Research progress of the objective voice assessment / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

ABSTRACT

The voice is a complex multidimensional phenomenon. It is a drive through the lung airflow to vibrate the vocal cords, and then be perceived by the listeners. A multidimensional set of minimal basic measurements suitable for the voice diseases are proposed by the Committee on Phoniatrics of the European Laryngological Society in 2000. It includes five different aspects the subjective physician perception (grade, roughness, breathiness), and subjective rating by the patient, videostroboscopy (closure, regularity, mucosal wave and symmetry), acoustics analysis and aerodynamics measurements. The first three are the subjective assessment of voice, these are not to be discussed in tis article. Only objective assessments of the voice and the latest research progress are summarized below.