Audio Analysis Workshop 2016

IMG_2562 On August 19 2016 the annual Audio Analysis Workshop was held. This year’s edition was co-sponsored by the Audio Analysis Lab’s projects funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research and the Villum Foundation. It featured 14 scientific talks and 2 keynote talks with 18 participants from Lund University, Aalborg Unviversity, Delft University of Technology, GN Resound, and Ashton University. The two keynote talks were on the topic Parkinson’s disease, how it affects the voice, and how it can be detected from the voice. The first keynote talk, entitled Braak´s hypothesis and its impact on research and treatment in Parkinson´s disease was given by neurologist Lorenz Oppel, Aalborg University Hospital. The second keynote talk was given by Dr. Max Little, Ashton University, and was entitled Algorithms for feature extraction in voicebased analysis of Parkinson’s disease. In his talk, Max gave an overview of his many years of research on the topic. The scientific talks were on varied topics, including fast implementations, microphone arrays, music analysis, measurement of speech intelligibility, multi-pitch estimation, sparse approximations, classification of  height, weight,  and other things from speech, room geometry estimation, and speech enhancement.