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Current Voice Assessment :

devices and techniques

Alain Ghio
Laboratoire Parole et Langage
CNRS & Université de Provence
France

PEVOC 2011
Marseille
Voice assessment ?

Instrumental assessment

Imaging

Perceptual assessment
Questionnaire
PEVOC 2011

Postural assessment
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Instrumental voice assessment

 Old antagonism between perceptual vs. instrumental voice


assessment
Kent et al., 2000, “Voice quality measurement”, Singular

p1. “Some would argue that voice quality can be described and assessed only by auditory-perceptual
means… “

p1. “Still others might claim that auditory-perceptual methods are prone to various source of error…“

p117. “It is generally accepted in current research that the impressionistic nature of perceptual
description should be augmented by more objective nature of instrumental analysis where
possible.”
PEVOC 2011

p117. “It is important however not to assume that instrumental approaches are somehow correct and
infallible. Limits on accuracy exist with all techniques and the interpretation of results is not
always straightforward”

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An old story

 1875 : Société de Linguistique de Paris consults Etienne-Jules Marey


(French physiologist who studied movements of animals and
humans) in order to…
« d’appliquer la méthode graphique à l’étude des mouvements si complexes et si variés qui se
produisent dans la parole […] pour obtenir une trace objective des mouvements des organes
articulateurs, cage thoracique, larynx, langue, lèvres, voile du palais, au cours de l’articulation des
différentes unités phonétiques »
Because « L’oreille, la vue et la palpation ne sont pas suffisants pour appréhender les
mouvements successifs et simultanés nécessaires à la réalisation d’un phonème »

 Devices developed by Abbé Rousselot


PEVOC 2011

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Perception and instruments

 spaghetti produced by a French speaker in


spontaneous speech

 F1 = 400 Hz

 Instrument is inaccurate ?
PEVOC 2011

 No !!

Meunier C., Floccia, C. (1999) "Syllabe ou mot : quelle unité


 spaghetti spaghetti permet d'identifier les catégories phonétiques?", Actes des
2èmes Journées d'Etudes Linguistiques, "Syllabes", Nantes, pp.
87-92.

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When instrument is better than perception
PEVOC 2011

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When instrument increase knowledge on
physiology
PEVOC 2011

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But a photographer is needed….

Kent et al., 2000, “Voice quality measurement”, Singular

p1. “Perceptual and instrumental approaches are complementary and


PEVOC 2011

the central task is to bring them into a unified picture.“

 Instruments are not hearing machine

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Where ?

Instrumental Perceptual Questionnaire


PEVOC 2011

assessment assessment

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World Health Organisation

International classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps, a manual


of classification relating to the consequences of disease

Impairment Disability Handicap


• loss or abnormality of • any restriction or lack • disadvantage for a
body structure or of a of ability to perform given individual that
physiological or an activity in the limits or prevents the
psychological function manner or within the fulfilment of a role
range considered that is normal
normal for a human (depending on age,
being sex, and social and
cultural factors) for
that individual.

Instrumental Perceptual Questionnaire


PEVOC 2011

assessment assessment

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Program

 Automatic assessment of pathological voice signals based on noise, cepstral and nonlinear
features-
 JIGodino-Llorente, JD Arias-Londoño, N Sáenz-Lechón, V Osma-Ruiz, G Castellanos-
Domínguez, JMa Gutiérrez-Arriola

 On the use of grey zones in automatic voice pathology detection


 T Dubuisson, T Drugman, T Dutoit

 Voice use measured during work and leisure using the new portable voice accumulator Voxlog: A
methodological study
 M Thorsdotter, S Ternström, M Södersten

 Vocal Posturometer: A New Device For Controlling Posture For Voice Disorders
 I Denizoglu, M Pehlivan

Laryngoaltimeter: A New Ambulatory Device For Laryngeal Height Control


PEVOC 2011


 I Denizoglu, M Pehlivan

 High Speed Studio - a low cost high speed camera system


 H Larsson, S Hertegard

 Normative spectral slope in the VRP


11  P Pabon

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