Changes in teachers' voice quality during a working day with and without electric sound amplification

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 267-280

  Jónsdottir, Valdis ^a,c   Laukkanen, Anne Maria ^b   Siikki, Ilona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI   (Iceland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c Box 462 ^*  (Iceland)

Author keywords

Amplification; Sound pressure level; Spectrum; Vocal fatigue; Vocal loading; Voice quality; Warm up

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; RELIABILITY; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; SCHOOL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH THERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEACHER; TIME; VOICE;

AMPLIFIERS; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0042424539     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072157     Document Type: Article

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