Scaling of voice pleasantness and acceptability in tracheoesophageal speakers

Journal of Voice

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 373-383

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Auditory perceptual evaluation; Direct magnitude estimation; Equal appearing interval scales; Pleasantness; Rating scales; Tracheoesophageal speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SPEECH; TRACHEA; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH, ESOPHAGEAL; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 23644447252     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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