Comment diagnostique-t-on l'aphonie ?

Le diagnostic repose sur l'examen clinique et l'anamnèse, parfois complété par une laryngoscopie.

Quels tests peuvent être effectués ?

Des tests de la voix, des examens d'imagerie et des analyses sanguines peuvent être réalisés.

L'aphonie est-elle toujours permanente ?

Non, l'aphonie peut être temporaire ou permanente selon la cause sous-jacente.

Quels spécialistes consultés pour l'aphonie ?

Un oto-rhino-laryngologiste (ORL) est souvent consulté pour évaluer l'aphonie.

Peut-on utiliser des outils d'évaluation ?

Oui, des outils comme des échelles de voix peuvent aider à évaluer la gravité de l'aphonie.

Quels sont les symptômes de l'aphonie ?

Les symptômes incluent une voix rauque, faible ou absente, et parfois des douleurs à la gorge.

L'aphonie s'accompagne-t-elle d'autres signes ?

Elle peut s'accompagner de toux, de difficultés à parler ou de sensations de gêne dans la gorge.

L'aphonie peut-elle être aiguë ou chronique ?

Oui, l'aphonie peut être aiguë, survenant soudainement, ou chronique, persistant sur le long terme.

Y a-t-il des signes d'alerte ?

Des signes comme une douleur intense, une difficulté à respirer ou à avaler nécessitent une consultation urgente.

L'aphonie affecte-t-elle la communication ?

Oui, l'aphonie impacte significativement la capacité à communiquer verbalement.

Comment prévenir l'aphonie ?

Éviter de crier, hydrater les cordes vocales et éviter le tabac sont des mesures préventives.

Le tabagisme influence-t-il l'aphonie ?

Oui, le tabagisme peut endommager les cordes vocales et augmenter le risque d'aphonie.

L'hydratation est-elle importante ?

Oui, une bonne hydratation aide à maintenir la santé des cordes vocales et à prévenir l'aphonie.

Les allergies peuvent-elles causer l'aphonie ?

Oui, les allergies peuvent provoquer une inflammation des voies respiratoires et affecter la voix.

Faut-il éviter certains aliments ?

Éviter les aliments irritants comme les épices fortes peut aider à protéger la voix.

Quels traitements sont disponibles pour l'aphonie ?

Les traitements incluent la thérapie vocale, des médicaments et parfois la chirurgie selon la cause.

La thérapie vocale est-elle efficace ?

Oui, la thérapie vocale aide à rééduquer les cordes vocales et à améliorer la voix.

Des médicaments peuvent-ils aider ?

Des anti-inflammatoires ou des corticostéroïdes peuvent être prescrits pour réduire l'inflammation.

Quand la chirurgie est-elle nécessaire ?

La chirurgie est envisagée si des lésions structurelles des cordes vocales sont présentes.

Y a-t-il des remèdes naturels pour l'aphonie ?

Des remèdes comme le miel et les infusions peuvent apaiser la gorge, mais ne remplacent pas un traitement médical.

Quelles complications peuvent survenir avec l'aphonie ?

Des complications incluent des troubles de la communication et des impacts psychologiques comme l'anxiété.

L'aphonie peut-elle entraîner des problèmes psychologiques ?

Oui, la perte de la voix peut causer du stress, de l'anxiété et affecter la qualité de vie.

Des infections peuvent-elles être liées à l'aphonie ?

Certaines infections des voies respiratoires peuvent provoquer une aphonie temporaire.

L'aphonie peut-elle affecter le travail ?

Oui, l'aphonie peut limiter les capacités professionnelles, surtout dans des métiers nécessitant la voix.

Y a-t-il des risques de récidive ?

Oui, selon la cause, l'aphonie peut récidiver, nécessitant un suivi médical régulier.

Quels sont les facteurs de risque de l'aphonie ?

Les facteurs incluent le tabagisme, l'exposition à des irritants et des infections fréquentes.

L'âge influence-t-il le risque d'aphonie ?

Oui, le risque d'aphonie augmente avec l'âge en raison de l'usure des cordes vocales.

Les professions vocales sont-elles à risque ?

Oui, les chanteurs et enseignants sont plus susceptibles de développer des problèmes vocaux.

Le stress peut-il aggraver l'aphonie ?

Oui, le stress peut exacerber les troubles vocaux et contribuer à l'aphonie.

Les antécédents médicaux jouent-ils un rôle ?

Oui, des antécédents de maladies respiratoires ou de reflux peuvent augmenter le risque d'aphonie.

Aphonie - Informations médicales vérifiées

Speech intelligibility changes the temporal evolution of neural speech tracking.

03 2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119894 PMID: 36693596

Listening to speech with poor signal quality is challenging. Neural speech tracking of degraded speech has been used to advance the understanding of how brain processes and speech intelligibility are ...

Humans Speech Intelligibility Speech Perception Brain Auditory Perception +2 autres

A Transparent Mask and Clear Speech Benefit Speech Intelligibility in Individuals With Hearing Loss.

09 11 2023

DOI: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00636 PMID: 37788660

The purpose of the study is to investigate the impacts of a surgical mask and a transparent mask on audio-only and audiovisual speech intelligibility in noise (i.e., 0 dB signal-to-noise ratio) in ind... Thirty-one individuals with hearing loss (from 22 to 74 years old) completed keyword identification tasks to measure face-masked speech intelligibility in noise. A mixed-effects logistic regression mo... In the audio-only mode, the GHL group showed reduced speech intelligibility regardless of other factors, whereas the MHL group showed decreased speech intelligibility for the transparent mask more tha... The findings indicate that, when using face masks, either a transparent mask or a surgical mask negatively affects speech understanding in noise for individuals with hearing loss. Using a transparent ...

