ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2023
Development and Validation of a Single-Variable Comparison Stimulus for Matching Strained Voice Quality Using a Psychoacoustic Framework.
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- Multidimensional Perceptual Structure of Pediatric Dysphonia in Children With Glottal and Supraglottal Vibratory Sources.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Acoustic Metrics of the Strain Dimension of Voice Quality: A Scoping Review.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2025Review
- Exploring Objective Correlates to Perceived Severity in the Covarying Breathy, Rough, and Strained Voice Qualities of Dysphonic Voices.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2025Article
- Minimal Detectable Change of Experienced and Novice Listeners' Ratings of Overall Severity of Voice Quality in Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Acoustic and Psychoacoustic Analyses of Predominant Strain Elicited via Modulated Vocal Effort.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2025Article
- The Effect of Rating Method on Reliability of Judgments of Strain Across Populations.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Article
- Evaluating the Effect of Voice Quality Covariance on Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation Using a Novel Two-Dimensional Magnitude Estimation Task.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
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purposeAcoustic and perceptual quantification of vocal strain has been a vexing problem for years. To increase measurement rigor, a suitable single-variable matching stimulus for strain was developed and validated, based on the matching stimulus used previously for breathy and rough voice qualities.
methodA set of 21 comparison stimuli for a single-variable matching task (SVMT) was synthesized based on a speech-shaped sawtooth waveform mixed with speech-shaped noise. Variable bandpass filter gain in mid-to-high frequencies achieved a wide range of computed sharpness (in constant sharpness steps) and served as the independent variable for the SVMT. Ten natural /ɑ/ stimuli with a wide range of the primary voice quality of strain and a minimum of breathiness or roughness were selected and assessed using the SVMT. Natural voice samples and synthetic comparison stimuli were also assessed using a perceptual magnitude estimation (ME) task.
resultsME data validated the correspondence of the set of comparison stimuli to varying perceived strain. Perceived strain magnitudes of the comparison stimuli increased significantly and linearly with computed sharpness (
conclusionThe perception of vocal strain is strongly associated with computed sharpness and is captured accurately and precisely using an SVMT, in which the independent variable is the bandpass filter gain (in steps of equal sharpness) applied to the comparison stimuli.
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