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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
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 .
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
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