Subject: [AUDITORY] CFP Interspeech 2021 - Special Session on Voice Quality Characterization for Clinical Assessment From: Uniud <carlo.drioli@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:22:52 +0100Dear List, We announce a special session on voice quality characterization for=20 clinical voice assessment, to be held at Interspeech 2021, 30 August - 3=20 September, 2021 in Brno, Czechia. We cordially invite you to participate=20 in the special session by submitting a paper with your recent research=20 in the field. _________________________________ Interspeech 2021 Special Session on: "Voice quality characterization for clinical voice assessment: Voice=20 production, acoustics, and auditory perception" Brno, Czechia, 30 August - 3 September, 2021 _________________________________ 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 _______________________________ The appraisal of voice quality is relevant to the clinical care of=20 disordered voices. It contributes to the selection and optimization of=20 clinical treatment as well as to the assessment of the outcome of the=20 treatment. Levels of description of voice quality include the=20 biomechanics of the vocal folds and their kinematics, temporal and=20 spectral acoustic features, as well as the auditory scoring of=20 hoarseness, hyper- and hypo-functionality, creakiness, diplophonia,=20 harshness, etc. Broad and fuzzy definitions of terms regarding voice=20 quality are in use, which impede scientific and clinical communication. Aim of the special session is to contribute to the improvement of the=20 clinical assessment of voice quality via a translational approach, which=20 focuses on quantifying and explaining relationships between several=20 levels of description. The objective is to gather new insights,=20 advancement of knowledge and practical tools to assist researchers and=20 clinicians in obtaining effective descriptions of voice quality and=20 reliable measures of its acoustic correlates. Topics of interest=20 include, but are not limited to, 1. the statistical analysis and automatic classification, possibly=20 relying on state-of-theart machine learning approaches, of distinct=20 types of voice quality via non-obtrusively recorded features 2. the analysis and simulation of vocal fold vibrations by means of=20 analytical, kinematic or mechanical modelling, 3. the interpretation and modeling of both acoustic emission and/or=20 high=E2=80=93speed video recordings such as videolaryngoscopy and videoky= mography, 4. the synthesis of disordered voices jointly with auditory=20 experimentation involving synthetic and natural disordered voice stimuli. Please feel free to contact the organisers if you need more information. Organisers: _______________________________________________________ Philipp Aichinger (philipp.aichinger@xxxxxxxx) Abeer Alwan (alwan@xxxxxxxx) Carlo Drioli (carlo.drioli@xxxxxxxx) Jody Kreiman (jkreiman@xxxxxxxx) Jean Schoentgen (jschoent@xxxxxxxx) --=20 ---------------------------------------------- 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