Occupational voice complaints and objective acoustic measurements - Do they correlate?

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 147-152

  Lehto, Laura ^a,b   Laaksonen, Laura ^c   Vilkman, Erkki ^b   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic voice analysis; Occupational voice; Questionnaire study; Voice symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECORDING; SELF REPORT; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELEPHONE; VIBRATION SENSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOCAL CORD; WORKING TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 33751218934     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430600654654     Document Type: Article

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