Table 3.
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).