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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this descriptive review was to document the current state of training to perform auditory-perceptual analysis as reported in the voice literature. METHODS: A review of the literature was performed. RESULTS: Thirty-six articles were included in the review. The theoretical basis of training, specific training methods employed, duration of training, stimuli used to train, vocal qualities trained, and the type of listeners used are reported. CONCLUSION: There is wide variation to training procedures used in research including auditory-perceptual evaluation of voice quality. In order to begin to discover how to best train listeners for research and clinical settings, attention to the training methods used in research is necessary. Further, these training methods must be explicitly acknowledged and described to allow for adequate evaluation of research findings, comparison across studies, and to determine for which populations results might be applicable. The conceptual framework outlined in this study is a starting point to review voice quality research and to design future studies for which auditory-perceptual evaluation is taught to listeners.
