The objectives of this study were to determine the effect of musical background on both pitch
discrimination abilities and the reliability of judging voice quality in dysphonic speakers, and
to determine the relationship between pitch discrimination abilities and the reliability of voice
quality judgments. Twenty musicians and 20 nonmusicians performed pitch discrimination
tests. They also made judgments of dysphonic vowels and speech samples for breathiness
and roughness using 100-mm visual analog scales. Musicians demonstrated significantly …