title: Oral pressures, vowel durations, and acceptability ratings of esophageal speakers.
abstract: Aerodynamic, acoustic and perceptual measurements were made on a group of esophageal speakers and the results compared to a group of laryngeal speakers. The results indicate that (1) esophageal speakers show significantly higher oral pressure and larger vowel durations for a given phonetic sample when compared to laryngeal speakers and, (2) esophageal speakers who demonstrate oral pressures and vowel durations most like laryngeal speakers are judged to be most acceptable speakers.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010699:Phonation; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013071:Speech, Alaryngeal; D013072:Speech, Esophageal; D014831:Voice