Toward Enhanced Voice-Related Self-Reports: Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validity.

Purpose: This article provides a commentary on voice-related self-reports and presents various shortcomings endemic in the development and validation of these measures. Emphasis is placed on issues of construct validity, translation, and cross-cultural adaptation. Finally, a demonstration is provided to elucidate the importance of cross-cultural adaptation.

Listeners' Attitudes Towards Young Women With Glottal Fry.

Purpose: Glottal fry is an increasingly prevalent voice type in young female speakers. The purpose of this study was to identify employers' perceptions toward young female speakers presenting with glottal fry and the impact on hirability.

Methods: Sixty employers responsible for hiring at their business in the Southeast region of the United States completed a survey developed to capture employers' perceptions toward young women using glottal fry.

Potential Biophysiological Mechanisms Underlying Vocal Demands and Vocal Fatigue.

Patients with complaint of vocal fatigue have perceptual, acoustic, and aerodynamic outcomes that are heterogeneous in nature. One reason may be due to different underlying biophysiological mechanisms that lead to these heterogeneous clinical presentations. Five potential mechanisms are proposed: neuromuscular, metabolic, vocal tissue, afferent, and central neural.

Laying the Groundwork to Study the Heterogeneous Nature of Vocal Fatigue.

Vocal fatigue has remained an elusive construct-despite its significant impact on communication, vocation, and quality of life. Current frameworks define vocal fatigue in the context of vocal demands and vocal demand-responses. However, the impact of factors like individuals' baseline vocal fitness and perception of the demand are not well understood.

Vocal Fatigue Index in Teachers Using Mokken Analysis.

Purpose: Vocal fatigue (VF) is a primary vocal symptom experienced by professional voice users, such as teachers, whose voice is an occupational tool. The study determines the utilization of the Vocal Fatigue Index (VFI), a 19-item scale in identifying symptoms of VF and its severity in teachers.

Methods: Using responses of 695 teachers who completed the VFI, Mokken scaling was conducted on the items to identify the experiences of VF and its associated hierarchical nature of VF symptoms in teachers.

Toward a Consensus Description of Vocal Effort, Vocal Load, Vocal Loading, and Vocal Fatigue.

Purpose The purpose of this document is threefold: (a) review the uses of the terms "vocal fatigue," "vocal effort," "vocal load," and "vocal loading" (as found in the literature) in order to track the occurrence and the related evolution of research; (b) present a "linguistically modeled" definition of the same from the review of literature on the terms; and (c) propose conceptualized definitions of the concepts. Method A comprehensive literature search was conducted using PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Scientific Electronic Library Online. Four terms ("vocal fatigue," "vocal effort," "vocal load," and "vocal loading"), as well as possible variants, were included in the search, and their usages were compiled into conceptual definitions.