The Vocal Clarity of Female Speech-Language Pathology Students: An Exploratory Study

The graduating student SLPs did not produce perceptually clearer voices than the beginning student SLPs. The students' performance voices were not perceptually clearer than their habitual voices. Perceptually clear voice was associated with significantly higher HNR (dB) and lower jitter and shimmer, suggesting that acoustic noise and perturbation contribute to perceptual judgments of vocal clarity.