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Cepstral peak prominence: a more reliable measure of dysphonia
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Cepstral peak prominence: a more reliable measure of dysphonia

Yolanda D Heman-Ackah, Reinhardt J Heuer, Deirdre D Michael, Rosemary Ostrowski, Michelle Horman, Margaret M Baroody, James Hillenbrand and Robert T Sataloff
Annals of otology, rhinology & laryngology, v 112(4), pp 324-333
Apr 2003
PMID: 12731627

Abstract

Aged Aged, 80 and over Child Female Humans Male Middle Aged Observer Variation Reference Values ROC Curve Sensitivity and Specificity Severity of Illness Index Speech Acoustics Time Factors Voice Disorders - diagnosis Voice Disorders - epidemiology Voice Quality
Quantification of perceptual voice characteristics allows the assessment of voice changes. Acoustic measures of jitter, shimmer, and noise-to-harmonic ratio (NHR) are often unreliable. Measures of cepstral peak prominence (CPP) may be more reliable predictors of dysphonia. Trained listeners analyzed voice samples from 281 patients. The NHR, amplitude perturbation quotient, smoothed pitch perturbation quotient, percent jitter, and CPP were obtained from sustained vowel phonation, and the CPP was obtained from running speech. For the first time, normal and abnormal values of CPP were defined, and they were compared with other acoustic measures used to predict dysphonia. The CPP for running speech is a good predictor and a more reliable measure of dysphonia than are acoustic measures of jitter, shimmer, and NHR.

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