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Autopercepção, percepção de ouvintes leigos e acústica das vozes de mulheres transgênero
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2022-07-15Registro en:
COSTA, Paloma Hortencio da. Autopercepção, percepção de ouvintes leigos e acústica das vozes de mulheres transgênero. 2022. 28 p. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Fonoaudiologia), Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2022.
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Costa, Paloma Hortencio da
Resumen
Purpose: To make a comparison of how listeners identify transgender women’s voice, and how transgender women self-evaluate their own voice and describe transgender women’s acoustic vocal parameters and their self-evaluation. Methods: Cross-sectional and retrospective study, approved by the Ethics Committee. The data were collected from identification, voice recording and self-evaluation questionnaire. Then, the answers to the questionnaire Transsexual Voice Questionaire male-to-female (TVQ mtf) and the answers to the additional question were analyzed. Besides that, naive judges evaluated the voices as “really feminine”, “a little feminine”, “neutral”, “a little masculine” and “really masculine”. It was also made the acoustic analysis with the data of fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, harmonics-to-noise ratio (HNR) and Cepstral Peak Prominence-Smoothed (CPPS) in the software PRAAT, 6.2.03 version. The data was analyzed descriptively as well as comparatively of the self-evaluation and the assessment of the listeners. Results: 10 transgender women were included in this study. Their answers to the self-evaluation questionnaire show the great impact of the voice in the participants’ lives. Four cisgender men and two cisgender women rated the participants of this study’s voices similarly to the transgender women’s ratings, frequently considering it as “a little masculine” or “really masculine” (p= 0,06). In the acoustic analysis, it was observed that the fundamental frequency was about 147Hz and the noise and stability’s acoustic parameters were between normal range for healthy women. The CPPS numbers found in transgender women were a little lower than the cutoff for healthy voices. Conclusion: The listeners rated the voice of transgender women in a similar way to their self-evaluation. Besides, there was a great impact of their voices in the lives of the participants of this study and the acoustic analyzes shows healthy voices, but in a low frequency range. The speech therapy has an important role in transgender women who have complaints about their voices and in raising awareness to the population about the vocal diversity.