Effects of two-month vocal exercising with and without spectral biofeedback on student actors' speaking voice

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 66-76

  Laukkanen, Anne Maria ^a   Syrjä, Tiina ^a   Laitala, Marja ^a   Leino, Timo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

F0; LTAS; SPL; Visual feedback; Voice quality; Voice training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; SOUND LEVEL METER; SOUND PRESSURE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH THERAPY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VOICE;

ADULT; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 3142755722     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430410034479     Document Type: Article

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