Previous research found a relation between hormones and voice quality; however, the degree and type of this relationship is poorly understood, particularly regarding singing. Singers’ performances can be affected by contraceptive pills and by changes in concentrations of sex steroid hormones during the menstrual cycle (Lã et al., 2007). Pregnancy shows greater variation in concentrations of the...

This paper describes a prototype system for the objective assessment of voice quality in patients recovering from various stages of laryngeal cancer. A large database of male subjects steadily phonating the vowel /i/ was used in the study, and the quality of their voices were independently assessed by a speech and language therapist (SALT) according to their 7-point ranking of subjective voice ...

The articulatory phonology study requires the simultaneous recording of the speech wave and as many articulatory parameters as possible. To this end, for many years,we have developed the integrated PHONART workstation for speech production analysis with the technologies available at the time. It consisted of a PC-compatible computer-driven workstation designed to record and process acoustic spe...