Purpose The aim of this study was to recommend protocols for instrumental assessment of
voice production in the areas of laryngeal endoscopic imaging, acoustic analyses, and …

Most patients with movement disorders have speech impairments resulting from
sensorimotor abnormalities that affect phonatory, articulatory, and prosodic speech …

Purpose Data on vowel formants have been derived primarily from static measures
representing an assumed steady state. This review summarizes data on formant frequencies …

Purpose The aim of this study was to provide a systematic review of the aspects of verbal
communication contributing to listener perceptions of speaker gender with a view to …

Purpose Sound pressure level (SPL) measurement of voice and speech is often considered
a trivial matter, but the measured levels are often reported incorrectly or incompletely …

Human language stands out in the natural world as a biological signal that uses a structured
system to combine the meanings of small linguistic units (eg, words) into larger constituents …

Background Worldwide use of nose-and-mouth-covering respiratory protective mask (RPM)
has become ubiquitous during COVID19 pandemic. Consequences of wearing RPMs …

The genetic basis of the human vocal system is largely unknown, as are the sequence
variants that give rise to individual differences in voice and speech. Here, we couple data on …

Background: Experimental studies using qualitative or quantitative analysis have
demonstrated that the human voice progressively worsens with ageing. These studies …

Voice is a major means of communication for humans, non-human mammals and many
other vertebrates like birds and anurans. The physical and physiological principles of voice …