Effects of vocal loudness on nasalance measures

Watterson, Thomas; York, Sharon L.; McFarlane, Stephen C.

doi:10.1016/0021-9924(94)90004-3

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“…In 50 non-cleft adults an increase of intensity (speaking in a louder voice) showed a small but significant decrease in nasalance scores for the oronasal and oral reading passages. These findings are in contrast with the results of Watterson et al [8] . In 30 non-cleft subjects they found no significant difference across three conditions of vocal loudness for an oral passage but there was a tendency for the subjects' lowest nasalance scores to occur in the loudest vocal condition during reading of the nasal passage but not for an oral and oronasal passage.…”

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The Impact of Vocal Intensity and Pitch Modulation on Nasalance Scores: A Pilot Study

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Cardinael

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of pitch and intensity modulation on nasalance scores. Methods: A single-group pretest-posttest design was used in which subjects produced reading passages at different pitch and intensity levels. The Nasometer™ was used for the registration of nasalance scores in subjects with and without cleft palate. Results: An increase in intensity in the non-cleft group resulted in a small but significant decrease in nasalance. Lowering the pitch level resulted in a small but significant decrease in nasalance scores for both the non-cleft and cleft palate subjects. Conclusions: The nasalance changes after vocal modulations during connected speech are reliable and not biased but the impact of these vocal changes on speech intelligibility and daily communication and the usefulness of these vocal modulations as part of a behavioral management program is not yet proven.

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“…auditory-perceptual signs of velopharyngeal disorders) with increased vocal intensity in cleft palate subjects. Watterson et al [8] evaluated the effect of vocal loudness on measures of nasalance in 30 young adult females. The nasalance scores did not differ significantly across three conditions of vocal loudness for the oral passage.…”

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“…This again supports the argument by Koike et al [46] that the presence of a lesion is not necessarily related to the perception of vocal distortion. Once again, the judges placed the male voices at a point along a scale of three laryngeal tone qualities, guiding their evaluations chiefly by attributes of pitch (low-high) and loudness (low-high), with resonance characteristics in second place (hyper-hyponasal) [39,58]. It may also be observed that the judges related both roughness and hoarseness to low pitch, the distinguishing factor being perceived intensity.…”

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“…On the basis of these data, we may conclude that the most prominent perceptual characteristic of rough voice is higher intensity, while that of hoarseness is low pitch and low intensity. Additionally, both vocal qualities are perceived as lacking nasal resonance and are evaluated as more severely dysphonic or disordered than normal-rated voices [58].…”

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Acoustic and Perceptual Indicators of Normal and Pathological Voice

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The aim of this study was to obtain acoustic correlates to vocal quality of a group of men and women with and without voice disorders, based on evaluations of a group of judges experienced in the field of vocal rehabilitation. In male subjects, perceptual evaluation of normal, hoarse and rough voice qualities was related to the following acoustic features: frequency perturbation measures (JITA, RAP, and SPPQ), amplitude perturbation (SAPQ and VAM), soft phonation index (SPI) and fundamental frequency tremor intensity (FTRI). While these measures presented normal values for normal voice, hoarseness showed some deviations in perturbation frequency variables and very high SPI values, while rough voice showed deviations in all the measures. Qualities of female voices were perceived as normal, breathy and hoarse, but the acoustic correlates of these qualities were less conclusive.

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“…Prior studies on manipulation of speaking rate and vocal a) Electronic mail: prong@ku.edu effort have led to various findings that show inconsistent effects of rate and vocal effort adjustments on the nasality of speech. [7][8][9][10] Although information on direct assessment of the effect of oropharyngeal articulation on hypernasal speech is scant, studies of oral-nasal vowel contrasts in various languages demonstrate that speakers adapt both velar position and oropharyngeal articulatory placement for achieving the acoustic contrast between oral and nasal vowels. [11][12][13][14][15] Oropharyngeal articulatory differences between oral and nasal vowels are evidenced in a variety of languages with phonemic nasalization.…”

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Modeling of oropharyngeal articulatory adaptation to compensate for the acoustic effects of nasalization

Rong

Kuehn

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2016

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Associations between tongue movement pattern consistency and formant movement pattern consistency in response to speech behavioral modifications The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, 3728 (2016) 1070-1082 (1973)]. In this study, a speaker-adaptive articulatory model was developed to simulate speaker-customized oropharyngeal articulatory adaptation to compensate for the acoustic effects of nasalization on /a/, /i/, and /u/. The results demonstrated that (1) the oropharyngeal articulatory adaptation effectively counteracted the effects of nasalization on the second lowest formant frequency (F2) and partially compensated for the effects of nasalization on vowel space (e.g., shifting and constriction of vowel space) and (2) the articulatory adaptation strategies generated by the speaker-adaptive model might be more efficacious for counteracting the acoustic effects of nasalization compared to the adaptation strategies generated by the standard articulatory model in Rong and Kuehn. The findings of this study indicated the potential of using oropharyngeal articulatory adaptation as a means to correct maladaptive articulatory behaviors and to reduce nasality.

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Effects of vocal loudness on nasalance measures

Cited by 31 publications

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The Impact of Vocal Intensity and Pitch Modulation on Nasalance Scores: A Pilot Study

The Impact of Vocal Intensity and Pitch Modulation on Nasalance Scores: A Pilot Study

Acoustic and Perceptual Indicators of Normal and Pathological Voice

Modeling of oropharyngeal articulatory adaptation to compensate for the acoustic effects of nasalization

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