Affiliation:
1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
2. MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA
3. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Abstract
Purpose
Previous ambulatory voice monitoring studies have included many singers and have combined speech and singing in the analyses. This study applied a singing classifier to the ambulatory recordings of singers with phonotrauma and healthy controls to determine if analyzing speech and singing separately would reveal voice use differences that could provide new insights into the etiology and pathophysiology of phonotrauma in this at-risk population.
Method
Forty-two female singers with phonotrauma (vocal fold nodules or polyps) and 42 healthy matched controls were monitored using an ambulatory voice monitor. Weeklong statistics (average, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis) for sound pressure level (SPL), fundamental frequency, cepstral peak prominence, the magnitude ratio of the first two harmonics (
H
1
–H
2
), and three vocal dose measures were computed from the neck surface acceleration signal and separated into singing and speech using a singing classifier.
Results
Mixed analysis of variance models found expected differences between singing and speech in each voice parameter, except SPL kurtosis. SPL skewness, SPL kurtosis, and all
H
1
–H
2
distributional parameters differentiated patients and controls when singing and speech were combined. Interaction effects were found in
H
1
–H
2
kurtosis and all vocal dose measures. Patients had significantly higher vocal doses in speech compared to controls.
Conclusions
Consistent with prior work, the pathophysiology of phonotrauma in singers is characterized by more abrupt/complete glottal closure (decreased mean and variation for
H
1
–H
2
) and increased laryngeal forces (negatively skewed SPL distribution) during phonation. Application of a singing classifier to weeklong data revealed that singers with phonotrauma spent more time speaking on a weekly basis, but not more time singing, compared to controls. Results are used as a basis for hypothesizing about the role of speaking voice in the etiology of phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction in singers.
Publisher
American Speech Language Hearing Association
Subject
Speech and Hearing,Linguistics and Language,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Otorhinolaryngology
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