In Vitro Experimental Investigation of Voice Production

0363700 - ÚT 2012 RIV AE eng J - Journal Article
Kniesburges, S. - Thomson, S.L. - Barney, A. - Triep, M. - Šidlof, Petr - Horáček, Jaromír - Brücker, Ch. - Becker, S.
In Vitro Experimental Investigation of Voice Production.
Current Bioinformatics. Roč. 6, č. 3 (2011), s. 305-322. ISSN 1574-8936. E-ISSN 2212-392X
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20760514
Keywords : artificial vocal folds * flow-induced acoustics * fluid-stucture-acoustic interaction * human phonation
Subject RIV: BI - Acoustics
Impact factor: 0.898, year: 2011

The process of human phonation involves a complex interaction between the physical domains of structural dynamics, fluid flow, and acoustic sound production and radiation. Given the high degree of nonlinearity of these processes, even small anatomical or physiological disturbances can significantly affected the voice signal. In the worst cases, patients can lose their voice and hence the normal mode of speech communication. To improve medical therapies and surgical techniques it is very important to understand better the physics of the human phonation process. Due to the limited experimental access to the human larynx, alternative strategies, including artificial vocal folds, have been developed. The following review gives an overview of experimental investigations of artificial vocal folds within the last30 years. The models are sorted into three groups: static models, externally driven models, and self-oscillating models. The focus is on the different models of the human vocal folds and on the ways in which they have been applied.
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