title: Acoustic analysis of voice using WPCVox: a comparative study with Multi Dimensional Voice Program.
abstract: In this study, two different tools developed for the parametric extraction and acoustic analysis of voice samples are compared. The main goal of the paper is to contrast the results obtained using the classical Multi Dimensional Voice Program (MDVP), with the results obtained with the novel WPCVox. The aim of this comparison was to find differences and similarities in the parameters extracted with both systems in order to make comparison of measurements and data transfer among both equipments. The study was carried out in two stages: in the first, a wide sample of healthy voices belonging to Spanish-speaking adults from both genders were used to carry out a direct comparison between the results given by MDVP and those obtained with WPCVox. In the second stage, a sample of 200 speakers (53 normal and 173 pathological) taken from a commercially available database of voice disorders were used to demonstrate the usefulness of WPCVox for the acoustic analysis and the characterization of normal and pathological voices. The results conclude that WPCVox provides very reliable measurements which are very similar to those obtained using MDVP, and very similar capabilities to discriminate among normal and pathological voices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Circuits & Systems Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, EUIT Telecomunicación, Ctra. Valencia km. 7, Campus Politécnico, 28031 Madrid, Spain. igodino@ics.upm.es
authors.forename: Juan Ignacio
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Godino-Llorente
authors.forename: Víctor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Osma-Ruiz
authors.forename: Nicolás
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sáenz-Lechón
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cobeta-Marco
authors.forename: Ramón
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: González-Herranz
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ramírez-Calvo
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014832:Voice Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014833:Voice Quality / Q000502:physiology*