Reliable jitter and shimmer measurements in voice clinics: The relevance of vowel, gender, vocal intensity, and fundamental frequency effects in a typical clinical task

Journal of Voice

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-53

  Brockmann, Meike ^a   Drinnan, Michael J ^b   Storck, Claudio ^c   Carding, Paul N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fundamental frequency; Gender; Jitter; Shimmer; Voice assessments; Voice intensity; Vowel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE; VOICE AMPLITUDE; VOICE FREQUENCY; VOWEL;

ADULT; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHONATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651325306     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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