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| | Damaging Vocal Techniques |
 | | During her vocal research, she decided to have a 'vocal abuse' session using the fiberoptic camera. | | | The healthy pivoting process of the vocal folds was impossible and I had no sensation of a high soft palate. | | | This constant pressure on the larynx and vocal cords created by this technique is completely unhealthy for the voice. |
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| | Singers, Let's Prevent Vocal Problems! |
| | All people in the voice professions would agree that prevention of vocal disorders through proper training and techniques is desirable, and many would agree that therapy is the most important treatment for vocal problems. | | | In 1894, Garcia, for example, offered corrections for vocal faults such as guttural or nasal sounds, tremolo, and slurring the attack of a sound; however, he stated that some of the faults are distressing and extremely difficult to correct. | | | Good vocal health, of general interest to everyone, is a vital concern to the professional voice user, singers in particular. |
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| | Needless to say, identification and elimination of the source of stress expressed in muscle tension is of primary importance. | | | Treatment of occupational stress includes stress management programs, psychotherapy, hypnosis, relaxation techniques and biofeedback among others. | | | During the last several years health professionals in a number of areas (neurology, orthopedics, dentistry, otolaryngology etc.) have begun to research and address issues of "arts medicine". |
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| | The National Institute For Truth Verification, Voice Stress Analysis and Lie Detection Experts. Manufacturer of the ... |
| | Heisse analyzed 91 known-conclusion criminal responses utilizing voice stress analysis and determined that “Audio stress analysis seems to be valid in detecting changes in various psycho physiological parameters so that a trained examiner utilizing standard techniques can evaluate these changes and thus utilize the instrument in truth and deception” (Available from Library of Congress). | | | Professor Chapman’s study confirmed that voice stress analysis was accurate when utilized as a truth verification device and produced a confession rate of 94.8% of the responses where deception was indicated (Available from NITV). | | | Chapman selected 211 criminal responses at random from 2,109 known-conclusion responses where voice stress analysis was used to test suspects. |
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| | Free Lessons from Your Online Choice for a Better Voice |
| | Deep breathing stretches and relaxes the chest cavity, back muscles, and diaphragm, all of which are used for vocal control. | | | After the front of the neck is completely massaged, move on to the muscles under the chin. | | | This exercise massages the vocal cords and relieves any tightness. |
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| | The Voice oriented examination - History taking |
| | Then a series of vocal behaviors are elicited from the patient and recorded. | | | Asking the patient to phonate throughout their range then would be like exercising. | | | Two sung phrases are utilized in our clinic. |
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| | The Narragansett Times - News - 01/18/2002 - Vocal stress can betray you in a lie |
| | The Stress Analyzer is not restricted to yes or no answers and is able to accurately analyze recordings of unstructured conversations. | | | The Stress Analyzer requires no wires be attached to a subject being questioned. | | | If I asked a subject if they sexually assaulted someone, they might not understand what that means so I would have to ask about specific details." |
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| | Stress Management for Singers |
| | Finally, a practical three-pronged (behavioral, cognitive and social) approach to stress management for singers will be shared. | | | In today's fast-paced world stress is a fact of life, regardless of one's profession. | | | Long, G. "The measurement of stress by voice analysis." Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 5 (1990): 723-731. |
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| | Training for Business and Industry |
| | Appropriate vocal techniques can make the difference in closing a sale, an effective presentation, or differences in communicating effectively with individuals or groups. | | | Additional training that provides 'physical therapy for the voice' can be provided to help improve the flexibility and range of the vocal muscles, to allow effortless voice production for extended periods on the job or doing other routine activities. | | | Training involves individual or small groups in vocal tone, effective breath support, tonal focus and diction, projection, rate, volume and appropriate pitch and phrasal use. |
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| | Vocal Tip of the Month |
| | In fact, ones voice can show you how stressed out your body, mind, emotions, and spirit are. | | | And when you voice warns you, through a vocal warning sign, that you need a break, take a few minutes to do something you really enjoy, either by yourself or with someone you really love. | | | You want to give the body all the water it needs, so it never has to borrow internal water from the places inside your body that need it the most. |
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| | Emotional |
| | Vocal measurement of emotion, Scherer K. (1989) Emotion: Theory, research and experience V. Vocal cues to speaker affect: testing two models, Scherer K. R., Ladd D. | | | Characteristics and recognizability of vocal expressions of emotion, Bezooijen R. van (1984). | | | Relative importance of face, body, and speech in judgements of personality and affect, Ekman P., Friesen W. V., O'Sullivan M., Scherer K. Journal of personality and social psychology, 38, 270-277 |
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| | Voice Stress Analysis |
