Speech Pathology

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Our voice is important because it defines us as an individual; it is our voice identity. Every person’s voice is different from each other which make it unique. Our voice does numerous amounts of things for us and one of the things that it can do is detect how we are feeling. For example, if a person is sad, his/her voice would indicate that because his/ her pitch would be lower. This would occur due to the decrease of the frequency.
In Dr. Patel’s videos, she explains the importance of our voice. I found it fascinating that speech pathologists can help people, who are unable to have a voice due to a disorder, around the world find their own distinctive and customized voice. TO achieve this, a few hundred to thousands of utterances from a

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