Effect of age and gender to voice quality.
- Author:
Ping WAN
1
;
Zhaoming HUANG
Author Information
1. College of Preschool and Special Education in East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China. wanping2007@hotmail.com
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Adult;
Age Factors;
Aged;
Aged, 80 and over;
Female;
Humans;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Sex Factors;
Speech Acoustics;
Voice Quality;
physiology;
Young Adult
- From:
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
2007;21(20):929-931
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the influence of age and gender on the parameters of voice, in order to make baseline data for the diagnosis and therapy of voice disorders.
METHOD:One hundred and thirty two normal subjects were randomly selected in Shanghai, which were divided into two groups: one aged 18-40 and another aged 60-90. Each group included 33 male subjects and 33 female subjects. All subjects were assessed by VA (Tiger DRS. Inc), selected parameters including: F0, Jitter, Shimmer, NNE, CQ.
RESULT:The factors of age and gender had the significant difference on voice, and there were interaction between age and gender. Sensitive parameters are F0, Jitter, NNE, CQ.
CONCLUSION:There are some characteristic change of voice associated with aging. There is vast difference between aging male and aging female. Furthermore, aging voice can be improved by voice training.
