were selected by convenience sampling, including 30 patients with vocal polyps group, 38 patients with vocal nodules for the second group, and 42 participants without voice pathologies a...

Hi-Fi voice: observations on the distribution of energy in the singing voice spectrum above 5 kHz

Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVT) mitigates voice difficulties in mild Parkinson’s disease

    Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder and many PD patients experience some type of voice and speech disorders during the course of illness. In this study, the aim was to investigate the effect of Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVT) on improving voice difficulties in patients with mild PD using voice handicap index (VHI).    Methods: This interventiona...

The Suicided voice - the Mediated voice

The Suicided Voice (2004) is an interactive multi-media electroacoustic music piece in five movements. The piece explores the various and fluid identities of voice, the notion of voicing and the digital embodiment of the voice beyond the larynx. In this piece the acoustic voice of the performer is processed and manipulated live on the limbs of the performer via the Bodycoder System the first ge...