The impact of dysphonic voices on healthy listeners: listener reaction times, speech intelligibility, and listener comprehension

PM Evitts, H Starmer, K Teets, C Montgomery… - American journal of …, 2016 - ASHA
Purpose There is currently minimal information on the impact of dysphonia secondary to
phonotrauma on listeners. Considering the high incidence of voice disorders with …

Tongue–palate contact pressure, oral air pressure, and acoustics of clear speech

J Searl, PM Evitts - 2013 - ASHA
Purpose The authors compared articulatory contact pressure (ACP), oral air pressure (Po),
and speech acoustics for conversational versus clear speech. They also assessed the …

Lingual–alveolar contact pressure during speech in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: preliminary findings

J Searl, S Knollhoff, RJ Barohn - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2017 - ASHA
Purpose This preliminary study on lingual–alveolar contact pressures (LACP) in people with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) had several aims:(a) to evaluate whether the protocol …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability of the Italian INFVo scale and correlations with objective measures and VHI scores

A Schindler, D Ginocchio, M Atac… - Acta …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The objective of this study was to evaluate the reliability of the INFVo scale and its
relationship with objective measures and VHI scores in 40 native Italian-speaking patients …

The effect of noise on relationships between speech intelligibility and self-reported communication measures in tracheoesophageal speakers

TL Eadie, DS Otero, S Bolt, M Kapsner-Smith… - American Journal of …, 2016 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine how sentence intelligibility relates to self-
reported communication in tracheoesophageal speakers when speech intelligibility is …

Aerodynamic characteristics associated with oesophageal and tracheoesophageal speech of Cantonese

ML Ng - International journal of speech-language pathology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The present study investigated the aerodynamic differences between standard oesophageal
(SE) and tracheoesophageal (TE) speech. Airflow and air pressure values below the …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in Articulatory Contact Pressure as a Function of Vocal Loudness

J Searl, P Evitts - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study evaluated the impact of vocal loudness on the articulatory contact pressure (ACP)
between the tongue and palate during the production of lingua-alveolar consonants …

Lung volumes used during speech breathing in tracheoesophageal speakers

TA Bohnenkamp, KM Forrest… - Annals of Otology …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine how tracheoesophageal (TE)
speakers manipulate lung volumes to meet speech demands and how respiratory …

Sense of effort and fatigue associated with talking after total laryngectomy

J Searl, S Knollhoff - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose Sense of effort and fatigue associated with talking was compared in individuals with
and without a total laryngectomy. Method An online survey of individuals using …

Effects of audio-visual information on the intelligibility of alaryngeal speech

PM Evitts, L Portugal, A Van Dine, A Holler - Journal of communication …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: There is minimal research on the contribution of visual information on
speech intelligibility for individuals with a laryngectomy (IWL). AIMS: The purpose of this …