Researchers evaluating voice disorder interventions currently have a plethora of voice outcome measurement tools from which to choose. Faced with such a wide choice, it would be beneficial to establish a clear rationale to guide selection. This article reviews the published literature on the three main areas of voice outcome assessment: (1) perceptual rating of voice quality, (2) acoustic measu...

Methods: Two long distance evaluations were performed using audio, video, internet streaming, and internet encoding and decoding technology. Both patients were examined at our tertiary care center via flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy with stroboscopy and the audio and video was streamed in real time to distant locations for consultative review. A piano accompanist was able to perform with the p...

OBJECTIVE Anecdotally, it has been observed that in some healthy middle-aged men, who have neither vocal complaints nor known vocal pathology, asymmetries of the mucosal wave exist when examined videostroboscopically. This may cause concern on the part of the otolaryngologist, who might consider mucosal wave asymmetries to be a forewarning of subclinical pathology and subject the patient to unn...