Our Goals

Dissemination to the General Public

- To maintain a Vocal Academy for practical consumer advice and information, including general vocal hygiene, drug use, and prevention of vocal fatigue

- To develop a historical record of voice and speech research.
- To solicited and distribute monographs, translational articles, video class lectures, research reports, text books, and other research and educational items.
- To develop high-quality computer animations of voice and speech production as educational products.

- To validate simulation software for voice and speech production and post the validation data.
- To post mathematical transformations and algorithms between units of production and perception.
- To post scientific standards for time-frequency analysis for voice and speech.

- To link to the Iowa Head and Neck protocols for information about clinical disorders.
- To post scientific underpinnings of intervention exercises.

- To provide a database of signals from simulations of adult and child-like voice and speech production for use in testing signal processing algorithms.
- To provide a database of vocal tract area functions for modeling speech.
- To post the scientific underpinnings of relation of acoustic sensitivity of the vocal tract to speech production.
- To compare and contrast human vocalization with vocalization of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

- To provide consultation in development and implementation of voice and speech research and technology in consideration for support of the NCVS.
- To support the Utah Center for Vocology with teaching materials.
- To share information and coordinate activities with the Pan American Vocology Association, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Acoustical Society of America, and The Voice Foundation.
- To sponsor and assist in organizing regular meetings of the International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics (ICVPB).