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PHONANIUM’S MISSION

According to Kent & Read (2002, p. 16): “The acoustic signal of speech is of particular interest because it intervenes between the production and perception of speech. That is, the acoustic signal is at once the output of the production system and the input to the processes of perception. Because the acoustic signal of speech encodes linguistic, emotional, and personal information in the act of human communication, it is an important goal to develop effective means for its analysis.”

ACOUSTIC VOICE AND SPEECH ANALYSIS FOR ALL CLINICIANS

PHONANIUM strongly beliefs in the value of acoustic methods in voice and speech clinics. Acoustic methods offer objective solutions for (a) the documentation of most vocal phenomena both quantitatively and qualitatively, (b) the measurement of specific aspects of voice/speech signals, and consequently (c) the tracking of voice/speech interventions. As such, they continue to form one of the corner stones in clinical as well as scientific voice/speech assessment, regardless of the speech-language pathology area. Not only voice disorders, but also hearing impairments, dysarthria, apraxia of speech, laryngectomy, head and neck oncology, etc. can affect both the production and the sound of the airborne speech signal. This counts for children as well as for adolescents and adults.

For relevant acoustic methods to be at all voice/speech clinicians’ disposal, PHONANIUM offers several scripts (i.e., macro’s or executable texts consisting of menu and action commands) to automate acoustic voice/speech analyses and to draw relevant graphs in the program Praat (Paul Boersma & David Weenink, Institute for Phonetic Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; www.praat.org). All these scripts were written by a voice/speech clinician for voice/speech clinicians and scientist or related professionals.

CLINICAL ELEMENTS OF PHONATORY SOUND

Currently, multiple elements of phonatory sound can be measured and illustrated by one or more of the following PHONANIUM scripts: fundamental frequency, intensity level, voice range estimation, spectrography, cepstrography, and Acoustic Voice Quality Index. Solutions for other phonatory and articulatory sound elements (such as vocal tremor and formant structure) are under investigation.

With this website, PHONANIUM aims at promoting state-of-the-art voice/speech clinics through sophisticated and high-quality yet accessible acoustic voice/speech analyses. It allows to purchase instructional video’s with these script, with information on how to implement/use these scripts and how to interpret their output, and to contact us with specific questions for e.g. research and development. It offers solutions/answers to problems/questions such as: how can I optimize my audio recordings for the purpose of clinical acoustic analyses, how can I measure the smoothed cepstral peak prominence, how can I calibrate my intensity level measures, how can I couple my scripts to a button for automated operations in the program Praat, how can I draw a voice range profile, etc.?

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Last update: October 03, 2024.

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Academic degrees

Bachelor in speech-language pathology and audiology, B.Sc. (1998). University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
Master in speech-language pathology and audiology, M.Sc. (2001). University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
Doctor of philosophy in social health sciences: speech-language pathology and audiology, Ph.D. (2010). University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

Professional activities

Rehabilitation center, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. July 1998, July 1999, and July 2000. Clinical speech-language pathologist.
Independent speech-language pathology practice, Maldegem, Belgium. January 2002 – June 2002. Clinical speech-language pathologist.
Department of Speech-Language Therapy, Jan Palfijn General Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. May 2002 – June 2002. Clinical speech-language pathologist.
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Sint-Jan General Hospital, Bruges, Belgium. July 2002 – July 2014. Director, clinical speech-language pathologist.
Executive Committee, Flemish Association for Speech-Language Therapists (VVL), Belsele, Belgium. January 2004 – currently. Executive board member.
Faculty of Education, Health & Social Work, Department of Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. September 2004 – currently. Visiting lecturer ‘Voice and voice disorders’.
Faculty of Health Care, Department of Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology, University College Vives, Bruges, Belgium. September 2004 – June 2014. Visiting lecturer ‘Neurolinguistics’.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, European Institute for ORL, Sint-Augustinus General Hospital, Wilrijk (Antwerp), Belgium. August 2014 – currently. Clinical scientist, vocologist.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. September 2017 – currently. Visiting professor ‘Instrumental phonetics’.

