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In vivo measurements of air pressure, vocal folds vibration and acoustic characteristics of phonation into a straw and a resonance tube used in vocal exercising.
Radolf, Vojtěch ; Laukkanen, A. M. ; Horáček, Jaromír ; Veselý, Jan ; Liu, D.
The study investigates the differences between three most widely used methods in voice training and therapy: Phonation into a glass resonance tube (1) the outer end in the air, (2) the outer end submerged 2-10 cm below water surface in a bowl (‘water resistance therapy’ with bubbling effect), and (3) phonation into a very thin straw. One female speech trainer served as subject. Acoustic samples, electroglottographic signals and both mean and dynamic airpressures in the mouth cavity were registered for repetitions of [pu:pu], and for phonation into the tubes, while the outer end was randomly shuttered, in order to get an estimate of subglottic pressure. Both phonation threshold and ordinary, most comfortable phonation were recorded.
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Experimental investigation of air pressure, acoustic characteristics and vibrations of vocal folds on a complex physical model of phonation in humans.
Horáček, Jaromír ; Radolf, Vojtěch ; Bula, Vítězslav ; Veselý, Jan ; Laukkanen, A. M.
The contribution aims to provide material that can be used in development of more realistic physical as well as theoretical models of voice production. The experimental set-up, methodology and the results of measurement of airflow rate, subglottal, oral and generated acoustic air pressures are presented together with the simultaneously measured flow-induced vibrations of a vocal folds replica, made of soft silicon rubber, and recorded by a high speed camera. The data were measured during a ‘soft’ phonation just above the phonation onset, given by the phonation threshold airflow rate, and during a ‘normal’ phonation for the airflow rate of about three times higher. A model of the human vocal tract in the position for production of vowel [u:] was used and the flow resistance was raised by phonating into a glass resonance tube either in the air or having the other end of the tube submerged under water, and by phonating into a narrow straw. The results for the pressures presented in time and frequency domain are comparable with the physiological ranges and limits measured in humans for ordinary phonation and for production of vocal exercises used in voice therapy.
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