Direct magnitude estimation and interval scaling of pleasantness and severity in dysphonic and normal speakers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 3014-3021

  Eadie, Tanya L ^a   Doyle, Philip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; DATA REDUCTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

VOICE SEVERITY RATINGS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION SCALE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHONIA; EQUAL APPEARING INTERVAL SCALE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATING SCALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOICE; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; LARYNX DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0036981672     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1518983     Document Type: Article

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