S Voice Research Articles

Clinical effect of voice therapy in the treatment of teachers' voice disorders patients combined subjective and objective assessment

Objective To explore the curative effectiveness of comprehensive voice training methods on teachers' voice disorders patients by using subjective and objective assessment. Methods Forty-seven teachers' voice disorders patients suffering from voice symptoms without organic disease and complete follow-up data as the research object were treated with a three-month comprehensive voice training program. Training content included relieving laryngeal muscle tension, improving the throat vocal cord movement and reconstruction methods of pronunciation. The use of voice acoustic analysis and voice handicap index(VHI) were compared before and after training. Results The jitter and shimmer were significantly decreased after comprehensive voice training from 1.06(0.79,1.38)% and 2.71(2.16,3.24)% to 0.78(0.59, 0.99)% and 1.64(1.03,2.45)%, the differences were significant (Z=3.249,-4.121, P<0.05). Maximum phonation time and dysphonia severity index were significantly increased obviously from (9.87±2.61)s and-2.23±0.75 to (12.81±1.97)s and-0.43±1.65 respectively, the differences were significant (t=-6.057,-5.273, P<0.05). After the training, the VHI score of voice disorder index decreased from (37.41±4.96)points to (26.31±4.29) points after the comprehensive voice training. In addition to emotional function, the difference was statistically significant(t=12.715, 5.881, 11.483, P<0.05). Conclusions Voice training can reduce the degree of voice disorders effectively, increase the power of the respiratory system, therefore improve the voice quality of teachers with voice disorders. The subjective and objective combination assessment can evaluate the quality of the patient′s voice more thoroughly and evaluate the clinical efficacy of voice training further. Key words: Voice disorders; Teachers; Voice training; Acoustic analysis; Voice Handicap Index

Anne Marie Reynolds: Carl Nielsen’s Voice. His songs in context

Anne Marie Reynolds: Carl Nielsen’s Voice. His songs in context

Recovering Charles Wesley‘s voice: opportunities, obstacles and achievements

Recovering Charles Wesley‘s voice: opportunities, obstacles and achievements

Sistema de Comando Remoto por Voz para un Móvil

This document presents a study of some of the main technologies available for speech recognition and wireless communications. Also the implementation of a mobile system is presented, this mobile is able to respond to the user´s voice, by using of efficient methods for the movement control. The speech recognition system of voice commands obtained after evaluation of several options, was achieved through the use of integrated circuit HM2007, which is implemented in a neuronal network, for vocal commands identification. The commands are codified and transmitted later by infrared way. The information arrives at the mobile and is processed by the control digital systems, which govern of direct way his behavior. The speech recognition system is portable and independent of mobile, which it commands of remote form to, so that it could be adapted to other tasks, that imply the speech control .

Nursing??s Voice in Selecting an HIS

Nursing??s Voice in Selecting an HIS