Comparison of nasalance scores obtained with the Nasometer, the NasalView, and the OroNasal System

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 423-433

  Bressmann, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cleft lip and palate; Hypernasality; Instrumental analysis; Nasalance; NasalView; Nasometer; Oronasal system; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NASALANCE SCORING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 22244449628     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/03-029.1     Document Type: Article

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