Performance of Acoustic Measures for the Discrimination Among Healthy, Rough, Breathy, and Strained Voices Using the Feedforward Neural Network.

Journal: Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To identify and evaluate the best set of acoustic measures to discriminate among healthy, rough, breathy, and strained voices.

Authors

  • Samuel Ribeiro de Abreu
    Graduate Program in Decision Models and Health, Statistics Departament, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
  • Estevão Silvestre da Silva Sousa
    Graduate Program in Decision Models and Health, Statistics Departament, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
  • Ronei Marcos de Moraes
    Statistics Departament, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
  • Leonardo Wanderley Lopes
    Department of Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Electronic address: lwlopes@hotmail.com.