Universidade de Aveiro's voice evaluation protocol

This paper presents Universidade de Aveiro’s VoiceEvaluation Protocol for European Portuguese (EP), and apreliminary inter-rater reliability study. Ten patients withvocal pathology were assessed, by two Speech and LanguageTherapists (SLTs). Protocol parameters such as overallseverity, roughness, breathiness, change of loudness (CAPEV),grade, breathiness and strain (GRBAS), glottal attack,respiratory support, respiratory-phonotary-articulatorycoordination, digital laryngeal manipulation, voice qualityafter manipulation, muscular tension and diagnosis, presentedhigh reliability and were highly correlated (good inter-rateragreement and high value of correlation). Values for theoverall severity and grade were similar to those reported in theliterature