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management. I use MyCalmBeat and Free Your Mind . I also use the binaural beat technology in Pzizz Energiser myself to take a quick 15–20 minute nap during the day. Friends have also recommended Musician’s Hypnosis , as a configurable program to help with things like exam anxiety and stagefright. But there are many hypnosis-type apps for both iPhone and iPad. 10 New apps not yet trialled

the nose and past the soft palate to view the vocal folds, clicking on key anatomical structures along the way. With Draw MD – ENT , there are pre-set anatomical diagrams that you can then highlight and draw or stamp over, educating clients about the voice and vocal pathology. 7 Acoustic analysis of voice quality, e.g., Voice Test For a sustained “ah” this app provides measures of perturbation in the voice signal – percent jitter and shimmer – that more or less equate to vocal roughness as a perceptual judgement. No claims are made about its accuracy however, and you need to take into account all the caveats that go with acoustic analysis of voice quality. I haven’t yet found a single app that measures harmonic-to- noise ratio either. 8 Other audio programs Other audio-type programs include those such as delayed auditory feedback ( DAF ), babble noise for masking ( BabelBabble ), and various hearing screening apps (e.g., Hearing Test , Siemens Hearing Test ), plus voice recorder apps such as iTalk or Recorder Pad Pro . 9 Calm training The calm training app is not necessarily specific to voice patients, but is useful for clients for stress and anxiety

And lastly, all the other apps I haven’t used much yet, but plan to: including AudioTools , for the serious audiophile, Passaggio for visual feedback about pitch and loudness, metronome apps such as iBeat and Tap Metronome , Voice Changer (for exploring some wildly different voices), and fun altered-voice playback apps like Talking Tom Cat and Singing Fingers .

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