[AUDITORY] CFP Interspeech 2021 - Special Session on Voice Quality Characterization for Clinical Assessment

[Uniud <carlo.drioli@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear List,

We announce a special session on voice quality characterization for 
clinical voice assessment, to be held at Interspeech 2021, 30 August - 3 
September, 2021 in Brno, Czechia. We cordially invite you to participate 
in the special session by submitting a paper with your recent research 
in the field.

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Interspeech 2021 Special Session on:

"Voice quality characterization for clinical voice assessment: Voice 
production, acoustics, and auditory perception"

Brno, Czechia, 30 August - 3 September, 2021
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https://sites.google.com/view/voicequality-interspeech2021/home

http://www.interspeech2021.org

Paper submission deadline is March 26, 2021
Paper update deadline is April 2, 2021
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The appraisal of voice quality is relevant to the clinical care of 
disordered voices. It contributes to the selection and optimization of 
clinical treatment as well as to the assessment of the outcome of the 
treatment. Levels of description of voice quality include the 
biomechanics of the vocal folds and their kinematics, temporal and 
spectral acoustic features, as well as the auditory scoring of 
hoarseness, hyper- and hypo-functionality, creakiness, diplophonia, 
harshness, etc. Broad and fuzzy definitions of terms regarding voice 
quality are in use, which impede scientific and clinical communication.

Aim of the special session is to contribute to the improvement of the 
clinical assessment of voice quality via a translational approach, which 
focuses on quantifying and explaining relationships between several 
levels of description. The objective is to gather new insights, 
advancement of knowledge and practical tools to assist researchers and 
clinicians in obtaining effective descriptions of voice quality and 
reliable measures of its acoustic correlates. Topics of interest 
include, but are not limited to,

1. the statistical analysis and automatic classification, possibly 
relying on state-of-theart machine learning approaches, of distinct 
types of voice quality via non-obtrusively recorded features

2. the analysis and simulation of vocal fold vibrations by means of 
analytical, kinematic or mechanical modelling,

3. the interpretation and modeling of both acoustic emission and/or 
high–speed video recordings such as videolaryngoscopy and videokymography,

4. the synthesis of disordered voices jointly with auditory 
experimentation involving synthetic and natural disordered voice stimuli.

Please feel free to contact the organisers if you need more information.

Organisers:
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Philipp Aichinger (philipp.aichinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Abeer Alwan (alwan@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Carlo Drioli (carlo.drioli@xxxxxxxx)
Jody Kreiman (jkreiman@xxxxxxxx)
Jean Schoentgen (jschoent@xxxxxxxxx)

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Carlo Drioli, PhD
Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Informatiche e Fisiche (DMIF)
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics
University of Udine
Via delle Scienze 206
33100 Udine
phone: +39-0432-558448
email: carlo.drioli@xxxxxxxx