Effects of tonsillectomy on speech spectrum

Journal of Voice

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 580-586

  Ilk, Hakki Gökhan ^a   Eroǧul, Osman ^b   Satar, Bülent ^b   Özkaptan, Yalçin ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Formant bandwidth; Formant center frequency; Fundamental frequency; Speech spectrum; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSONANT; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NOISE TO HARMONIC RATIO; RECORDING; SPEECH; TONSILLECTOMY; VOICE; VOWEL; ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; PHONETICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH DISORDERS; TONSILLECTOMY; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0036988253     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(02)00133-9     Document Type: Article

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