Prosthetic Speech

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Prosthetic Speech

Monotonous speech produced by an artificial sound generator, which is required by a patient with a laryngectomy for cancer; electrical artificial larynges have a buzzing sound generator that competes with speech generated through the mouth, and thus is also ‘mechanical’ in nature

prosthetic speech

ENT Monotonous speech produced by an artificial sound generator, required by Pts with laryngectomies for CA; electrical artificial larynges have a buzzing sound generator that competes with speech generated through the mouth, and thus is also 'mechanical' in nature. See Artificial sound generator.

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