The spectral patterns in a signal obtained with an accelerometer microphone attached to the nose as an indicator for nasality in normal speech will be described for individual vowels. Simultaneously to that recording a film has been made with a fiberendoscope, showing the opening of the velar port to control for acoustic coupling of the oral and the nasal cavity.

The Project "The dialect of Rahovec and the surrounding area" is fifteen years work dialectologists sociolinguistics issues this area. During description linguistic situation area, we have found meeting points with those whole north-east gege dialect. best matches been in Ratkoc’s areal. Whereas two other areala, Krusha, come across some differentiating points, whether phonetic, morphologic or ...

New developments are presented and discussed for the interactive display and separate measurement of frication and nasality in addition to voice quality. Different clinical problems require different therapeutic and quantitative approaches and these are ideally supported by appropriate combinations of speech pattern elements. Particular use has been made of the laryngograph signal in order to s...

OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this study is to determine the treatment effectiveness of pharyngeal flap surgery by measuring speech outcome 1 year after surgery. The authors hypothesized that flap surgery is an effective technique for velopharyngeal inadequacy resulting in improved intelligibility, decreased hypernasality and nasalance scores and normal voice characteristics. PATIENTS AND MET...