BACKGROUND One of the great difficulties in evaluating a voice is the judgment of quality through the perceptual auditive analysis--although frequently used--, as it is influenced by socioeconomic and cultural aspects as well as individual preferences. Many are the adjectives and methods used in this assessment, especially because of the subjectivity involved in the process, leading to incompat...

The vertical position of the larynx seems to be relevant to voice function. As a high vertical larynx position is often seen in hyperfunctional and strained voices, a lowering of a habitually elevated larynx is sometimes a specific goal in clinical voice therapy and different larynx-lowering exercises are used to achieve this goal. Earlier investigations have shown that pitch and to some extent...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of two speech therapy interventions, vocal warm-up and breathing training, focusing on teachers' voice quality.METHODS A single-blind, randomized, parallel clinical trial was conducted. The research included 31 20 to 60-year old teachers from a public school in Salvador, BA, Northeasatern Brazil, with minimum workloads of 20 hours a week, who have or have ...

The sample of this research were seven children with neuro-motoric disorders (of both sexes3 girls and 4 boys). Acoustic analysis of voice parameters, representing variables in this research (fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, harmonic to noise ratio as well as maximum duration of the vowel /a/) has been made by using EZ Voice Plus program for voice analysis. The results of correlation mat...