Awards

2006-2007 award of the Flemish Association of Speech-Language Therapists, for the article “Dejaeger, E., Delesie, C., Maryn, Y., & Simpelaere, I. (2006). Logopedische therapie van verbale apraxie en dysartrie: enquête, interactieve behandeling en casus [Speech-language therapy of apraxia of speech and dysarthria: questionnaire, interactive treatment and case study]. Logopedie, 19, 70-80.”. 12th December 2008, Antwerp, Belgium.
1998-2008 award of the Ghent University Faculty of Social Health Sciences, for post-graduate scientific activities. 10th October 2009, Ghent, Belgium.
2010 best paper award in the speech-language pathology/vocal pedagogy category of Journal of Voice, for the article “Maryn, Y., Corthals, P., Van Cauwenberge, P., Roy, N., & De Bodt, M. (2010). Toward improved ecological validity in the acoustic measurement of overall voice quality: combining continuous speech and sustained vowels. Journal of Voice, 24, 540-555.”. 04th June 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
2014 best poster award at Fall Voice Conference, for the poster “Maryn, Y., Verguts, M., Schatteman, I., van Dinther, J., Verstreken, M., Zarowski, A., Somers, T., & Offeciers, E. (24/10/2014). Acoustic Voice Quality Index with the program Praat. Fall Voice Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA.”. 25th October 2014, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
2013-2014 award of the Flemish Association of Speech-Language Therapists, for the book “Maryn, Y. (2013). De Acoustic Voice Quality Index in het programma Praat: een praktische handleiding [The Acoustic Voice Quality Index in the program Praat: a practical guide]. Belsele, Belgium: Vlaamse Vereninging voor Logopedisten.”. 20th March 2015, Ghent, Belgium.

Publications

Oral presentations

Poster presentations

Guided dissertations

Committees

Editorial Board Logopedie (official bimonthly journal of the Flemish Association of Speech-Language Therapists VVL). Member, September 2000-January 2020.
Executive Committee of the Flemish Association of Speech-Language Therapists VVL. Member, October 2003-.
Center for Continuing Education of the Flemish Association of Speech-Language Therapists VVL. Chair, January 2011-January 2020.
Center for Continuing Education of the Flemish Association of Speech-Language Therapists VVL. Member, January 2020-.
Professional Practice Commission of the Comité Permanent de Liaison des Orthophonistes/Logopèdes de l’Union Européenne (CPLOL, Standing Liaison Committee of Speech and Language Therapists / Logopedists in the European Union). Representative for Flemish Association of Speech-Language Therapists VVL, October 2010-January 2020.
Scientific Committee of the 8th CPLOL Congress in 2012 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Member.
Scientific Committee of the 9th CPLOL Congress in 2015 in Florence, Italy. Member.
Scientific Committee of the 12th Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVOC12) in 2017 in Ghent, Belgium. Member.
Committee for the initial accreditation of the academic master Voice Technology, Accreditation organization of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO) in 2020 in Groningen, The Netherlands. Member

Organized events

Reference

Kent RD, Read C (2002). Acoustic analysis of speech (2^nd edition). San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group.

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About us

PHONANIUM’S MISSION

ACOUSTIC VOICE AND SPEECH ANALYSIS FOR ALL CLINICIANS

CLINICAL ELEMENTS OF PHONATORY SOUND

PHONANIUM IS GLOBAL!

Europe

Belgium (113)

The Netherlands (11)

Italy (9)

United Kingdom (5)

France (4)

Spain (3)

Finland (2)

Germany (2)

Romania (2)

Sweden (2)

Poland (3)

Croatia (2)

Latvia (2)

Portugal (2)

Czech Republic (1)

Austria (1)

Estonia (1)

Greece (1)

North America

United States (104)

Canada (20)

South America

Brazil (4)

Argentinia (1)

Chili (1)

Asia

Turkiye (7)

Korea (3)

China (1)

Israel (2)

Jordan (1)

Malaysia (1)

Lebanon (1)

Saudi Arabia (1)

Taiwan (1)

Oceania

Australia (5)

New Zealand (1)

Africa

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