| | When a person talks, air is pushed from the lungs upwards, through the vocal cords that in time vibrate in a certain frequency. | | | This allows you to conduct interrogations where analysis is required in real-time and allows you to focus better on suspected portions and ask additional questions, if necessary. | | | A polygraph, for example, uses a system of multiple sensors, recording the heart pulse rate, blood pressure, sweat, Galvanic Skin Response (G.S.R.) and so on. |
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| | The Computerized Voice Stress Analyzer |
| | However, a few studies were found that suggest that the PSE may in fact measure stress in the human voice in some settings. | | | A review of the relevant literature shows that when the PSE was used to detect deception, a large percentage of the studies concluded that the PSE’s results were no better than chance. | | | Dektor’s primary product was a device called the Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE), the first commercially available voice stress analyzer. |
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| | Maintaining Vocal Health |
| | Accurate self-evaluation will lead one to therapeutic practices which will return you to vocal health in the shortest period of time. | | | Carefully pace the use of register extremes (such as pushing the chest voice into the upper range for effect, i.e, belting). | | | As in any physical activity, the warm-up should proceed from general stretching through less strenuous to more strenuous usage. |
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| | Free Vocal Tips - Free Vocal Tips - Free Vocal Tips |
| | The airflow is what creates and carries your vocal tone, so keep it flowing. | | | Vocal Coach Directory - Find A Vocal Coach | | | Take care of your body/instrument by stretching out the vocal muscles and relieving the body of unnecessary tension before singing. |
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| | Arizona Respiratory Center: Vocal Cord Dysfunction |
| | Diagnosing VCD can be quite difficult because the symptoms are a lot like those of asthma: chronic cough, shortness of breath, difficulty inhaling enough air, chest tightness, throat tightness, hoarseness, and wheezing. | | | If you also have asthma, your doctor may want to reevaluate your asthma medications. | | | If you're like most people, you probably said asthma. |
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| | Princess Royal Trust VOCAL Carers Centre: Coping With Stress |
| | However, carers may experience unusually high levels of stress as a consequence of pressures associated with their caring situation - changes in circumstances, financial worries or relationship strains. | | | Why not try the relaxation techniques below - they are designed to be simple and can be done almost anywhere. | | | Is there any way in which you can avoid or change these situations? |
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| | Bluegrass: We ARE Bluegrass Music |
| | This article covers some basic ways that we stress our voices as well as fundamental tips on protecting and keeping it healthy. | | | Many problems we experience as singers, such as hoarseness or discomfort in the throat, have to do with the way we use, or "misuse", our voices long before we ever sing that first note. | | | Drugs - Antihistamines and decongestants found in cold medication and allergy medication dry out the vocal cords. |
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| | SouthernGospelNews.com - your online source for all southern gospel music news |
| | The muscles in the body must be relaxed to sing properly and they usually become tight and rigid also when under stress. | | | It's easier to learn the right from the beginning than it is to brake yourself of bad habits. | | | For singing higher you can use your falsetto and for lower you can use the chest register. |
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http://sogospelnews.com/index/features/comments/2300
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| | Stress |
| | Vocal stress In linguistics, vocal stress is the accent or emphasis given to each syllable in a piece of writing, as determined by conventional pronunciation. | | | Dumbbell routines and exercises to help you build muscle, tone, and get in better physical shape. | | | One in four foster children suffer from post-traumatic stress, study finds |
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| | Truster Computerized Lie Detector Truth Verifier |
| | Truster produces a computerized analysis of the speech flow to distinguish between nonverbal emotional, cognitive and stressful elements within the human voice. | | | Truster examines the emotional, cognitive and physiological patterns in our voice to deliver accurate messages regarding vocal segments of a conversation or broadcast. | | | The physiological element - indicates the stress, physiological alertness and |
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| | Voice Stress Evaluators and Lie Detection. Hollien H, Geison L, Hicks JW, Jr . 1987;32(2): 405-418. |
| | The first was focused on the basic acoustic/temporal correlates of stress in voice (the subject of an earlier report), the second on examination of stress by commercial voice analyzers, and the third on the detection of relatively high-risk lies by this same type of voice analysis procedure. | | | However, most researh that seeks to identify the relationships between microtremors and laryngeal function has produced negative results, and data on the ability of voice analyzers to detect stress from speech—or to identify spoken deception—have been negative or “mixed” in nature. | | | Presumably, they do so by examining traces made by laryngeal microtremors which, they claim (1) exist in the voice, (2) are associated with stress, and (3) ultimately are associated with lying. |
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| | Voice Stress results |
