Dysarthria is an early symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) which has been proposed for
detection and monitoring of the disease with potential for telehealth. However, with inherent …

An algorithm to measure the jitter (jitta, jitter, rap and ppq5) and shimmer (ShdB, Shim, apq3
and apq5) parameters was developed. These parameters can be used in an intelligent …

Abstract Harmonic to Noise Ratio (HNR) measures the ratio between periodic and non-
periodic components of a speech sound. It has become more and more important in the …

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multi-symptom neurodegenerative disease
generally managed with medications, of which levodopa is the most effective. Determining …

Voice acoustic analysis is becoming nowadays a useful tool for detection of laryngological
pathologies. This techniques enables a non-invasive and low cost assessment of voice …

Objectives The application of systemic hydration as an instrument for optimal voice quality
has been a common practice by several professional voice users over the years. Although …

Objective The aim of this study was to describe the effect of superficial hydration, with or
without systemic hydration, on voice quality in future female professional singers by …

Biometrics-based authentication has become the most well-established form of user
recognition in systems that demand a certain level of security. For example, the most …

This paper describes the statistical analysis of a set of features extracted from the speech of
sustained vowels of patients with chronic laryngitis and control subjects. The idea is to …

Objectives Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease leading to motor
impairments and dystonia across diverse muscle groups including vocal muscles. The vocal …