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ArticleApplied sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Acoustic Identification of the Voicing Boundary during Intervocalic Offsets and Onsets based on Vocal Fold Vibratory Measures.

Jennifer M Vojtech, Dante D Cilento, Austin T Luong, Jacob P Noordzij, Manuel Diaz-Cadiz, Matti D Groll, Daniel P Buckley, Victoria S McKenna, J Pieter Noordzij, Cara E Stepp

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Jennifer M VojtechDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Dante D CilentoDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Austin T LuongDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Jacob P NoordzijDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Manuel Diaz-CadizDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Matti D GrollDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Daniel P BuckleyDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Victoria S McKennaDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
J Pieter NoordzijDepartment of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Cara E SteppDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

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Objective Measures for Clinical Assessment of Voice DisordersR01DC015570 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI STEPP, CARA E. · 2016 to 2025
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NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015570
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Abstract

Methods for automating relative fundamental frequency (RFF)-an acoustic estimate of laryngeal tension-rely on manual identification of voiced/unvoiced boundaries from acoustic signals. This study determined the effect of incorporating features derived from vocal fold vibratory transitions for acoustic boundary detection. Simultaneous microphone and flexible nasendoscope recordings were collected from adults with typical voices (N=69) and with voices characterized by excessive laryngeal tension (N=53) producing voiced-unvoiced-voiced utterances. Acoustic features that coincided with vocal fold vibratory transitions were identified and incorporated into an automated RFF algorithm ("aRFF-APH"). Voiced/unvoiced boundary detection accuracy was compared between the aRFF-APH algorithm, a recently published version of the automated RFF algorithm ("aRFF-AP"), and gold-standard, manual RFF estimation. Chi-square tests were performed to characterize differences in boundary cycle identification accuracy among the three RFF estimation methods. Voiced/unvoiced boundary detection accuracy significantly differed by RFF estimation method for voicing offsets and onsets. Of 7721 productions, 76.0% of boundaries were accurately identified via the aRFF-APH algorithm, compared to 70.3% with the aRFF-AP algorithm and 20.4% with manual estimation. Incorporating acoustic features that corresponded with voiced/unvoiced boundaries led to improvements in boundary detection accuracy that surpassed the gold-standard method for calculating RFF.

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high-speed videoendoscopylaryngeal tensionrelative fundamental frequencyvoice assessment

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PMID36188437
PMCPMC9524108

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