Vocal monitoring for voice professionals

Voice disorders may cause absenteeism from work in order to recover, but many voice professionals underestimate this phenomenon. As teachers suffer from voice disorders in a higher proportion than the rest of voice professional categories, this research concentrates on long-term acquisitions in teaching environments, on their correlation with the acoustic conditions of workspaces and with medical examinations performed by the specialists of the Medical Surgery Department of the Università degli Studi di Torino. Laboratory measurements under very different acoustic conditions (anechoic and reverberant rooms) and short-term monitorings for diagnostic and rehabilitation purposes are also under investigation. Voice parameters are monitored using a new portable analyzer recently developed at Politecnico di Torino, the Voice Care, which detects the vocal folds vibration. Questionnaires are used to understand if self-reported noise- and voice-conditions are associated with the objective measurement.

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