We examined how well typical adult listeners remember the speech of a person with a voice disorder (relative to that of a person without a voice disorder). Participants (n = 40) listened to two lists of words (one list uttered in a disordered voice and the other list uttered in a normal voice). After each list, participants completed a free recall test, in which they tried to remember as many w...

INTRODUCTION Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is considered an important cause of voice disorder. We aimed to determine the frequency of LPR in patients with voice disorder and the association between Koufman Reflux Symptom Index (RSI), Reflux Finding Score (RFS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and proximal acid reflux in these patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a prospective...

Acoustical analysis of speech is considered a favorable and promising approach to objective assessment of voice disorders. Previous research emphasized on the extraction and classification of voice quality features from sustained vowel sounds. In this paper, an investigation on voice assessment using continuous speech utterances of Cantonese is presented. A DNN-HMM based speech recognition syst...

 Background: One third of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have mentioned “dysphonia” as their most debilitating communication deficit. Patient-based measurements, such as Voice Handicap Index (VHI) add necessary supplementary information to clinical and physiological assessment. There are a few studies about relation between VHI and disease severity in PD, although none of them showed an...

BACKGROUND Auditory hallucinations are frequently conceptualized as a disorder of input, whereby random discharges in language-related cortical areas lead to sensory irritations that mimic real voices. Alternatively, auditory hallucinations may represent a disorder of interpretation, whereby none of its four prevalent characteristics (the "four A's of hallucinations": acoustic, alien (i.e., app...

OBJECTIVES To establish the prevalence of voice disorder using the Malay-Voice Handicap Index 10 (Malay-VHI-10) and to study the determinants, quality of life, depression, anxiety and stress associated with voice disorder among secondary school teachers in Peninsular Malaysia. METHODS This study was divided into two phases. Phase I tested the reliability of the Malay-VHI-10 while Phase II was...

Several studies have shown a high prevalence of voice disorders among teachers. However, it is difficult to establish comparisons among the results found given the great variability among criteria and symptoms used to define the presence of vocal alteration, in addition to the variations in the composition of the populations studied (age, gender, origin, working schedule, profession, among othe...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the association between a history of voice disorders and voice-related conditions and the short form-36 eight-scale measure of functional health and well-being as well as psychometrically based physical and mental health summary measures within a senior population. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey completed by 461 individuals aged 50 years and older, Octob...