Study on the consistency of voice collection across different smartphone brands and its clinical usability
10.3969/j.issn.1006-7299.2025.03.003
- VernacularTitle:不同品牌智能手机语音采集的一致性及其临床可行性研究
- Author:
Jiaxing ZHENG
1
;
Kaiwen CHEN
;
Yuting TANG
;
Gang WANG
;
Yunting XU
;
Jianlin OU
;
Yixuan HUANG
;
Weixing LING
;
Zhuoming CHEN
Author Information
1. 暨南大学附属第一医院康复医学科(广州 510630)
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Smartphone;
Energy;
Voice parameters;
Vowels;
Professional recording equipment
- From:
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology
2025;33(3):216-221
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To compare the consistency of voice parameters collected by commonly used smart-phone brands in China and professional recording equipment,and to study whether smartphones can be used for voice research.Methods A total of 67 normal subjects were selected for voice recording using six different smart-phone brands(via the"Active Health"screening APP from the National Key Research and Development Program)and professional recording equipment.Acoustic voice parameters such as fundamental frequency parameters,fre-quency variation parameters,amplitude variation parameters,formant parameters,and energy parameters were ex-tracted from the vowels/a/,/i/,and/u/.A one-way ANOVA test and Tukey's HSD post-hoc comparisons were conducted on the independent variables.Results There were no significant differences between smartphones and professional recording equipment in terms of fundamental frequency parameters such as median F0,mean F0,max F0 and min F0;frequency parameters such as jitter local,jitter local absolute,jitter rap,jitter ppq5,and jitter ddp;amplitude parameters such as shimmer local,shimmer local dB,shimmer apq3,shimmer apq5,shimmer apq11,and shimmer dda;and formant parameters such as F1,F2,F3,and F4.However,significant differences were found in energy parameters such as mean energy(F=31.171,P<0.001),max energy(F=34.193,P<0.001),and min energy(F=5.453,P<0.001)between smartphones and professional recording equipment.Conclusion The smartphones using the"Active Health"screening app from the National Key Research and Development Program can replace professional recording equipment for voice research.However,caution should be exercised when selec-ting energy-related acoustic parameters.