Voice training and therapy with a semi-occluded vocal tract: Rationale and scientific underpinnings

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 448-459

  Titze, Ingo R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Denver Center for the Performing Arts   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Resonant voice; Singing; Voice efficiency; Voice therapy; Voice training

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FILTER; GLOTTIS; LARYNX; LIP; OSCILLATION; REVIEW; SEMI OCCLUDED VOCAL TRACT; SPEECH REHABILITATION; VOCAL CORD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 33747848721     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2006/035)     Document Type: Review

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