Achievements and Developments in Mass Models of Vocal Fold Vibrations

The proposed mass model of vocal fold vibration holds a significant importance in the auxiliary diagnosis and treatment of human vocal fold disorders. Mathematical models are proposed in aerodynamics and acoustics to simulate vocal fold vibration during phonation. This has always been a hot topic in pathological linguistics research. Over the past few decades, researchers have designed various types of mass models of vocal fold vibration based on experiments. These models differ in principles, computational complexity, and degrees of freedom. Therefore, we classify and describe the mass models according to modeling methods. We summarize the research status and characteristics of different models, and based on this, we look forward to future research directions for vocal fold mass models.