Purpose: Studies associated with menopause and voice change for teachers are important issues, but the limited studies are conducted. this study investigates that the menopause has an influence on the voice through the comparative analysis of acoustic...
Purpose: Studies associated with menopause and voice change for teachers are important issues, but the limited studies are conducted. this study investigates that the menopause has an influence on the voice through the comparative analysis of acoustic parameters and voice disturbance index of female teachers with menopause. Methods: In order to discover the characteristics of female voice teachers with menopause, 28 menopause middle school female teachers and 50 non-menopause middle school teachers participated in this study. In order to investigate the characteristics of the voice of female teachers with menopause, the comparative analysis of the acoustic speech parameters extension utterance /a/, /i/, /u/, MDVP of CSL was used, and nVHI-10 was used for evaluation to investigate the recognition accuracy of the speech between groups. Results: There were significant differences in the comparative analysis result of Fo, which is between acoustic parameters(Fo, jitter, shimmer, NHR) of /a/, /i/, /u/ according to menopause. The comparative result of between groups total score of nVHI-10 according to menopause, there were no statistically significant differences. The result from comparative analysis between sub-items, there were significant differences in E23 and E7. Total score of nVHI-10 through menopause, there were no significant differences in all of /a/,/i/,/u/ acoustic parameter(Fo, jitter, shimmer, NHR). Conclusions: There were no significant differences in total score of nVHI-10 even though Fo shows differences in female teachers with menopause compared to female teachers with non-menopause, because subjects did not recognize their own voices.