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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Voice. 2019 Apr 13;34(5):748–762. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2019.03.006

Table 3.

Effect sizes (Cohen’s d) for a variety of measures

Measure Baseline Final Effect
size
P
Mean SD Mean SD
Pitch and loudness fo (Hz) - reading 183.49 5.84 134.04 0.83 −11.86 <0.001
foSD (Hz) - reading 21.34 2.95 15.92 1.44 −2.34 0.046
fo (ST) - reading −0.74 0.58 −6.17 0.11 −13.03 <0.001
foSD (ST) - reading 1.94 0.31 2.01 0.20 0.28 0.75
Minimum pitch (Hz) 149 8.56 114 5.40 −4.86 0.004
Maximum pitch (Hz) 1294 20.9 848 37.65 −14.66 <0.001
Phonatory frequency range (ST) 37.46 1.27 34.73 1.42 −2.03 0.07
Loudness (dB SPL) 74.64 1.48 75.08 0.80 0.37 0.67
Loudness variability (dB SPL) 12.23 2.07 10.41 1.49 −1.01 0.28
Physiological 4th Formant location (Hz) 3694 33.3 3554 13.2 −5.52 0.002
Vocal tract length (cm) 16.3 0.14 16.9 0.06 5.74 0.002
Subglottal pressure (cm H2O) 8.17 0.98 7.23 0.89 −1.01 0.28
Phonation threshold pressure (cm H2O) 4.66 0.23 3.37 0.15 −6.60 <0.001
VALI AP Compression 1.00 0.00 0.67 0.58 −0.82 0.37
VALI Glottal closure 2.33 0.58 1.67 0.58 −1.15 0.23
VALI Phase closure 0.80 0.18 1.19 0.10 2.74 0.03
VALI Regularity 96.67 5.77 100.00 0.00 0.82 0.37
Voice quality CAPE-V Overall Severity (%) 3.70 0.99 1.04 0.44 −3.49 0.01
CAPE-V Roughness (%) 1.23 2.14 1.23 0.33 0 1
CAPE-V Breathiness (%) 3.32 1.15 0.00 0.00 −4.08 0.007
CAPE-V Strain (%) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 1
CPP (dB) - reading 8.03 0.44 8.75 0.29 1.91 0.08
LH (dB) 35.65 0.66 29.38 1.40 −5.71 0.002
Airflow (L/s) 0.21 0.01 0.23 0.01 1.64 0.11
Jitter (ppq5) % 0.16 0.04 0.22 0.01 2.17 0.06
Shimmer (apq5) % 1.46 0.31 3.30 0.35 5.60 0.002
Harmonics-to-noise ratio (dB) 23.46 0.88 16.57 0.63 −8.97 <0.001
Perception of gender rating (100 = definitely female; 0 = definitely male) 96.2 1.24 30.03 2.83 −30.27 <0.001

Baseline values are over first three timepoints; final are over final three timepoints. Effect sizes are Cohen’s d between baseline and final sessions; p values are derived from two-sample t-tests over these six total timepoints (p < .05 are in bold).