Voice Handicap Index (VHI) Quiz

Share the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) on your physician visit.

Take this interactive quiz to find out how well your voice is working for you.

This quiz is an example of a type of tool used regularly in the clinical care of patients who are having vocal difficulties. The quiz was adapted from the "Voice-Related Quality of Life Measure", developed at the Vocal Health Center of the University of Michigan Health System. It is designed to measure how well your voice is working for you in your daily activities.

Instructions: You will read a series of 10 statements about problems you may be having with your voice, each asking you to rate the severity of the problem for you. To determine how "bad" it is (the amount of each problem that you are having), think of both how often the problem occurs and how severe it is when it happens. You will use the 5-point scale below, with "5" being the worst possible. Your answers should be based upon your average voice quality over the past 2 weeks or so: