Identification of Pathological Voices Using Glottal Noise Measures

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 469-485

  Parsa, Vijay ^a   Jamieson, Donald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic measures of voice; Glottal noise measures; Identification of pathological voice; Linear prediction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VOICE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0034168475     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4302.469     Document Type: Article

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