1. Development and Validation of the Japanese Version of the Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice
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Ichiro Tateya, Shintaro Fujimura, Ryuji Uozumi, Tohru Sogami, Kanako Kondo, Tomoyuki Haji, Osamu Shiromoto, Chika Abe, Koichi Omori, Yoshitaka Kawai, Masanobu Mizuta, Ryo Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Kojima, and Yo Kishimoto
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Linguistics and Language ,Consensus ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,MEDLINE ,computer.software_genre ,Language and Linguistics ,Speech Acoustics ,Speech and Hearing ,Japanese language ,Japan ,Speech Production Measurement ,Perception ,Humans ,Quality (business) ,Consensus Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) ,auditory perceptual analysis ,media_common ,Protocol (science) ,Observer Variation ,business.industry ,Reproducibility of Results ,Dysphonia ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,computer ,Natural language processing - Abstract
Purpose: Auditory-perceptual evaluation is essential for the assessment of voice quality. The Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) provides a standardized protocol and assessment form for clinicians to analyze the voice quality and has been adapted into several different languages. The aims of this study were to develop the Japanese version of the CAPE-V and to investigate its reliability and validity. Method: The Japanese CAPE-V consisted of the same three speech contexts (vowels, sentences, and conversation) as developed in the original English version. The sentences were designed according to the concepts of the original version and reviewed by Japanese phoneticians. To validate the usefulness of the Japanese CAPE-V, voices of 173 Japanese-speaking subjects (76 subjects with dysphonia and 97 without voice complaints) were evaluated by five experienced judges, according to the Japanese CAPE-V as well as the GRBAS (Grade, Roughness, Breathiness, Asthenia, Strain) scale. Results: The Japanese CAPE-V provided a high interrater reliability (intraclass correlation coefficients [ICCs] > .85 for all the parameters) as well as a high intrarater reliability (ICCs > .85 for all the parameters). In addition, overall severity, roughness, and breathiness in the Japanese CAPE-V were highly correlated with the corresponding dimensions in the GRBAS scale, having Spearman correlation coefficients greater than .8. Conclusion: This study demonstrated the reliability and validity of the newly developed Japanese CAPE-V as an auditory-perceptual evaluation instrument.
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- 2021