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.
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Department of Communication Disorders, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau 63701, USA. c269ssd@semovm.semo.edu
Dancer
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Krueger
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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