The Speaking Voice in the General Population: Normative Data and Associations to Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors

Journal of Voice

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 257.e13-257.e24

  Berg, Martin ^a,b   Fuchs, Michael ^a,b   Wirkner, Kerstin ^a   Loeffler, Markus ^a   Engel, Christoph ^a   Berger, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

age; epidemiology; smoking; socioeconomic status; voice range profile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY DESIGN; VOICE; ACOUSTICS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GERMANY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONATION; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUND; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONATION; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUND; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84979651512     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: 18734588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2016.06.001     Document Type: Article

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