This article discusses Clement of Alexandria’s doctrine of Scripture based on the terms “voice” of God, “first principle,” and “demonstration” that he uses for Scripture. By studying the usage of these terms and the related passages, it will be made clear that Clement regards Scripture as a vessel of God’s voice, favoring what is now called the theory of verbal inspiration. Mo...

Vocal fold tissue lesions such as nodules and polyps are thought to develop in response to mechanical stress that occurs during vocal fold collision. Two computational models of vocal fold collision during voice production are used to investigate this hypothesis. A one-dimensional lumped mass model, whose parameters are derived from vocal fold tissue dimensions and material properties, predicts...

Our study investigates the potential of modeling the vocal expression of human attitudes based on a limited set of prosodic and voice quality parameters and their subsequent synthetic realization. Four attitudes (uncertainty, sincerity, surprise and doubt) were taken into account. For two utterances, a set of acoustic prosodic (F0, intensity, duration) and voice quality parameters (jitter, shim...

Speech and song are universal forms of vocalization that may share aspects of emotional expression. Research has focused on parallels in acoustic features, overlooking facial cues to emotion. In three experiments, we compared moving facial expressions in speech and song. In Experiment 1, vocalists spoke and sang statements each with five emotions. Vocalists exhibited emotion-dependent movements...

BACKGROUND Acoustic vocal parameters measure frequency, intensity (amplitude), perturbation (jitter and shimmer) and dynamic range of the voicing vocal folds. Studies have established that a normal standard data is necessary for acoustic analysis. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study is to standardise Jitter, shimmer, harmonic to noise ratio (HNR) and fundamental frequency (F0) for young ad...

BACKGROUND The use of cochlear implant results in the optimization of speech perception, and, as a consequence in the development of oral language, speech and voice of its users, demonstrating to be one of the most effective and promising technologies to remedy hearing loss. However, little has been studied about the relationship between auditory skills and the voice of children using cochlear ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This paper reviews recent evidence regarding the validity and reliability of acoustic voice analysis in routine clinical assessments. The current role of jitter and shimmer, the most-used indices, and how their clinical application might be improved are evaluated. RECENT FINDINGS Even though the evidence is limited, acoustic analysis is widely used to assist differential dia...

As a monitoring service technology, Fujitsu has developed a way to process voice signals in order to detect the level of a person’s stress based on their conversation, and also developed prototypes of a terminal—center linking system using smartphones, which are increasingly becoming widespread, to evaluate the system’s operation. This technology is intended to be used to detect problems betwee...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was estimation of glottis morphology and perceptive-acoustic characteristics of voice and speech in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA). MATERIAL AND METHODS 77 patients (51 women and 15 men), 19-77 years of age (average 56,7) with recognized RA. The disease duration was from 1 month to 29 (average 9,4) years. Laryngeal, phoniatric examination ...

BACKGROUND Speech production and speech phonetic features gradually improve in children by obtaining audio feedback after cochlear implantation or using hearing aids. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate automated classification of voice disorder in children with cochlear implantation and hearing aids. METHODS We considered 4 disorder categories in children's voice using the foll...