Instrumentation

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Instrumentation

• The altar of technology
• (Chial, 1990)

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Options for Quantitative Evaluation(s)

• Acoustic analysis
• Respiratory Analysis
• Resonance Analysis

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Respiratory Analysis

• Aerophone (Kay Elemetrics)
• Pulmonary Function Analyzer (Kelleher Medical)
• Computer supported-digital
• Analog devices

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Acoustic Analysis

• Kay Elemetrics
• Computerized Speech Laboratory (CSL)
• Visi-Pitch II
• Laryngograph
• Tiger Instruments
• Dr. Speech (Minifie)
• C-Speech (Malinovic)

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Resonance

• Nasometer
• Spectroscopy

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Respiration

• Vital capacity for speech needs
• variety of pressure, force and ratio
• calibration
• cleaning/disinfecting

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Acoustics

• Frequency, Intensity and Waveform
• Fundamental Frequency F0
• modal
• Perturbation measures
• jitter relative average perturbation (Koike)
• hoarseness
• shimmer

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Resonance

• Nasalance oral-nasal acoustic ratio
• Kay Elemetrics, Pine Brook, New Jersey
• Nasogram
• Quantification of nasality