Though normal vocal cords show regular vibration, pathologic vocal cords show irregularity between peaks. Jitter means fluctuation in the time interval between peaks, and Shimmer means cycle to cycle variation in the amplitude of the peaks. We
investigated the vocal vibration of Korean normal persons objectively.
The fundamental frequency, Jitter, Shimmer and SNR(signal to noise ratio) of normal persons were compared with that of vocal polyp patients with CSpeech program for the possibility of distinguishing the pathologic vocal vibration from normal.
@ES The results were as follows:
@EN Comparing the fundamental frequency of vocal polyp patients with normal persons, great change was noted only in female cases. But, the Jitter and Shimmer of vocal polyp patients were greater than normal significantly in both male and female
cases.
SNR was lower than normal in vocal polyp patients.
In the conclusion, fundamental frequency, Jitter, Shimmer and SNR might be meaningful parameters distinguisuing pathologic vibration from normal.
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