This article argues for the pedagogical possibilities of collective community radio show production transnational students; in particular, identifying capacities self-representation students from otherwise marginalised and under-represented communities. Students are tasked this elective module to collectively produce a community-facing multilingual Leicester station; emphasising alongside criti...

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The voice effects following laser cordectomy for early glottic cancer are poorly described. We investigated the voice outcomes of subligamentous cordectomy of progressive anterior-posterior extent of excision. STUDY DESIGN Physical phonatory modeling. METHODS The influence of vocal fold surgical defects and corresponding scar was experimentally investigated using a sel...

The dramatic impact of neurological degenerative pathologies in life quality is a growing concern. It is well known that many neurological diseases leave a fingerprint in voice and speech production. Many techniques have been designed for the detection, diagnose and monitoring the neurological disease. Most of them are costly or difficult to extend to primary attention medical services. Through...

According to the source-filter model of speech production, speech can be represented by passing the excitation signal through the vocal tract filter. The epoch or instant of maximum excitation corresponds to the glottal closure instant. Several speech processing applications require robust epoch detection but this can be a difficult task. Although state-of-the-art epoch estimation methods can p...

In human speech production, the voice source contains important non-lexical information, especially relating to a speaker’s voice quality. In this study, direct measurements of the glottal area waveforms were used to examine the effects of voice quality and glottal gaps on voice source model parameters and various acoustic measures. Results showed that the open quotient parameter, cepstral peak...