OBJECTIVES In this retrospective study, voice therapy results of adult patients with hyperfunctional voice disorders were discussed. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety-one adult patients (59 females, 32 males; mean age: 37 years; range 18 to 54 years) who completed their voice therapy sessions between May 2002 and May 2007 were included in this study. The voice therapy plan was focused on developing...

BACKGROUND Total thyroidectomy has become a routine surgical procedure. However, postoperative complications are not rare and can lead to voice disorders. AIM To study voice quality after total thyroidectomy. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Prospective study over a period of 5 years in 395 surgical patients undergoing total thyroidectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS The voice quality of patients was based ...

We used perceptual aftereffects induced by adaptation with anti-voice stimuli to investigate voice identity representations. Participants learned a set of voices then were tested on a voice identification task with vowel stimuli morphed between identities, after different conditions of adaptation. In Experiment 1, participants chose the identity opposite to the adapting anti-voice significantly...

In PCS networks, the multiple access problem is characterized by spatially dispersed mobile source terminals sharing a radio channel connected to a fixed base station. In this paper, we design and evaluate a reservation random access (RRA) scheme that multiplexes voice traffic at the talkspurt level to efficiently integrate voice and data traffic in outdoor microcellular environments. The schem...

UNLABELLED Dysphonia may impair the quality of communication and social relations of people, thereby directly affecting quality of life. It is common knowledge amongst professionals involved with the treatment of voice disorders the need for objective protocols to evaluate voice quality and measure its impact on the individual's quality of life. AIM To associate life quality with the degree o...

this study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of applied linguistics research articles published in iranian and international journals. a corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. the corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. the finding...

INTRODUCTION In Italy the number of teachers among private and public schools is around one million. Voice disorders are thought to be one of the major occupational hazards of school teaching; in fact the teachers often use their voice with high-intensity, in noisy classes, for a long time and without suitable breaks. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of voice problems in teache...

This paper presents the concept of a voice profile as a complete description of the distributions of the acoustic correlates and the speaking characteristics of a speaker. A voice profile can be considered as a unified speakerdependent probability model of speech with applications in speaker identification, adaptive speech recognition, voice morphing and text to speech synthesis. The spectral a...

Voice disorders are a common occupational problem especially among voice user population like: teachers, singers and interviewers because their voice is the primary tool for their occupation and they use it frequently in high volume [12]. Voice disorders may affect their quality of life, functions and performance in work leading to frequent absence from work. One study showed that one fifth of ...

AIMS To examine the self-critical thoughts and self-reassuring meta-cognitive capacity of those who hear voices and explore whether they are associated with the theme of voice content and appraisals of voice power and voice expressed emotion. METHOD A cross-sectional design was used, combining semi-structured interviews and self-report measures. Data on symptomatology, self-critical thoughts ...