4th Advanced Voice Function Workshop (York) announcement
AVFA4: 4th Advanced Voice Function Workshop Merchant Taylor's Hall, York, UK Wednesday 19th May and Thursday 20th May.
The 4th Advanced Voice Function Workshop will be held in York, England between 9.00am on Wednesday 19th May 2010 and 12.30pm on Thursday 20th May 2010.
Following this meeting will be a meeting for members of COST 2103 from lunchtime on Thursday 20th May 2010 to the afternoon of Friday 21st May 2010.
Accepted papers will be eligible for a fast-track review for publication in a Special COST 2103 Issue of Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology (LPV).
KEY DATES:
> Call for papers is now open
> Closing date for 500 word Abstract Submission: 19th February 2010
> Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 12th March 2010
> Closing date for Special Issue of LPV fast-track review submission: 1st May 2010
The call for papers is now open. Particular topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Future trends in automatic voice disorder detection
- Future strategies in substitution voices
- Future strategies for voice parameterization and modelling
- Future signal processing strategies for the analysis of normal, professional and disordered voices
- Future health and support needs for the professional vocal performer
- New horizons in automatic voice quality and voice disorder assessment and rating o New horizons in vocal fold image analysis
- New horizons in professional vocal performer pedagogy
- New horizons in disordered speech analysis
- New horizons in robust voice fundamental frequency estimation
- New horizons in voice pedagogy o Next steps in furthering understanding of voice physiology and biomechanics
- New ways of modelling voice production
- New voice evaluation protocols o Tomorrow's clinical treatment evaluation
- Tomorrow's applications and organisation of vocal disorder databases
- Tomorrow's speech enhancement strategies for pathological & oesophageal voices
Each abstract should include a title, list of authors, contact details for principal author, and they should be no longer than 300 words. Abstracts should be sent by email to the Workshop General Chair (David Howard -dh@ohm.york.ac.uk) by 19th February 2010.
Decisions will be sent out by email by the 12th March 2010.
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~dmh8/DMH-web-COST2103-York-2010/index.htm
A poster version is attached - we would be grateful if you could display this locally.
