The reliability of listeners' ratings of voice quality is a central issue in voice research
because of the clinical primacy of such ratings and because they are the standard against …

A new descriptive framework for voice quality perception (Kreiman, Gerratt, Kempster,
Erman, & Berke, 1993) states that when listeners rate a voice on some quality dimension …

Auditory-perceptual evaluation is the most commonly used clinical voice assessment
method, and is often considered a gold standard for documentation of voice disorders. This …

Although perceptual assessment is included in most protocols for evaluating pathologic
voices, a standard set of valid scales for measuring voice quality has never been …

Voice quality is not clearly defined but it can be concluded that it is a multidimensional
perceived construct. Therefore, there are broadly two approaches to measure voice …

Purpose This article presents the development of the Consensus Auditory-Perceptual
Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) following a consensus conference on perceptual voice quality …

Modeling sources of listener variability in voice quality assessment is the first step in
developing reliable, valid protocols for measuring quality, and provides insight into the …

The validity of perceptual measures of vocal quality has been neglected in studies of voice,
which focus more commonly on rater reliability. Validity depends in part on reliability …

Rating scales are commonly used to study voice quality. However, recent research has
demonstrated that perceptual measures of voice quality obtained using rating scales suffer …

Over the past several decades, many acoustic markers have been proposed to be sensitive
to and measure overall voice quality. This meta-analysis presents a retrospective appraisal …