Speech Processing in Diagnosis of Vocal Chords Diseases

Abstract

The paper presents new possibilities in the ways of analyzing voice of patients suffering from voice disorders. Specialized software has been developed for this purpose. Application called Voice disorder diagnostician allows creating own patient database, storing patient's data, capturing voice of patients for further analysis and displaying results of feature extraction algorithm. Common diagnostic methods and procedures takes into count only limited number of parameters. The main idea is to combine medical experience and audio processing techniques in order to achieve desired results.