The purpose of this literature review is to describe and discuss instrumental assessment
techniques of the velopharyngeal function in order to diagnose velopharyngeal disorders …

Speech signals provide both linguistic information (eg, words and sentences) as well as
information about the speaker who produced the message (ie, social‐indexical information) …

Purpose The primary purpose of this study was to compare percent correct word and
sentence intelligibility scores for individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's …

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the study were (1) to determine differences in judgments of
overall severity (OS) and vocal effort (VE) of dysphonic speech when judgments were made …

Purpose To determine the effect of auditory anchors on judgments of overall severity (OS)
and vocal effort (VE) in dysphonic speech when judgments are made by experienced and …

Purpose To determine whether experienced and inexperienced listeners rate
postthyroidectomy voice samples similarly using the Consensus Auditory-Perceptual …

Background Using their voices in inappropriate working conditions causes teachers to
misuse their voices, because in order to be heard they need to force their voices. Objective …

Objective: The voice low tone to high tone ratio (VLHR) is defined as the power ratio of low
frequency to high frequency energy obtained by dividing the voice spectrum with a specific …

Purpose: Auditory training has been shown to reduce rater variability in perceptual voice
assessment. Because rater variability is also a central issue in the auditory-perceptual …

Introduction Listener training is necessary to achieve agreement between perceptual
ratings. However, evidence is limited regarding the effect of a training in the perceptual …