This article reviews current literature on vocal fatigue and considers its potential relationship
to vocal hyperfunction. Vocal fatigue is defined by its symptoms. Specifically, the voice user …

Purpose Voice therapy practice and research, as in most types of rehabilitation, is currently
limited by the lack of a taxonomy describing what occurs during a therapy session (with …

Purpose Voice therapy with a semi-occluded vocal tract has a long history. The use of lip
trills, tongue trills, bilabial fricatives, humming, and phonation into tubes or straws has been …

Human voice recognition via skin-attachable devices has significant potential for gathering
important physiological information from acoustic data without background noise …

To date, there are 300 disorders associated with voice, but until now there has never been a
published reference manual that classifies these disorders. Borrowing from the successful …

Introduction Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises (SOVTE) are often used in voice clinics.
SOVTE change the acoustic vocal tract impedance in relation to the glottis impedance …

Resonant voice, often described in terms of vibratory sensations in the face, is investigated
acoustically by calculating vocal tract inertance. It appears that the ease of production and …

Voice problems are a common occupational hazard of teaching school, yet few studies exist
that have objectively evaluated treatment approaches aimed at rehabilitating these …

Purpose Although there is a long history of use of semi-occluded vocal tract gestures in
voice therapy, including phonation through thin tubes or straws, the efficacy of phonation …

Electroglottography (EGG) is a low-cost, noninvasive technology for measuring changes of
relative vocal fold contact area during laryngeal voice production. EGG was introduced …