title: [Perceptual and automatic voice and speech analysis of chronic laryngitis and T1 vocal cord cancer].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Patients with chronic laryngitis and T1 vocal cord cancer were compared using perceptual and text-based objective voice and speech analyses in order to determine which group is more affected in its ability to communicate and whether a distinction between the two pathologies is possible.
  
  
  METHODS
  In all, 13 patients with histologically proven chronic laryngitis and 13 patients with T1 vocal cord cancer were compared perceptually by five speech therapists on the basis of seven criteria and objectively by a speech recognition system and prosodic analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both, the data of the five speech therapists and the results of the automatic analysis revealed no significant differences between the two patient groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A distinction between chronic laryngitis and T1 vocal cord carcinoma by mere voice and speech analysis is not possible, because the patient groups do not show significant differences in their voice quality.
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Mustererkennung (Informatik 5), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bartke
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haderlein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Döllinger
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nöth
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Graf
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Eysholdt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ziethe
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D007827:Laryngitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013018:Sound Spectrography / Q000379:methods*; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014827:Vocal Cords; D014832:Voice Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D014833:Voice Quality