Speech and voice range profiles of adults with untrained normal voices: methodological implications

Automatic recordings were made of speech and voice range profiles for 63 vocally healthy Australian men and women without voice training (30 males and 33 females aged 21 to 65 years). Test-retest reliability, evaluated for a subgroup, was high. Speech range profile results were consistent with resul...

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Published inLogopedics, phoniatrics, vocology Vol. 39; no. 2; p. 62
Main Authors Sanchez, Katherine, Oates, Jennifer, Dacakis, Georgia, Holmberg, Eva B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.07.2014
Subjects
Acoustics
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Phonetics
Reference Values
Reproducibility of Results
Sex Factors
Sound Spectrography
Speech Acoustics
Speech Production Measurement
Victoria
Voice Quality
Young Adult
Victoria
voice assessment
Male–female voice
speech range profile
phonetogram
voice range profile
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Summary:Automatic recordings were made of speech and voice range profiles for 63 vocally healthy Australian men and women without voice training (30 males and 33 females aged 21 to 65 years). Test-retest reliability, evaluated for a subgroup, was high. Speech range profile results were consistent with results reported by others. However, voice range profiles were larger than shown in several previous studies. Nevertheless, voice range profiles were consistent with results reported for a recent study that used a similar elicitation and recording protocol and similar equipment. Results are discussed with reference to methodological issues important for reliable phonetogram recordings. The data may also be clinically useful for comparisons between disordered and healthy voices if similar equipment and elicitation and recording protocols are used.
ISSN:1651-2022
DOI:10.3109/14015439.2013.777109