Integrative review and framework of suggested mechanisms in primary muscle tension dysphonia

M Desjardins, C Apfelbach, M Rubino… - Journal of Speech …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Despite the high prevalence of primary muscle tension dysphonia (MTD-1), its
underlying mechanisms and their interrelationships have yet to be fully identified. The …

An updated theoretical framework for vocal hyperfunction

RE Hillman, CE Stepp, JH Van Stan, M Zañartu… - American Journal of …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint article is to facilitate research on vocal hyperfunction
(VH). VH is implicated in the most commonly occurring types of voice disorders, but there …

Extraction and utilization of excitation information of speech: A review

SR Kadiri, P Alku, B Yegnanarayana - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech production can be regarded as a process where a time-varying vocal tract system
(filter) is excited by a time-varying excitation. In addition to its linguistic message, the speech …

The relationship between acoustical and perceptual measures of vocal effort

VS McKenna, CE Stepp - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Excessive vocal effort is a common clinical voice symptom, yet the acoustical manifestation
of vocal effort and how that is perceived by speakers and listeners has not been fully …

Differences in weeklong ambulatory vocal behavior between female patients with phonotraumatic lesions and matched controls

JH Van Stan, DD Mehta, AJ Ortiz, JA Burns… - Journal of Speech …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose Previous work using ambulatory voice recordings has shown no differences in
average vocal behavior between patients with phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction and …

Differences in daily voice use measures between female patients with nonphonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction and matched controls

JH Van Stan, AJ Ortiz, JP Cortes, KL Marks… - Journal of Speech …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of
the pathophysiology and impact on daily voice use of nonphonotraumatic vocal …

Ambulatory assessment of phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction using glottal airflow measures estimated from neck-surface acceleration

JP Cortés, VM Espinoza, M Ghassemi, DD Mehta… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction (PVH) is associated with chronic misuse and/or abuse
of voice that can result in lesions such as vocal fold nodules. The clinical aerodynamic …

LaDIVA: A neurocomputational model providing laryngeal motor control for speech acquisition and production

HR Weerathunge, GA Alzamendi, GJ Cler… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Many voice disorders are the result of intricate neural and/or biomechanical impairments
that are poorly understood. The limited knowledge of their etiological and …

[HTML][HTML] The difference between first and second harmonic amplitudes correlates between glottal airflow and neck-surface accelerometer signals during phonation

DD Mehta, VM Espinoza, JH Van Stan… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Miniature high-bandwidth accelerometers on the anterior neck surface are used in
laboratory and ambulatory settings to obtain vocal function measures. This study compared …

Do phonatory aerodynamic and acoustic measures in connected speech differ between vocally healthy adults and patients diagnosed with muscle tension dysphonia …

MA Belsky, SD Rothenberger, AI Gillespie… - Journal of Voice, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives One of the presumed etiologies of primary muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) is a
respiratory-phonatory disruption resulting in poor phonatory airflow in speech; however, few …