| | Their vibration increases from the relaxed 8 to 9 Hz, to the stressful 11 to 12 Hz range." | | | "All muscles in the body, including the vocal chords, vibrate in the 8 to 12 Hz range. | | | This is known to be caused by the production and release of a chemical, as explained in the Scientific American Article "Psychological Tremor" Vol. |
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| | voice hygiene |
| | Some ENT physicians recommend that vocal athletes avoid the use of aspirin (unless prescribed for medical circumstances). | | | Do not stain the muscles of the face, throat, neck, and shoulders when talking or singing. | | | Much body moisture may be lost when breathing air with low humidity levels, as in air-conditioned or heated rooms/cars. |
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| | Anthony Winter Vocal Productions - Stress-busting |
| | While thorough preparation and performance visualization is the best way to reduce anxiety during performance, often it's just a case of getting up in front of an audience again and again until you work out your own strategy for dealing with nerves. | | | If all else fails, try using your sense of humour to relieve the tension. | | | Imperial College Health Centre - Study Skills and Stress Management This site explains techniques for dealing with anxiety and panic. |
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http://www.anthonywinter.com.au/singers/advancedtopics3/stressbusting
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| | American Polygraph Association |
| | Horvath, F. An experimental comparison of the psychological stress evaluator and the galvanic skin response in detection of deception. | | | Horvath, F. Effect of different motivational instructions on detection of deception with the psychological stress evaluator and the galvanic skin response. | | | Below is a list of the university-grade research studies that have investigated voice stress as a deception detection approach. |
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| | Jiang, Jack |
| | Hanson DG, Jiang J, Chi WC: Quantitative color analysis of laryngeal erythema in chronic posterior laryngitis. | | | National Multi-Purpose Research and Training Center Grant Award: Perturbation of Phonation: A Study of Vocal Tremor, NIDCD, 1995-2000 | | | Regular Research Grant Award: Measures of Vocal Dysfunction in Neurological Disorders, as first co-investigator, NIDCD, 1995-2000 |
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| | Speech Investigations |
| | Words and phrases located in this manner provide a profile of someone's TRUE thoughts, knowledge, intent and emotions, irrespective of what that person may be trying to convey in the normal forward portion of their speech. | | | Voice Stress Analysis is the process of determining someone's stress level and type in relation to their statements. | | | This stress can be detected in the voice due to the physiological affect it has on the vocal cords. |
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| | Education |
| | However, for the singer with dysphonia who does not know much about the vocal fold functioning, education is the first step in the recovery program. | | | vocal hygiene (2) understanding medical problems affecting the voice (3) smoking cessation (4) alcohol, drugs, nutrition and hydration (5) vocal stress (6) vocal exercise (7) singing sick (Murry and Rosen, 2000, Appendix A, B and C). | | | The best way to avoid voice problems in professional singers is to educate performers about potential vocal problems before they occur (Mishra et al., 2000). |
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| | The National Center for Voice and Speech - Tutorials |
| | However, deeper vocal fold tissues - collagen, elastin and muscle - exhibit some resistance to stretching, but can become quite stiff. | | | A quantitative analysis of the cover model reveals that a positive change in TA muscle activity always causes a decrease in Fo. | | | However, the ability to quantify the relationship between amount of muscle in vibration with stress and vocal fold length to predict Fo is essential to scientists modeling various types of phonation. |
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| | S t r e s s E r a s e r . c o m - Calm Your Mind, Relax Your Body... Anytime, Anywhere |
| | With the StressEraser you can calm your mind and relax your body anytime, anywhere—even during intensely stressful life events. | | | Controlling stress, it turns out, is about activating something called the vagus nerve, a part of the nervous system that influences heart rate. | | | You could sign up for yoga classes, or better yet, lay your hands on a nifty new device called the StressEraser..." |
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| | Department of Otolaryngology - Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| | In many cases, the Grabscheid Voice Center helps to rectify problems through behavioral and vocal therapies. | | | Although the Eugen Grabscheid, M.D., Voice Center is known for treating performers, many patients come from the business world to relieve vocal strain as a result of overuse. | | | Stock market traders, attorneys, and politicians, as well as most other professionals require the use (and often abuse) of their voice to perform their jobs. |
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| | Instructional materials for home practice and personal use. | | | The literature stresses tongue therapy is often most effective when combined with orthodontic treatment. | | | It is thought that persons who stutter have problems in timing the movement of the vocal cords with breathing and other speech movements. |
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| | Vocal Tips |
| | You must be aware of what your body is telling you. | | | 5) If you experience vocal fatigue, chronic hoarseness or throat pain do not sing and avoid talking. | | | Lack of sleep and stress causes vocal fatigue and strain. |
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| | Voice Stress Analysis from The Diogenes Company |
