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dc.contributor.authorLester-Smith, Rosemary A.
dc.contributor.authorJebaily, Charles G.
dc.contributor.authorStory, Brad H.
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-15T22:34:29Z
dc.date.available2021-11-15T22:34:29Z
dc.date.issued2021-10
dc.identifier.citationLester-Smith, R. A., Jebaily, C. G., & Story, B. H. (2021). The Effects of Remote Signal Transmission and Recording on Acoustical Measures of Simulated Essential Vocal Tremor: Considerations for Remote Treatment Research and Telepractice. Journal of Voice.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0892-1997
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jvoice.2021.09.012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/662314
dc.description.abstractPurpose: Studies on medical and behavioral interventions for essential vocal tremor (EVT) have shown inconsistent effects on acoustical and perceptual outcome measures across studies and across participants. Remote acoustical and perceptual assessments might facilitate studies with larger samples of participants and repeated measures that could clarify treatment effects and identify optimal treatment candidates. Furthermore, remote acoustical and perceptual assessment might allow clinicians to monitor clients’ treatment responses and optimize treatment approaches during telepractice. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of remote signal transmission and recording for acoustical and perceptual assessment of EVT. Method: Simulations of EVT were produced using a computational model and were recorded using local and remote procedures to represent client- and clinician-end recordings respectively. Acoustical analyses measured the extent and rate of fundamental frequency (fo) and intensity modulation to represent vocal tremor severity and the cepstral peak prominence (CPPS) to represent voice quality. The data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) with recording as the within-subjects factor and sex of the computational model as the between-subjects factor. Results: There was a significant main effect of recording on the rate of fo modulation and significant interactions of recording and sex for the extent of intensity modulation, rate of intensity modulation, and CPPS. Posthoc pairwise comparisons and analysis of effect size indicated that recording procedures had the largest effect on the extent of intensity modulation for male simulations, the rate of intensity modulation for male and female simulations, and the CPPS for male and female simulations. Despite having disabled all known software and computer audio enhancing options and having stable ethernet connections, there was inconsistent attenuation of signal amplitude in remote recordings that was most problematic for samples with a breathy voice quality but also affected samples with typical and pressed voice qualities. Conclusions: Acoustical measures that correlate to perception of vocal tremor and voice quality were altered by remote signal transmission and recording. In particular, signal transmission and recording in Zoom altered time-based estimates of intensity modulation and CPPS with male and female simulations of EVT and magnitude-based estimates of intensity modulation with male simulations of EVT. In contrast, signal transmission and recording in Zoom minimally altered time- and magnitude-based estimates of fo modulation with male and female simulations of EVT. Therefore, acoustical and perceptual assessments of EVT should be performed using audio recordings that are collected locally on the participant- or client-end, particularly when measuring modulation of intensity and CPP or estimating vocal tremor severity and voice quality. Development of procedures for collecting local audio recordings in remote settings may expand data collection for treatment research and enhance telepractice.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevier BVen_US
dc.rights© 2021 The Voice Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en_US
dc.subjectVocal tremor—Telepractice—Field-based recordingen_US
dc.titleThe Effects of Remote Signal Transmission and Recording on Acoustical Measures of Simulated Essential Vocal Tremor: Considerations for Remote Treatment Research and Telepracticeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizonaen_US
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Voiceen_US
dc.description.note12 month embargo; available online 24 October 2021en_US
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dc.eprint.versionFinal accepted manuscripten_US
dc.identifier.piiS0892199721003118
dc.source.journaltitleJournal of Voice


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