Over the past several decades, many acoustic markers have been proposed to be sensitive to and measure overall voice quality. This meta-analysis presents a retrospective appraisal of scientific reports, which evaluated the relation between perceived overall voice quality and several acoustic-phonetic correlates. Twenty-five studies met the inclusion criteria and were evaluated using meta-analytic techniques. Correlation coefficients between perceptual judgments and acoustic measures were computed. Where more than one correlation coefficient for a specific acoustic marker was available, a weighted average correlation coefficient was calculated. This was the case in 36 acoustic measures on sustained vowels and in 3 measures on continuous speech. Acoustic measures were ranked according to the strength of the correlation with perceptual voice quality ratings. Acoustic markers with more than one correlation value available in literature and yielding a homogeneous weighted of 0.60 or above were considered to be superior. The meta-analysis identified four measures that met these criteria in sustained vowels and three measures in continuous speech. Although acoustic measures are routinely utilized in clinical voice examinations, the results of this meta-analysis suggest that caution is warranted regarding the concurrent validity and thus the clinical utility of many of these measures.
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November 2009
November 05 2009
Acoustic measurement of overall voice quality: A meta-analysisa)
Youri Maryn;
Youri Maryn
c)
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology,
Sint-Jan General Hospital
, Ruddershove 10, 8000 Bruges, Belgium; Faculty of Health Care Vesalius, University College Ghent
, Keramiekstraat 80, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; and Faculty of Social Health Sciences, University of Ghent
, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Nelson Roy;
Nelson Roy
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Division of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery,
The University of Utah
, 390 South 1530 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0252
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Marc De Bodt;
Marc De Bodt
Department of Communication Disorders,
University Hospital of Antwerp
, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650 Edegem, Belgium and Faculty of Social Health Sciences, University of Ghent
, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Paul Van Cauwenberge;
Paul Van Cauwenberge
Faculty of Medicine and Social Health Sciences,
University of Ghent
, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Paul Corthals
Paul Corthals
Faculty of Health Care Vesalius,
University College Ghent
, Keramiekstraat 80, 9000 Ghent, Belgium and Faculty of Social Health Sciences, University of Ghent
, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: [email protected]
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Portions of this work were presented in “Forty years of acoustic prediction of overall voice quality” at the 7th International Voice Symposium, Austrian Voice Institute, Salzburg, Austria, August 4–6, 2006.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 2619–2634 (2009)
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Received:
July 27 2008
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August 12 2009
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Youri Maryn, Nelson Roy, Marc De Bodt, Paul Van Cauwenberge, Paul Corthals; Acoustic measurement of overall voice quality: A meta-analysis. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 November 2009; 126 (5): 2619–2634. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3224706
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