Ingo R. Titze is a voice scientist and executive director of the National Center for Voice and Speech and

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in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the

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. He also teaches at the Summer Vocology Institute, also housed at the University of Utah. He is a Distinguished

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at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the

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and has written several books relating to the human voice.

Education

Titze received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah, and then an M.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Physics from the University of Utah. He graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from

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in 1972. In 1976 he went to

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, where he received his first of many grants from the

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Career

Prior to his conjoint positions at the Universities of Utah and Iowa (for which he began in 2009 and 1990, respectively) he was the Chief Scientist and Executive Director for the National Center for Voice and Speech from 1994–2009, which was then housed at the

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. From 1983–1994 he served as the Director of

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for the Recording and Research Center, also housed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and from 1989–1994 he was adjunct professor in the Westminster Choir College at Princeton, New Jersey. Titze was a consultant to the Department of

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Speech Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are th ...

Analysis at

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, Murray Hill, a visiting Lecturer at the Department of Hearing/Speech Science at the

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, and an associate professor for the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology for the

from 1979–1995. His early career positions included

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in the Department of

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at the

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) ( ar, جامعة الملك فهد للبترول و المعادن, – short: ar, جامعة البترول ), after 1975 as the University of Petroleum and Minerals and initially as the ...

, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, assistant professor for the Sensory Communication Research Laboratory at Gallaudet College from 1976–1979, lecturer in physics and electrical engineering at California State Polytechnic University, physics instructor at Pomona College from 1973–1974, and Brigham Young University from 1972–1973. Before accepting a position to work as a research engineer at the Boeing Company of Seattle from 1968–1969, he worked at the National Reactor Test Station (1965–1966) and as a research engineer at

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in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Titze began his career as a summer research engineer for

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in Arco, Idaho in 1963.

Vocology

Between the years of 1979–1981, Titze developed a new course entitled ''Principles of Voice Production'', which was taught jointly in the School of Music. During the 1980s he developed various university courses that included

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, biomechanics of speech, experimental

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

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, voice therapy and vocal pedagogy, all of which culminated in him coining the phrase '

vocology Vocology is the science and practice of vocal habilitation, or vocal training and therapy.Titze IR. (1996). What is vocology? Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 21:5-6. Its concerns include the nature of speech and language pathology, the defects of ...

', which he then proposed as a discipline parallel to audiology.

Research

Titze has been awarded multiple grants during his career from the National Institutes of Health, to study voice health and voice disorders. His research on the voice is prolific, with over 160 research articles listed at the NIH, alone.

Media

* 2015 Appeared in BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms, "Singing Machines" *2013 Appeared in Reuters, BBC, Pacific Standard, Iowa Now, and AIP regarding his “Voice Vote” article * 1992 Featured on Television Documentary, NDR, Hamburg, Germany * 1986 Part of a documentary on Quantum, The Science Series, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, produced and directed by Peter Hiscock * 1985 Part of a nationally aired feature on Voice Research, Cable News Network (CNN), ''Science and Technology Today'' series, produced by Charles Crawford * 1985 Part of a documentary entitled "Figures of Speech" on the series Innovation, WNET (Public Television Network), produced by Duncan Scott

Awards

*2012: Kay-Pentax Lecturer and Awards, American Speech Language Hearing Association *2010: Honors of the Association,

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*2009: Science Writing Award for Professional in Acoustics, The Acoustical Society of America *2007:

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, the

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*2004: Wullstein Lecture and Award, German Ear, Nose, Throat Association *2003: Karl Storz Lecture Award, American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology *2002: Willard R. Zemlin Lecture Award,

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*1996: American Laryngological Association Award *1996: Honored Alumnus, College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young Univ. *1995: University of Iowa Regents Award *1992: Fellow, American Speech Language Hearing Association *1992: Editor's Award Speech Science, American Speech Language Hearing Association *1990: Quintana Award, The Voice Foundation *1989: Claude Pepper Award,

*1986: Part of a documentary on

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, a science series of the

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*1984: William and Harriott Gould Award for laryngeal physiology *1984: Jacob Javits Neurosciences Investigation Award *1983: Fellow, Acoustical Society of America *1969: NDEA Graduate Fellow *1959: Josephine Bean Scholarship

Bibliography

Books

* ''Fascinations with the Human Voice''. National Center for Voice and Speech. Translated into German, Japanese, Finnish, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French. Titze, I.R. (2010). * ''Vocology: The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation''. National Center for Voice and Speech, Salt Lake City, UT. Titze, I.R., & Verdolini, K. (2012). * ''The Myoelastic-Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation''. Denver, CO 80204: National Center for Voice and Speech (2006). Titze, I.R. *''Principles of Voice Productio''n. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (1994). Reprinted by the National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver, CO 80204 (2000). Translated into Chinese, German, Japanese and Portuguese. Titze, I.R. *''Vocal Fold Physiology: Frontiers in Basic Science''. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group (1992). Titze, I.R. (Ed.). *''Vocal Health and Science''. Jacksonville, FL: The National Association of Teachers of Singing (1991). Sataloff, R.T. & Titze, I.R. (Eds.). *''Vocal Fold Physiology: Biomechanics, Acoustics, and Phonatory Contro''l. Denver CO: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (1985). Titze, I.R. & Scherer, R.C. (Eds.).

References

External links

National Center for Voice and Speech's official website

The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of Iowa's official website

The LSVT Foundation's official website

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