Summer Training School on Voice Assessment

The Multi-Disciplinary Summer Training School on Voice Assessment will concern the following themes: Anatomy and physiology of the larynx, tissue properties of the vocal folds and biomechanics of voice production, voice and speech acoustics, various research methods that can be applied in voice assessment, analysis of the validity of methods in voice assessment, and principles and methodological concerns in database acquisition. In addition to theoretical introduction in the principles of various methods like kymography, electroglottography, mathematical modelling, and acoustic analysis methods including e.g. inverse filtering, the participants will be provided with demonstrations and possibility to apply the methods in practice. The instruction relates to and presents outcomes of the international research collaboration carried out in Cost Action 2103 working groups. 

All teachers are internationally renowned voice researchers representing different fields. Ingo R. Titze, Ph.D (Physics) from the USA, one of the leading voice scientists in the world, will be the external expert lecturer. Other teachers are management committee and working group members in Cost 2103 Action: Philippe Dejonckere, MD, Ph.D (Otolaryngology and Phoniatrics), from Belgium is the chairman of the Cost 2103 Action, Yannis Stylianou, Ph.D (Computer Science) from Greece is the vice-chairman of the action; other teachers are: Malte Kob, Ph.D.(Electrical Engineering) from Germany, Peter Murphy, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) from Ireland, Jan Svec, Ph.D (Physics) from the Czech Republic, Jean Schoentgen, Ph.D. (Physics) from Belgium, Mette Pedersen, MD, PhD. (Otolaryngology and Phoniatrics) from Denmark, Juan Ignacio Godino Llorente, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) from Spain and Paavo Alku, Ph:D. (Electrical Engineering) from Finland.