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ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2018

The relationship between acoustical and perceptual measures of vocal effort.

Victoria S McKenna, Cara E Stepp

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Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Characterization of upper esophageal sphincter pressures relative to vocal acoustics.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2025
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  14. Effects of Sidetone Amplification on Vocal Function During Telecommunication.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2023
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  19. Automated Relative Fundamental Frequency Algorithms for Use With Neck-Surface Accelerometer Signals.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Victoria S McKennaDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Cara E SteppDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.

Funding

Advanced Research Training in Communication Sciences and DisordersT32DC013017 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI Cara E. Stepp · 2016 to 2026
$4.9M
Objective Measures for Clinical Assessment of Voice DisordersR01DC015570 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI STEPP, CARA E. · 2016 to 2025
$4.8M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015570NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC013017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Excessive vocal effort is a common clinical voice symptom, yet the acoustical manifestation of vocal effort and how that is perceived by speakers and listeners has not been fully elucidated. Here, 26 vocally healthy adults increased vocal effort during the production of the utterance /ifi/, followed by self-ratings of effort on a 100 mm visual analog scale. Twenty inexperienced listeners assessed the speakers' vocal effort using the visual sort-and-rate method. Previously proposed acoustical correlates of vocal effort were calculated, including: mean sound pressure level (SPL), mean fundamental frequency (

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Speech AcousticsAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleSpeech PerceptionSpeech Production MeasurementVoice DisordersVoice QualityYoung Adult

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PMID30424674
PMCPMC6167228

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