Voice problems are seldom reported in pollen allergy, although the allergic reaction involves the entire airways. The objective of this study was to investigate voice dysfunction during the pollen season in patients with allergic rhinitis. Thirty patients with verified birch pollen allergy and 30 controls were investigated twice, during the pollen season and outside the pollen season. Both time...

OBJECTIVE To review the current published available research into the impact of voice training on the vocal quality of professional voice users, to provide implications for vocal health and recommendations for further research. DESIGN Literature review with a systematic approach. METHODS A systematic search of the literature was conducted using electronic databases and the following defined...

Menopause effects a permanent change in certain body functions, including voice. If the voice is used continually as part of one's occupation, this may further impact on postmenopausal voice changes. The present study investigated individual and combined effects of menopause and professional voice use on voice. Ninety-two women were classified into reproductive (52) and postmenopausal (40) grou...

OBJECTIVES A wide range of well validated instruments is now available to assess voice quality and voice-related quality of life, but comparative studies of the responsiveness to change of these measures are lacking. The aim of this study was to assess the responsiveness to change of a range of different measures, following voice therapy and surgery. DESIGN Longitudinal, cohort comparison stu...

The current study investigated the effect of familiarity with the voice and face of a talker on a subsequent speech intelligibility task. Participants were first familiarized with four animated characters that they learned to identify by voice, by face and by both face and voice. Ceiling level performance was reached. Following this training, participants were given a speech in noise identifica...

Cellular Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) are most prevalent and offer highbandwidth data transfer. We believe WWANs can be availed for voice communications employing Voice Over IP technologies. Such a communication will be of better quality and offer higher resilience compared to voice communication over a cellular phone (using cellular voice networks). We present a Quality of Service analy...

Voice is the essential medium of man's communication in social as well as professional interactions. The human voice also reflects the state of health in many medical conditions which leads voice alterations in patients. This paper presents a voice analysis approach for discriminating the People With Parkinson (PWP) on the basis of extracted voice parameters. Voice analysis basically deals...

This paper describes a technique for controlling voice quality of synthetic speech using multiple regression hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM). In the technique, we assume that the mean vectors of output and state duration distribution of HSMM are modeled by multiple regression with a parameter vector called voice quality control vector. We first choose three features for controlling voice qualit...