Utvärdering av röstträning på logopedprogrammet i Göteborg

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine if there were any changes in quality in the voices of speech and language pathology students after four years of study at the University of Gothenburg. Recordings of twenty student voices from the first and eight semesters were evaluated perceptually by six speech-language pathologists. The parameters judged were: vocal fry, glottal attacks, strain, breathiness and resonant voice, using a scale from 0 to 10. Acoustical measures were made of F0 mean and median to detect possible differences between the two recordings. The results show a significant decrease in vocal fry, glottal attacks and strain as well as an increase in resonant voice and a significant decrease in F0 mean and median. These results indicate that the students’ voices develop during the four years of study, probably due to the voice training.