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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2019.11.1.051

Development of smartphone-based voice therapy program  

Lee, Ha-Na (Department of Otolaryngology-Voice Clinic, Chosun University Hospital)
Park, Jun-Hee (Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chosun University School of Medicine)
Yoo, Jae-Yeon (Department of Speech Language Pathology, Honam University)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.11, no.1, 2019 , pp. 51-61 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop a smartphone based voice therapy program for patients with voice disorders. Contents of voice therapy were collected through analysis of mobile contents related to voice therapy in Korea, experts and users' demand survey, and the program was developed using Android Studio. Content needed for voice therapy was collected through analysis of mobile contents related to voice therapy. The user satisfaction evaluation for application was conducted for five patient with functional voice disorders. The results showed that the mobile contents related to voice therapy in Korea were mostly related to breathing, followed by voice and singing, but only 13 applications were practically practiced for voice therapy. Expert and user demand surveys showed that the patients and therapists both had a high need for content that could provide voice training in places other than the treatment room. Based on this analysis, 'Home Voice Trainer', an smartphone based voice therapy program, was developed. Home Voice Trainer is an application for voice therapy and management based on Android smartphones. It is designed to train voice therapy activities at home that have been trained offline. In addition, the records of voice training of patients were managed online so that patients can maintain voice improvement through continuous voice consulting even after the end of voice therapy. User evaluations show that patients are satisfied with the difficulty and content of voice therapy programs provided by home voice trainers, but lack of a portion of user interface, such as the portion of home button and interface between screens. Further study suggests the clinical application of home voice trainer to the patients with voice disorders. It is expected that the development study and the clinical application of smart contents related to voice therapy will be actively conducted.
Keywords
home voice trainer; smartphone voice therapy; vocal aerobic treatment; voice therapy; voice disorder;
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