Journal of Voice

OBJECTIVE: Prospective laryngology fellows have limited opportunities to learn about fellowship programs besides personal conversations with program directors and mentors. Online information about fellowships may optimize the laryngology match process. The purpose of this study was to assess the utility of online information about laryngology fellowship programs through analysis of program websites and surveying current and recent laryngology fellows. METHODS: The websites of 20 laryngology fellowship programs were analyzed for the presence of 18 unique criteria, previously described in the literature...

INTRODUCTION: In clinical practice, sustained phonation is mostly used for acoustic voice measurements, while perceptual evaluation is based on connected speech. Since sustained phonation could be associated with the use of the singing voice, and since vocal registers are more relevant for singing rather than speech, it is unclear if vocal registers contribute to observable vocal fold contact differences between sustained phonation and speech. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Sustained phonation (vowel [a] on comfortable pitch and loudness) and connected speech (German text: Der Nordwind und die Sonne) were analyzed for 1216 subjects (426 with and 790 without dysphonia) using the Laryngograph system (combining electroglottography and audio recordings)...

OBJECTIVES: A range of professions experience high demands on their voices and are potentially at risk of developing voice disorders. Teachers have been studied extensively in this respect, while voiceover artists are a growing professional group with unknown levels of voice training, voice problems and voice care attitudes. To better understand profession-specific voice care requirements, we compared voice training, voice care habits and self-reported voice problems of these two professional groups and measured attitudes to voice care, informed by the Health Belief Model (HBM)...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the recent literature for voice acoustic data values reported for individuals without voice disorder through the lifespan as a means to develop an updated normative acoustic data resource for children and adults. METHODS: A scoping review was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist. English language, full-text publications were identified through Medline (EBSCO & OVID), PubMed, APA PsycINFO, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and ProQuest Theses and Dissertations Global...

OBJECTIVE: Clinical assessment of voice quality (VQ) often uses a combination of sustained phonations and more prolonged and more complex vocalizations. The purpose of this study was to compare the perceived vocal breathiness and vocal roughness of sustained phonations and connected speech over a wide range of dysphonia severity and to evaluate their relationship with acoustic measures and bioinspired models of breathiness and roughness. METHODS: VQ dimension-specific single-variable matching task (SVMT) was used to index the perceived breathiness or roughness of five male and five female talkers on the basis of a sustained /a/ phonation and the 5th CAPE-V sentence...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To prospectively establish a normative value for the validated Singing Voice Handicap Index-10 (SVHI-10) patient reported outcome measure (PROM). STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cross-sectional study. METHODS: Adult singers without voice complaints were prospectively invited to complete a demographics questionnaire followed by the SVHI-10. Participants were excluded if they had sought medical care for voice changes within the last year or currently had throat problems...

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OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a straw phonation exercise program in preventing voice problems in telephone customer service staff. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective study. METHODS: Twenty-eight participants with no obvious voice problems were placed into two groups: the experimental (n = 13) and control (n = 15) groups. The experimental group received voice hygiene instructions and participated in a 3-week straw phonation exercise program, while the control group only received voice hygiene instructions...

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the added value of steroid injection following office-based blue laser therapy of benign lesions of the vocal folds. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort analysis. METHODS: The medical records and video-recordings of patients with benign lesions of the vocal folds who underwent office-based blue laser therapy in a tertiary referral center between February 2020 and October 2022 were reviewed. Patients were divided into two subgroups, those who underwent office-based blue laser therapy alone (n = 23) and those who underwent office-based blue laser therapy with steroid injection (n = 19)...

OBJECTIVES: Trauma related to chronic cough and forceful glottal closure has been associated with lesions of the vocal process; however, there is limited description of cough leading to membranous vocal fold lesions. We present a series of mid-membranous vocal fold lesions in a cohort of patients with chronic cough, with a proposed mechanism of lesion formation. METHODS: Patients treated for chronic cough with membranous vocal fold lesions affecting phonation were identified...

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of the longterm-use of surgical face mask (SFM) on acoustic and auditory-perceptual voice parameters in normophonic subjects without any known risk factor related to voice disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Of 73 normophonic subjects who were previously included in a couple of studies before the COVID-19 outbreak, 25 people (18 female and 7 male) who were free of any known risk factor related to voice disorders during the outbreak were re-evaluated to assess the long-term effect of SFM on voice by using acoustic (mean F0, Jitter-local, Shimmer-local, Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP), Noise to Harmonic Ratio (NHR), maximum phonation time (MPT)) and auditory-perceptual (Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice, CAPE-V) parameters and those data found in SFM period were compared with the previous (preSFM) data...

