The inability to produce soft voice (IPSV): A tool to detect vocal change in school-teachers

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 117-127

  Halpern, Angela E ^a   Spielman, Jennifer L ^a   Hunter, Eric J ^a   Titze, Ingo R ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inability to produce soft voice (IPSV); Perceptual rating; Vocal fatigue; Voice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COLORADO; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHOOLS; SELF REPORT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 70349686868     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430903062712     Document Type: Article

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