Vocal tract resonance characteristics of adults with obstructive sleep apnea

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 760-763

  Robb, M P ^a   Yates, J ^b   Morgan, E J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Airway obstruction; Formant bandwidth; Formant frequency

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOCAL CORD; VOWEL;

EID: 0030805408     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489709113474     Document Type: Article

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