Auditory perceptual and acoustic analysis related to tongue trills performance time in dysphonic women with vocal nodules / Análise perceptivo-auditiva e acústica da voz relacionada ao tempo de execução do exercício de vibração sonorizada de língua em mulheres com nódulos vocais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

The aim of this study was to assess whether tongue trills trill performance time interferes in the auditory perception and acoustic in women with vocal nodules. Furthermore, it was intended to identify at which moment during the 7-minute performance time the positive and negative responses predominate. This study comprised twenty-seven dysphonic women, who have vocal nodules, ranging from 18 to 45 years old. All subjects of this study were included in the experiment group which underwent tongue trills; only ten of these were also in the control group which underwent the placebo exercise. Both groups carried out the 7- minute performance time. The voices were recorded pre and post experimental and placebo exercises at the first, third, fifth and seventh minute of performance and auditory perception and acoustic were analyzed. In the auditory perception analysis the voices were analyzed individually according to the CAPEV protocol and in pairs, by comparison, to identify the better voice of the pair. The Voxmetria® program, version 2.7h by CTS Informática, was used to assess the vocal quality function. Fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, GNE, irregularity and noise were considered. According to the CAPEV results, the tongue trills caused statistically significant changes in seven out of the nine parameters analyzed. The use of the ANOVA analysis of variance showed that at moment 5 (after the fifth minute of experiment exercise) the voice presented the best overall rating, the least roughness, the least breathiness and high pitch. However, at moment 7 (after the seventh minute) the tension was significantly higher than at any other moment. In the paired comparison analysis, there was predominance of improved vocal in the post tongue trills at all moments, except the 7th. There was no statistically significant difference between moments 1 and 3. The voices at moment 5 were considered better that those at moment 3 and at moment 7 in the experiment group. In acoustic analysis of the experiment group there was gradual increase in the fundamental frequency and in the GNE after the 3rd minute and a decrease in noise as of the 1st minute. In the auditory perception analysis as well as in the acoustic analysis, the ratings for the experiment group were higher than those of the control group in relation to vocal improvement. The results of this study show the tongue trill performance time interferes in the vocal response of dysphonic women with positive response predominance at moment 5 compared to moments 1, 3 and 7. At moment 7 there is an increase of vocal tension and a drop in performance during tongue trills.

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treinamento da voz voice acoustic of speech terapia de voz voz voice quality voice therapy voice training acústica da voz qualidade da voz

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