Is the perception of dysphonia severity language-dependent? A comparison of French and Italian voice assessments.

摘要: In this cross-language study, six Italian and French voice experts evaluated perceptually the speech of 27 40 patients with dysphonia to determine if there were differences based on native language. specialists agreed substantially in their evaluations overall grade moderately concerning roughness breathiness. No statistically significant effects found related language speakers exception breathiness, a finding that was interpreted as being due different pathologies patient groups. It concluded perception breathiness is not language-dependent, whereas difference may be perception/adaption process.