| | Contact us for more information on all your Voice Stress Analysis needs. | | | Achieving the first significant advance in VSA since development of the Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE). | | | The graphical waveforms produced and displayed by the instrument can be interpreted by trained voice stress analysts to reveal the relative level of voice stress present in the subject. |
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| | Truster Lie Detecting Software |
| | Trustech and / or any of its representatives cannot be held responsible for any outcomes resulting from the use of the Truster™ system. | | | Truster 2.4 provides a real-time analysis of vocal segments from phone or face-to-face conversations right on your computer screen. | | | Now you can know what's really going on behind the words: |
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| | Definition of Prosody |
| | Prosody consists of distinctive variations of stress, tone, and timing in spoken language. | | | The list of authors can be found here. | | | How pitch changes from word to word, the speed of speech, the loudness of speech, and the duration of pauses all contribute to prosody. |
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| | Stress (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In linguistics, stress is the emphasis given to some syllables (often no more than one in each word, but in many languages, long words have a secondary stress a few syllables away from the primary stress, as in the words cóunterfòil or còunterintélligence). | | | However, linguists such as Peter Ladefoged believe these levels are not phonemic, and report that not all alleged secondary stress is characterized by the increase in respiratory activity associated with stress. | | | Rather, a syllable in English may be stressed or unstressed, and if unstressed, the vowel may be full or reduced. |
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| | Vocal loading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, there are some typical symptoms that can be objectively measured. | | | Objective evaluation or measurement of vocal loading is very difficult due to the tight coupling of the experienced psychological and physiological stress. | | | Still, research in vocal loading has often been treated as a minor subject. |
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| | Sound Health, Inc |
| | As the frequencies of the body become chaotic, manifesting symptoms, pain or emotional stress, the vocal print begins to display the same disorganization. | | | Repeated trials have shown that vocal coherence can be an indicator of states of health and mood. | | | Frequencies that are lacking, over abundant or dissident can be used to construct frequency sets that may help the body reverse its own disease. |
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| | VOICE DISORDERS |
| | Definition: cancer is a disease that may affect the structures of the oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx. | | | Degenerative neurologic disease, musculo-skeletal tension, vocal abuse and misuse, growths of folds, gastro-esophageal reflux, and chronic allergies may characterize slow onset. | | | A voice is termed "disordered" when the vocal quality of an individual is altered/changed in such a way that it is thought to be abnormal to the listener. |
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| | In a factorially designed experiment, the factors of mode of stress (cognitive vs emotional) and degree of stress (low ... |
| | Although mean FF did not covary with stress manipulation, FF floor of high-anxious and anxiety-denying Ss increased with stress, probably due to physiologically based changes in muscle tension. | | | In a factorially designed experiment, the factors of mode of stress (cognitive vs emotional) and degree of stress (low vs high) were studied in their effect on phonatory and articulatory processes during speech production. | | | For anxiety-denying female Ss, precision of articulation increased under cognitive stress and decreased under emotional stress. |
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| | The singer needs to become aware of his or her stresses. | | | Performance anxiety, fear of voice loss, lack of preparation and physical conditioning, complaints of vocal fatigue, reduced vocal endurance in the absence of vocal fold injury and over use of voice all indicate some function of stress. |
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| | Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women |
| | The detector uses a Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) and a Voice Stress Analyzer (VSA) to instantly display a "truthfulness" result. | | | While voice stress analysis is undoubtedly picking up signs of stress, there's really no way to determine if the stress is caused because of lying, or perhaps because the topic of conversation is unpleasant. | | | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License |
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| | The National Center for Voice and Speech - Tutorials |
| | Vocal fold length is the primary variable for adjustment of fundamental frequency. | | | The amplitude to length ratio of the vocal folds is.001; as a result changes in lung pressure have little effect on fundamental frequency. | | | In general, there is an increase in fundamental frequency with an increase in lung pressure, and this increase is greater for high notes than for low notes. |
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| | The Ultimate Mora (linguistics) - American History Information Guide and Reference |
| | In some languages (for example, Japanese), the coda represents one mora, and in others (for example, Irish) it does not. | | | In English, it is clear that the codas of stressed syllables represent a mora (thus, the word cat is bimoraic), but it is not clear whether the codas of unstressed syllables do (the second syllable of the word rabbit might be monomoraic). | | | Mora (plural moras or morae) is a unit of sound used in phonology that determines syllable weight (which in turn determines stress) in some languages. |
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