Instrumental and perceptual evidence for tracheoesophageal speech.
With 8 men, two methods of alaryngeal speech production, tracheoe-sophageal and electrolaryngeal, were compared on perceptual and acoustic measures of speech intelligibility. Measures consistently identified the tracheoesophageal speech as superior to electrolaryngeal speech.
Department of Communication Disorders, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau 63701, USA. c269ssd@semovm.semo.edu
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D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007831:Larynx, Artificial; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013072:Speech, Esophageal