title: Phonetic considerations in the design of voice assessment material.
abstract: A read text is commonly used in voice clinics for auditory perceptual evaluation of dysphonic voices and acoustic analysis. This paper examines the phonetic make-up of texts in several European languages to investigate their comparability in the frameworks of international, multi-lingual clinical studies, and the need for outcome measures in evidence-based practice. The preliminary work described investigates the complex notion of phonetic balancing. It shows that, despite very different phoneme inventories, certain similarities of sound-type usage appear cross-linguistically. Although this high level analysis is of interest and of potential practical use, because of linguistic and speaker-dependent contextual variation, more fine-grained phonetic and acoustic analyses are needed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Laryngograph Ltd, UK.
authors.forename: Evelyn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Abberton
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010700:Phonetics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014831:Voice; D014832:Voice Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014833:Voice Quality