Acoustic vocal measures in women without voice complaints and with normal larynxes

Abstract

It is important to establish normal voice standards in order to help guide voice professionals. Aim: to describe acoustic voice measures of adult young women with normal larynxes and without voice complaints. Method: 56 women underwent ENT evaluation and speech screening. The "A" vowel utterance was digitally recorded and analyzed by means of the Praat (Version 4.6.10) software. The data was analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and by the Shapiro-Wilk test with a 5% significance level. The study was cro…