This treatise on hoarseness is intended for primary care physicians and mid-level providers. It is produced by the Center for the Care of the Professional Voice, part of the Haben Practice for Voice & Laryngeal Laser Surgery, PLLC, specializing in voice disorders and laryngology in Rochester, NY. It provides a comprehensive listing of common voice disorders, key elements of the patient’s histor...

Deformation of middle crustal shear zones likely varies with time as a result of the stress build-up and release associated with earthquakes and post-seismic deformation, but the processes involved and their microstructural signature in the rock record are poorly understood. We conducted a series of experiments on quartzite at 900 C to characterize microstructures associated with changes in str...

background : a head and neck (h&n;) cancer severely affect the voice and compromises the patient’s vocal independence. the present study proposed to investigate the difference in the three vital components of voice the pitch, jitter and shimmer in h&n; cancer patients and compared it with age matched healthy volunteers. methods : the voice parameters were ascertained in the freshly diagnosed h&...

PURPOSE To adapt the URICA questionnaire to assess the motivational stages of patients undergoing voice treatment, and to determine the association between these stages with age, type of dysphonia, level of education, profession, and number of voice therapy sessions. METHODS A cross-sectional study design was employed, using a convenience sample composed of 66 dysphonic patients--women and ei...

Jitter and shimmer voice-quality measurements have been successfully used to detect voice pathologies and classify different speaking styles. In this paper, we investigate the usefulness of jitter and shimmer voice measurements in the framework of the speaker diarization task. The combination of jitter and shimmer voice-quality features with the long-term prosodic and shortterm spectral feature...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 2012 speaker recognition evaluation posed several new challenges including noisy data, varying test-sample length and number of enrollment samples, and a new metric. Target speakers were known during system development and could be used for model training and score normalization. For the evaluation, SRI International (SRI) submitted a sy...

Purpose: To adapt the URICA questionnaire to assess the motivational stages of patients undergoing voice treatment, and to determine the association between these stages with age, type of dysphonia, level of education, profession, and number of voice therapy sessions. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was employed, using a convenience sample composed of 66 dysphonic patients – 58 women an...

This study tested the influence and mechanisms of servant leadership on voice behavior, including the mediating role of psychological safety, and the moderating role of supervisor-subordinate Guanxi. Data were collected from 430 civil servants and their immediate supervisors in Changsha, China. Cross-Level investigation revealed that servant leadership had a significant influence on voice behav...

Singing voice detection is essential for contentbased applications such as those involving melody extraction and singer identification. This article is concerned with the accurate detection of singing voice phrases in north Indian classical vocal music. The component sound sources in such music fit into a typical framework (voice, rhythm and drone). We have used this a-priori knowledge to enhan...

We address interactive voice services over Best E ort packet networks where tra c is subject to unpredictable congestions. The quality of voice services can be signi cantly a ected by network delay and jitter due to the rejection of late packets. LIFO has proven to be an interesting overload strategy in delay constrained systems. We propose the use of the LIFO discipline in the context of conge...