A First Comparative Study of Oesophageal and Voice Prosthesis Speech Production

The purpose of this work is to evaluate and to compare the acoustic properties of oesophageal voice and voice prosthesis speech production. A group of 14 Italian laryngectomized patients were considered: 7 with oesophageal voice and 7 with tracheoesophageal voice (with phonatory valve). For each pat...

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Main Authors: Massimiliana Carello, Mauro Magnano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2009-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/821304