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Comparison of Cepstral Peak Prominence Measures Using the ADSV, SpeechTool, and VoiceSauce Acoustic Analysis Programs in Vocally Healthy Female Speakers

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This study examined the correlation of, and agreement between, cepstral peak prominence (CPP) measures obtained from three acoustic analysis programs: Analysis of Dysphonia in Speech and Voice (ADSV), SpeechTool, and VoiceSauce. Voice data recorded from sustained /a/ vowel and connected speech of two cohorts of vocally healthy female participants were analysed using program default settings to measure smoothed CPP (CPPS) in ADSV, CPPS and CPP in SpeechTool, and CPP in VoiceSauce. Intraclass correlation coefficients, linear regression, and Bland–Altman plots were used for testing the correlation and agreement between these programs. There was good correlation between ADSV and SpeechTool with respect to vowel CPPS in both cohorts. Connected speech CPPS from these two programs showed moderate correlation in cohort 1 and good correlation in cohort 2. CPP values obtained from VoiceSauce were highly correlated with those from SpeechTool in both tasks. Bland–Altman plots showed that there were differences between programs in CPPS and CPP values. While CPPS and CPP values from these programs were correlated, they did not show absolute agreement. This implied possible different thresholds of detecting dysphonic severity across different acoustic analysis programs.

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The authors would like to thank the Australian Acoustical Society for funding this research. Thanks also to Professor Shaheen Awan for provision of detailed information and support regarding using of the ADSV and to Tara Cliffe for her assistance with editing and analysis of the data. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Dr Liang Voice Program at The University of Sydney.

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Madill, C., Nguyen, D.D., Eastwood, C. et al. Comparison of Cepstral Peak Prominence Measures Using the ADSV, SpeechTool, and VoiceSauce Acoustic Analysis Programs in Vocally Healthy Female Speakers. Acoust Aust 46, 215–226 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40857-018-0139-6

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