Investigating acoustic correlates of human vocal fold vibratory phase asymmetry through modeling and laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3999-4009

  Mehta, Daryush D ^a,f   Zañartu, Matías ^b   Quatieri, Thomas F ^c   Deliyski, Dimitar D ^d,g,h   Hillman, Robert E ^a,e,i  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MGH INSTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; CLOSING PHASE; GLOTTAL AREA WAVEFORM; HIGH-SPEED VIDEOENDOSCOPY; HUMAN SUBJECTS; IN-VIVO; INDIRECT CONTROL; MODEL SIMULATION; OPEN PHASE; PARAMETERIZED; SOUND PRODUCTION; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL TILT; VOCAL FOLD VIBRATION; VOCAL FOLDS; VOICE PRODUCTION; VOICE SOURCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOSCOPY;

SPEECH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VIBRATION; VIDEORECORDING; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; PRESSURE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VIBRATION; VIDEO RECORDING; VOCAL CORDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858325005     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3658441     Document Type: Article

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