MAVEBA 2025  Programme

Programme for MAVEBA 2025 - Please note that the workshop program is tentative. Check this page regularly for possible updates or organizational changes.

Instructions for presenters

All contributions will be oral presentations (20 minutes per speaker). Presenting authors are asked to send their presentations in advance, in PowerPoint - latest version - or PDF format, preferably one week before the workshop, to compbios.unifi@dinfo.it. No specific template is required.  For video presentations it is suggested to use fairly balanced audio of medium volume.

Tuesday, December 16

09:00 - 9:20 - Welcome Greetings

9:30 - 11:00 -  Session IA - Analysis of pathological voice

• VOICE MAPPING IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: TRACKING OBJECTIVE CHANGES AFTER INJECTION LARYNGOPLASTY
  S. Capobianco, G. Björck, F. Forli, L. Bruschini, A. Nacci, S. Ternström

• MACHINE LEARNING STRATIFICATION OF PHONATION NEUROMOTOR ALTERATION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
  A. Gómez-Rodellar, J. Mekyska, A. Álvarez-Marquina, D. Palacios-Alonso, P. Gómez Vilda

• SPONTANEOUS SPEECH PRODUCED BY BRAZILIAN AND PORTUGUESE COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS
  A. A. Maia, A. N. P. Almeida, A. C. A. M. Ghirardi, Luis M. T. Jesus

• ΜU-BAND ACTIVITY DESYNCHRONIZATION BEHAVIOR FOUND IN PHONATION FROM TWO CASES OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
  A. Gómez-Rodellar, M. Jodra-Chuan, P. Gómez-Vilda

11:00 - 11:30 -  Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:30 -  Special Session I - The role of AI in the field of phoniatrics and laryngology: present and future
Organized by G. Cantarella

• EVALUATING STATE OF THE ART VOICE CONVERSION MODELS FOR DYSPHONIC AND ELECTRO-LARYNX SPEECH
  B. Mayrhofer, M. Hagmueller, F. Pernkopf, P. Aichinger

• THE ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LARYNGOLOGY: CURRENT EVIDENCE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
  E. Bellini, C. Sampieri, F. Mora, G. Peretti

• VOCAL BIOMARKERS OF DYSPHONIA AND THEIR INTERPRETABILITY: CHALLENGES FOR AN UNDERSTANDABLE AI
  F. Calà

• IS VOICE THE NEW BLOOD? CURRENT APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF AI-BASED VOCAL BIOMARKERS.

C. Robotti

• FROM ALGORITHMS TO PHONATION: A REVIEW OF AI APPLICATIONS IN OCCUPATIONAL VOICE

L. C. Cantor Cutiva

13:30 - 14:30 -  Lunch

14:30 - 16:30 -  Session II - Singing voice analysis

• THE INFLUENCE OF ESTILL VOICE TRAINING FIGURES ON ACOUSTIC AND ELECTROGLOTTOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS
  M. Frič, A. Dobrovolná

• PERCEPTUAL AND ACOUSTIC EVALUATION OF VIBRATO IN DIFFERENT SINGING STYLES
  E. Globerson, O. Amir, O. I. Ronen, N. Amir

• EFFECTS OF OVERTONE FLUTE BREATHING TRAINING ON VOICE RANGE PROFILES AND SPECTRAL OUTPUT
  M. Frič, P. Amarante Andrade, J. Passerin, J. Kantor, M. Kučera

• IMPACT OF VOCAL TRACT RESONANCES ON OBOE PLAYING
  A. Koop, M. Kob

• MULTIMODAL FEATURE ANALYSIS FOR DETECTING EXPRESSIVITY IN SINGING USING A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH
  N. Kotsani, V. Lyberatos, S. Kantarelis, A. Andreopoulou, G. Stamou, and A. Georgaki

• TO CREAK OR NOT TO CREAK, THAT IS THE QUESTION
  N. Henrich Bernardoni, A. Ménard, T. Linke, A. Katriou, M. Girod-Roux, I. Atallah

16:30 - 17:00 -  Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:00 -  Session III - Voice analysis and synthesis

