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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

Validation of the Acoustic Breathiness Index in Speakers of Finnish Language.

Elina Kankare, Anne-Maria Laukkanen

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  1. Discriminating hypofunctional and hyperfunctional voice disorders through specific acoustic measures.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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Elina KankareDepartment of Rehabilitation and Psychosocial Support, Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Tampere University Hospital, 33520 Tampere, Finland.
Anne-Maria LaukkanenSpeech and Voice Research Laboratory, Tampere University, 33100 Tampere, Finland.

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Abstract

Breathiness (perception of turbulence noise in the voice) is one of the major components of hoarseness in dysphonic voices. This study aims to validate a multiparameter analysis tool, the Acoustic Breathiness Index (ABI), for quantification of breathiness in the speaking voice, including both sustained vowels and continuous speech. One hundred and eight speakers with dysphonia (28 M, 80 F, mean age 50, SD 15.4 years) and 87 non-dysphonic controls (18 M, 69 F, mean age 42, SD 14 years) volunteered as participants. They read a standard text and sustained vowel /a:/. Acoustic recordings were made using a head-mounted microphone. Acoustic samples were evaluated perceptually by nine voice experts of different backgrounds (speech therapists, vocologists and laryngologists). Breathiness (B) from the GRBAS scale was rated. Headphones were used in the perceptual analysis. The dysphonic and non-dysphonic speakers differed significantly from each other in the auditory perceptual evaluation of breathiness. A significant difference was also found for ABI, which had a mean value of 2.26 (SD 1.15) for non-dysphonic and 3.07 (SD 1.75) for dysphonic speakers. ABI correlated strongly with B (r

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acoustic noise detectiondysphoniaGRBAShoarseness

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