Speaking and Nonspeaking Voice Professionals: Who Has the Better Voice?

Summary Introduction Voice professionals can be classified into two major subgroups: the primarily speaking and the primarily nonspeaking voice professionals. Nonspeaking voice professionals mainly include singers, whereas speaking voice professionals include the rest of the voice professionals. Alt...

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Published in:Journal of voice 2018-01, Vol.32 (1), p.45-50
Main Authors: Chitguppi, Chandala, Raj, Anoop, Meher, Ravi, Rathore, P.K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Case-Control Studies
Female
Fundamental frequency
Humans
Male
Otolaryngology
Professional voice user
Singers
Singing - physiology
Speech - physiology
Speech Acoustics
Stroboscopy
Videostroboscopy
Voice
Voice analysis
Voice Disorders - diagnostic imaging
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Summary:Summary Introduction Voice professionals can be classified into two major subgroups: the primarily speaking and the primarily nonspeaking voice professionals. Nonspeaking voice professionals mainly include singers, whereas speaking voice professionals include the rest of the voice professionals. Although both of these groups have high vocal demands, it is currently unknown whether both groups show similar voice changes after their daily voice use. Comparison of these two subgroups of voice professionals has never been done before. Aim This study aimed to compare the speaking voice of speaking and nonspeaking voice professionals with no obvious vocal fold pathology or voice-related complaints on the day of assessment. Methodology After obtaining relevant voice-related history, voice analysis and videostroboscopy were performed in 50 speaking and 50 nonspeaking voice professionals. Results Speaking voice professionals showed significantly higher incidence of voice-related complaints as compared with nonspeaking voice professionals. Voice analysis revealed that most acoustic parameters including fundamental frequency, jitter percent, and harmonic-to-noise ratio were significantly higher in speaking voice professionals, whereas videostroboscopy did not show any significant difference between the two groups. Conclusion This is the first study of its kind to analyze the effect of daily voice use in the two subgroups of voice professionals with no obvious vocal fold pathology. We conclude that voice professionals should not be considered as a homogeneous group. The detrimental effects of excessive voice use were observed to occur more significantly in speaking voice professionals than in nonspeaking voice professionals.
ISSN:0892-1997
1873-4588
DOI:10.1016/j.jvoice.2017.03.003