Ping Wan1, Zhaoming Huang. 1. College of Preschool and Special Education in East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China. wanping2007@hotmail.com
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.
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.