OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present pilot study is to investigate whether the beneficial short-term effects of voice therapy in patients with voice problems after treatment of early glottic cancer as reported in our earlier study remain present on the long term. STUDY DESIGN In this prospective study, 12 patients, selected based on a screening questionnaire about voice problems and randomly ...

Differentiating individuals by their voice is an important social skill for infants to acquire. In a previous study, we demonstrated that the ability to discriminate individuals by voice follows a pattern of perceptual narrowing (Friendly et al., 2013). Specifically, we found that the ability to discriminate between two foreign-species (rhesus monkey) voices decreased significantly between 6 an...

OBJECTIVES Relative fundamental frequency (RFF) has shown promise as an acoustic measure of voice, but the subjective and time-consuming nature of its manual estimation has made clinical translation infeasible. Here, a faster, more objective algorithm for RFF estimation is evaluated in a large and diverse sample of individuals with and without voice disorders. METHODS Acoustic recordings were...

Studies of brain-damaged subjects indicate that recognizing a familiar voice and discriminating among unfamiliar voices may be selectively impaired, and thus that the two are separate functions. Familiar voice recognition was impaired in cases of damage to the right (but not the left) hemisphere, while impaired unfamiliar voice discrimination was observed in cases with damage to either hemisphere.

Voice over Internet Protocol is a technology of transmitting voice on the Internet. Human voice is digitized, encoded, and transmitted on the Internet in the form of voice packets. These packets are received at the other end, decoded and converted back to analog signal. Loss and delay of voice packets result in the degradation of voice quality, since voice is a real-time application. Consecutiv...

in their valuable discussion of whistleblowing in healthcare organisations, mannion and davies highlight the importance of organisational culture in influencing whether people raise concerns, and whether these concerns are listened to and acted upon. the role of leadership in shaping organisational culture is well-established1 and in this commentary, we will examine the influence of leaders in ...