"Voice Quality" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
That component of SPEECH which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker's VOICE when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality.
| Descriptor ID |
D014833
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G09.772.925.960
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| Concept/Terms |
Voice Quality- Voice Quality
- Qualities, Voice
- Quality, Voice
- Voice Qualities
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Voice Quality" by people in Profiles.
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Wolfberg J, Whyte J, Doyle P, Gherson S, Muise J, Petty B, Tolejano CJ, Hillman RE, Stadelman-Cohen T, Van Stan JH. Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System for Voice Therapy: Application to Everyday Clinical Care. Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2024 Mar 07; 33(2):814-830.
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Park J, Alnouri G, Eichorn D, Sataloff RT. Correlation Between Presbylarynx and Laryngeal EMG. J Voice. 2022 May; 36(3):413-416.
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Sataloff RT, Naunheim MR, Carroll TL. Singing and the Pandemic: Return to Performance? J Voice. 2021 Mar; 35(2):172-173.
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Sataloff RT, Sarkar A. Voice Tremor Center: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Challenging Problem. J Voice. 2021 May; 35(3):338-339.
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Valentino WL, Park J, Alnouri G, Gracely EJ, Tami A, Vance D, Palmer J, Sataloff RT. Diagnostic Value of Acoustic and Aerodynamic Measurements in Vocal Fold Movement Disorders and their Correlation with Laryngeal Electromyography and Voice Handicap Index. J Voice. 2021 May; 35(3):497.e1-497.e4.
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Ross J, Valentino WL, Calder A, Bigly D, Othman S, McKinnon B, Sataloff RT. Utility of Audiometry in the Evaluation of Patients Presenting with Dysphonia. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2020 Apr; 129(4):333-339.
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Kim SI, Atkinson C, Harris AH, Tibbetts K, Mau T. Primary odynophonia: When pain is out of proportion to dysphonia. Laryngoscope. 2020 04; 130(4):E183-E189.
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Farzal Z, Overton LJ, Farquhar DR, Stephenson ED, Shah RN, Buckmire RA. Sex-based outcomes in type I thyroplasty for nonparalytic glottic incompetence. Laryngoscope. 2019 Nov; 129(11):2543-2548.
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Benito DA, Ferster APO, Sataloff RT. Bilateral Posterior Cricoarytenoid Myoneurectomy for Abductor Spasmodic Dysphonia. J Voice. 2020 Jan; 34(1):127-129.
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Daggumati S, Panossian M D H, Sataloff M D D M A F A C S RT. Vocal Fold Paresis: Incidence, and the Relationship between Voice Handicap Index and Laryngeal EMG Findings. J Voice. 2019 Nov; 33(6):940-944.