Journal of Voice
Volume 24, Issue 5 , Pages 540-555 , September 2010

Toward Improved Ecological Validity in the Acoustic Measurement of Overall Voice Quality: Combining Continuous Speech and Sustained Vowels

  • Youri Maryn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Sint-Jan General Hospital, Bruges, Belgium
    • Faculty of Health Care Vesalius, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery and Speech-Language Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to Youri Maryn, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Sint-Jan General Hospital, Ruddershove 10, 8000 Bruges, Belgium.
    • ,
  • Paul Corthals

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health Care Vesalius, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery and Speech-Language Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
    • ,
  • Paul Van Cauwenberge

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery and Speech-Language Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
    • ,
  • Nelson Roy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • ,
  • Marc De Bodt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery and Speech-Language Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Disorders, University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium

Received 7 November 2008 ,Accepted 31 December 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.12.014

Journal of Voice
Volume 24, Issue 5 , Pages 540-555 , September 2010

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