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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2019.11.3.077

Development and validation of Speech Range Profile task  

Kim, Jaeock (Major in Speech Pathology Education, Graduate School of Education, Kangnam University)
Lee, Seung Jin (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, The Institute of Logopedics & Phoniatrics, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Gangnam Severance Hospital)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.11, no.3, 2019 , pp. 77-87 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study aimed to develop Speech Range Profile (SRP) and to examine and validate its clinical application. Forty-five participants without voice disorders aged 18-29 years were compared using SRP and Voice Range Profile (VRP). The authors developed the "Fire!" paragraph as a SRP task compromising 14 sentences including all Korean spoken phonemes and sentence types. To compare SRP and VRP results, the participants read the paragraph (reading) and counted from 21 to 30 (counting) as a part of SRP tasks, and produced a vowel /a/ from low to high frequencies (gliding) and a shortened form of the VRP as a part of VRP tasks. $F0_{max}$, $F0_{min}$, $F0_{range}$, $I_{max}$, $I_{min}$, and $I_{range}$ for each task were measured and compared, showing that $F0_{max}$, $F0_{min}$, $F0_{range}$, $I_{max}$, and $I_{range}$ were not different between reading and gliding. $I_{min}$, had the lowest value in counting. It is concluded that the newly developed SRP task, reading the "Fire" paragraph, can yield a maximum phonation range similar to that found by VRP. Therefore, it is expected that voice evaluation can be effectively performed in a relatively short time by applying SRP with the "Fire" paragraph, a functional utterance task, in place of VRP, which may be difficult to measure long term or in cases of severe voice disorders.
Keywords
Speech Range Profile (SRP); Voice Range Profile (VRP); normal voice;
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