• ABOUT THE EXCESS VARIABILITY OF POPULAR ACOUSTIC FEATURES OF VOCAL JITTER AND SHIMMER
  J. Schoentgen, A. Kacha , F. Grenez

• A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC VOWELS WITH PREDEFINED ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS
  D. Gasperini, S. Orlandi, A. Bandini

• FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF VOCAL FOLD DYNAMICS WITH LARYNGEAL MUSCLE ACTIVATION-DEPENDENT PARAMETERS
  C. Ponce, J. A. Parra, S. D. Peterson, H. Ramirez, M. Zañartu

18:00 - 23:00 -  SOCIAL EVENTS and GALA DINNER (TBA)

Wednesday, December 17

9:30 - 11:00 -  Session IB - Analysis of pathological voice

• DESIGNING AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL FOR ELICITING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PHONETIC BIOMARKERS IN RUSSIAN SPEAKERS
  E.V. Nikolaeva, K.V. Evgrafova, V.V. Evdokimova, P.А. Skrelin

• NON-INVASIVE SPEECH ANALYSIS FOR DYSPHAGIA DETECTION IN AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
  F. Pierotti, D. Gasperini, S. Capobianco, L. Becattini, F. Bianchi, A. Nacci, A. Santoro, B. Fattori, G. Siciliano, A. Bandini

• MULTIPARAMETRIC VOICE ASSESSMENT OF ADDUCTOR SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA PRE- AND POST-TREATMENT WITH BOTULINUM TOXIN INJECTION: A PROPOSAL FOR IMPLEMENTATION
  G. Baracca, C. Birca, M. Kob, R. Cenedese, G. Marioni, C. de Filippis, L. Franz

• FEASIBILITY AND CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF AN UPDATED MULTIPARAMETRIC VOICE ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL BASED ON SPEECH DIADOCHOKINETIC PARAMETERS IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON DISEASE
  L. Franz, R. Cenedese, C. Birca, M. Kob, G. Baracca, C. de Filippis, G. Marioni

11:00 - 11:30 -  Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 -  Special Session II - Historical aspects of voice recordings and analysis
Organized by P. H. Dejonckere

• HUMANITY’S FIRST VOICE RECORDINGS
  P.H. DeJonckere

• ENRICO CARUSO – A VOCAL PROFILE BASED ON HISTORICAL RECORDINGS
  B. Richter

• A SURVEY ON VIBRATO PARAMETERS IN HISTORIC OPERA SINGERS
  I. Ferrante

13:00 - 14:00 -  Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 -  Special Session III - Updates on voice range profile measurements

Organized by G. Baracca and M. Kob

• DETAILED ANALYSIS OF VOICE RANGE PROFILES
  M.Kob, G.Baracca

• “VOICE RANGE PROFILE” OR “VOICE MAP”? ON TERMS, RATIONALES AND TECHNIQUES
  S. Ternström, P. Pabon

• LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF VOICE PROPERTIES IN MUSIC PEDAGOGY STUDENTS
  J. L. Thiele, E. Nagl, M. Kob

• THE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF A TRANSGENDER SINGER
  H. Browne, M. Kob, J. L. Thiele, I.  Kansy, B. Schneider-Stickler

16:00 - 16:30 -  Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:30 -  Session IV - Voice emotions and personality

• HARMONY IN SPEECH: MUSICAL STRUCTURE AS A MARKER OF PERSONALITY TRAITS
  D. Valeeva

• A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS ON LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF EXAM STRESS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS OVER ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES
  F. Calà, I. Colpizzi, C. Sica, C. Caudek, A. Lanatà, L. Frassineti

• PROSOVR: EMOTIONAL PROSODY ACOUSTIC ASSESSMENT IN HEALTHY AND SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS THROUGH VIRTUAL REALITY ASSISTED DATA COLLECTION
  A. Araujo, S. Sousa, A. C. Gaspar, C. Silveira, J. Silva, C. Queirós, M. Leite, S. Ferreira, J. Martins, F. Torres, A. Campos 

17:30 - 18:00 -  Proclamation of the winner of the Student Competition and Farewell