Humans Young Adult Adult Middle Aged Aged +6 autres

Vowel Acoustics as Predictors of Speech Intelligibility in Dysarthria.

17 08 2023

DOI: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00287 PMID: 36795536

This study sought to determine if alternative vowel space area (VSA) measures (i.e., novel trajectory-based measures: vowel space hull area and vowel space density) predicted speech intelligibility to... The Grandfather Passage was read aloud by 40 speakers with dysarthria of varying etiologies, including Parkinson's disease (... Traditional VSA was the sole significant predictor of speech intelligibility for both the OTs (... The findings suggest that traditional token-based vowel measures better predict intelligibility than trajectory-based measures. Additionally, the findings suggest that VAS methods are comparable to OT...

Humans Speech Intelligibility Dysarthria Speech Acoustics Phonetics +2 autres

ASR-based speech intelligibility prediction: A review.

12 2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2022.108606 PMID: 36154977

Various types of methods and approaches are available to predict the intelligibility of speech signals, but many of these still suffer from two major problems: first, their required prior knowledge, w...

Speech Intelligibility Cognition Generalization, Psychological Machine Learning Speech Perception

Lexical Predictors of Intelligibility in Young Children's Speech.

17 08 2023

DOI: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00294 PMID: 36626389

Speech perception is a probabilistic process, integrating bottom-up and top-down sources of information, and the frequency and phonological neighborhood of a word can predict how well it is perceived.... We measured the intelligibility of 165 children between 30 and 47 months in age on 38 different single words. We performed an item response analysis using generalized mixed-effects logistic regression... There was considerable variation among the words and the children, but between-word variability was larger in magnitude than between-child variability. There was a clear positive effect of target word... Word frequency and neighborhood competition both had an effect on intelligibility in young children's speech, so listener expectations are an important factor in the selection of items for children's ...

Humans Child, Preschool Adult Speech Linguistics +4 autres

Intelligibility of speech produced by sighted and blind adults.

2022

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272127 PMID: 36107945

It is well known that speech uses both the auditory and visual modalities to convey information. In cases of congenital sensory deprivation, the feedback language learners have access to for mapping v... Twenty adult listeners performed two perceptual identification tasks in which vowels produced by congenitally blind adults and sighted adults were used as stimuli. The vowels were presented in the aud... The results showed that, although blind speakers did not differ from their sighted peers in the auditory modality, they had lower scores in the audiovisual and visual modalities. Some vowels produced ... Together, the results suggest that adult blind speakers have learned to adapt to their sensory loss so that they can successfully achieve intelligible vowel targets in non-noisy conditions but that th...

Blindness Canada Humans Speech Acoustics Speech Intelligibility +2 autres

Foreign Accented-Speech and Perceptions of Confidence and Intelligence.

Aug 2023

DOI: 10.1007/s10936-023-09940-9 PMID: 36867293

The purpose of the current study is to explore listeners' perception of accented speech in terms of confidence and intelligence. To this end, three groups of listeners were asked to rate speakers of E...

Humans Speech Perception Speech Intelligibility Language Cognition +1 autres

Intelligibility improves perception of timing changes in speech.

2023

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279024 PMID: 36634109

Auditory rhythms are ubiquitous in music, speech, and other everyday sounds. Yet, it is unclear how perceived rhythms arise from the repeating structure of sounds. For speech, it is unclear whether rh...

Humans Speech Intelligibility Speech Perception Phonetics Acoustics +3 autres

Beyond Speech Intelligibility: Quantifying Behavioral and Perceived Listening Effort in Response to Dysarthric Speech.

17 11 2022

DOI: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00136 PMID: 36198057

This study investigated whether listener processing of dysarthric speech requires the recruitment of more cognitive resources (i.e., higher levels of listening effort) than neurotypical speech. We als... A word recall paradigm was used to index behavioral listening effort. The primary task involved word transcription, whereas a memory task involved recalling words from previous sentences. Nineteen lis... Results revealed significant effects of dysarthria on the likelihood of correct word recall, indicating that the transcription of dysarthric speech required higher levels of behavioral listening effor... Results suggest that cognitive resources, particularly listeners' working memory capacity, are more taxed when deciphering dysarthric versus neurotypical speech. An increased demand on these resources...

Humans Speech Intelligibility Dysarthria Speech Perception Listening Effort +1 autres

Validity of Off-the-Shelf Automatic Speech Recognition for Assessing Speech Intelligibility and Speech Severity in Speakers With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

08 06 2022

DOI: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00589 PMID: 35623334

There is increasing interest in using automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate impairment severity or speech intelligibility in speakers with dysarthria. We assessed the clinical validit... Using speech samples collected from 52 individuals with ALS and 20 healthy control speakers, we compared word recognition rate (WRR) from the commercially available Google Cloud ASR API (Machine WRR) ... Human WRR achieved better accuracy than Machine WRR when indexing speech severity, and, although related, Human and Machine WRR were not strongly correlated. When the speech signal was mixed with nois... Results indicated that the OTS ASR system was inadequate for early detection of speech impairment and grading overall speech severity. While Machine and Human WRR were correlated, ASR should not be us...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Dysarthria Humans Reproducibility of Results Speech Disorders +3 autres

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