OBJECTIVES: This case report aims to identify local allergic reaction as a rare complication of vocal fold injection augmentation with carboxymethylcellulose and discuss the management of airway swelling following this reaction. INTRODUCTION: Glottis insufficiency due to true vocal fold immobility is important to manage to reduce risk of aspiration and improve voice function. Vocal fold injection augmentation with carboxymethylcellulose is considered a safe and effective treatment for glottis insufficiency, commonly due to vocal fold immobility...

OBJECTIVES: The primary aim was to compare two methods for perceptual evaluation of voice - paired comparison (PC) and visual analog scale (VAS) ratings. Secondary aims were to assess the correspondence between two dimensions of voice- overall severity of voice quality and resonant voice, and to investigate the influence of rater experience on perceptual rating scores and rating confidence scores. STUDY DESIGN: Experimental design. METHODS: Voice samples from six children (pre and post therapy) were rated by 15 Speech-Language Pathologists specialized in voice...

OBJECTIVE: Voice therapy is the primary treatment modality for voice rehabilitation. Specific patient-ability factors beyond patient-characteristic factors (eg, disorder diagnosis, age, etc.), that influence individual patient responses to voice treatment remain largely unknown. The goal of the current study was to determine the relationship between patient-perceived improvements in both the sound and feel of voice during stimulability assessment and voice therapy outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective Cohort study...

OBJECTIVE: In order to establish the ideal anesthetic protocol in thyroplasty type I surgery, where the intraoperative voice test is used to guide the medialization of the paralyzed fold, we have studied the effects of a sedation with midazolam premedication and adjusted intravenous doses of propofol and remifentanil on voice quality in patients without vocal fold pathology undergoing otorhinolaryngology surgery other than thyroplasty. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cross-sectional study included 40 adult patients...

PURPOSE: To explore long-term patient experience of treated and untreated presbylarynges patients two or more years after their previous clinic visit by their responses to a probe about the changes in voice (better, stable, or worse) and standardized rating scales either by phone or from clinic records. Congruences of rating differences between visits and probe responses were assessed. METHODS: Thirty-seven participated prospectively and seven retrospectively. Better, stable, or worse probe responses and treatment follow-through were obtained...

PURPOSE: Considering cepstral analysis of voice as a measure of overall severity of dysphonia, we tried to investigate if these measures could be considered as a metric of vocal fatigue as well. Since voice quality changes are seen as a result of vocal fatigue, we wanted to find out if there were any correlations between the cepstral measures, vocal fatigue symptoms, and auditory perceptual evaluation of voice in professional voice users. METHOD: The pilot study was conducted on 10 temple priests belonging to the Krishna Consciousness Movement...

OBJECTIVES: Vocal fold nodules (VFNs) are bilateral, mid-membranous, swellings of the vocal folds. Intralesional steroid injection was successfully tried in the management of benign vocal fold lesions including nodules. The aim of the present study was to compare treatment outcomes of vocal fold steroid injection (VFSI) and surgery in patients with VFNs in terms of lesion regression, subjective, and objective voice parameters. STUDY DESIGN: Nonrandomized controlled clinical trial...

INTRODUCTION: An intact auditory system is essential for the development and maintenance of voice quality and speech prosody. On the contrary hearing loss affects the adjustments and appropriate use of organs involved in speech and voice production. Spectro-acoustic voice parameters have been evaluated in Cochlear Implant (CI) users, and the authors of previous systematic reviews on the topic concluded that fundamental frequency (F0) seemed preliminarily the most reliable parameter to evaluate voice alterations in adult CI users...

OBJECTIVE: this study aims to verify the stages of evidence of validity of the voice-adapted present perceived control scale (V-APPCS) in its translated and cross-culturally adapted version for the Brazilian Portuguese "Voice-Adapted Present Perceived Control Scale" and to estimate the psychometric measurements of the properties of its items based on the item response theory (IRT). METHODS: the instrument underwent a process of translation and cross-cultural adaptation for the Brazilian Portuguese, the process was carried out by two qualified translators, native in the destination language, and fluent in the language and culture of origin...