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ArticleAmerican journal of speech-language pathology2021

Differences Between Female Singers With Phonotrauma and Vocally Healthy Matched Controls in Singing and Speaking Voice Use During 1 Week of Ambulatory Monitoring.

Laura E Toles, Andrew J Ortiz, Katherine L Marks, James A Burns, Tiffiny Hron, Jarrad H Van Stan, Daryush D Mehta, Robert E Hillman

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In one paragraph

Article in American journal of speech-language pathology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05625191 (Defining Clinically Important Differences in Cepstral and Spectral Measures in Individuals With and Without Phonotrauma), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05625191 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Defining Clinically Important Differences in Cepstral and Spectral Measures in Individuals With and Without Phonotrauma

TypeobservationalSponsorUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterRan2023 to 2026Enrolled100ConditionsPhonotraumaArmsAcoustic voice analysis, High-speed videoendoscopy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Psychometric and Acoustic Investigation of Identity and Phonotraumatic Vocal Hyperfunction.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2026
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  3. Vocal Fold Vibratory Kinematics and Acoustic Correlates in Pressed and Breathy Phonation.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026
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  5. The Lived Experience of Phonotrauma: Discussions on Identity and Stigma.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026
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  6. Estimating Pressed and Breathy Phonation From Cepstral and Spectral Measures.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2025
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  9. Closed-loop network of skin-interfaced wireless devices for quantifying vocal fatigue and providing user feedback.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Laura E TolesMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Andrew J OrtizMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Katherine L MarksMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
James A BurnsMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Tiffiny HronMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Jarrad H Van StanMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Daryush D MehtaMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Robert E HillmanMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Harvard University · USMGH Institute of Health Professions · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Use of ambulatory biofeedback to improve behavioral treatment of vocal hyperfunctionP50DC015446 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Robert E Hillman · 2017 to 2026
$25.5M
Ambulatory monitoring of vocal function to improve voice disorder assessmentR33DC011588 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HILLMAN, ROBERT E · 2012 to 2015
$2.3M
NIDCD NIH HHS P50 DC015446NIDCD NIH HHS R33 DC011588
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose Previous ambulatory voice monitoring studies have included many singers and have combined speech and singing in the analyses. This study applied a singing classifier to the ambulatory recordings of singers with phonotrauma and healthy controls to determine if analyzing speech and singing separately would reveal voice use differences that could provide new insights into the etiology and pathophysiology of phonotrauma in this at-risk population. Method Forty-two female singers with phonotrauma (vocal fold nodules or polyps) and 42 healthy matched controls were monitored using an ambulatory voice monitor. Weeklong statistics (average, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis) for sound pressure level (SPL), fundamental frequency, cepstral peak prominence, the magnitude ratio of the first two harmonics (

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SingingVoiceVoice DisordersFemaleHumansMonitoring, AmbulatoryVoice Quality

Identifiers

PMID33472007
PMCPMC8740583
OpenAlexW3124650329

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