Impact of aberrant acoustic properties on the perception of sound quality in electrolarynx speech

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 766-779

  Meltzner, Geoffrey S ^a,c   Hillman, Robert E ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaryngeal speech; Artificial larynx speech; Electrolarynx speech; Laryngectomy speech rehabilitation; Speech quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SOUND; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH REHABILITATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 29144445195     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/053)     Document Type: Article

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