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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
Memories of the Workshop: Download final programme here: Keynote speakers: Prof. Franco Fussi, Ravenna, Italy Sergio Daniel Cano Ortiz, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
| Prof. Franco Fussi, specialist in Otolaryngology and Phoniatrics, is Managing Director of ASL Audiological Phoniatric Center of Ravenna. He is the scientific coordinator of the course of Higher Education in Artistic Vocology University of Bologna (Ravenna), consultant speech pathologist at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, the Academies of Lyric Art of Osimo, Martina Franca, the Rossini academy of Pesaro, the Italian opera of the School of Teatro Comunale of Bologna and professor of physiology at he Conservatory of Parma. He is member of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri. Dr. Fussi has published several books and articles on pathophysiology of the singing voice in scientific and musical journals and he is the organiser of the series of biannual conferences "La voce artistica" (www.voceartistica.it). |
| Prof. Sergio Daniel Cano Ortiz, electronic engineer, is with the Centre for Neurosciences, Image and Signal Processing (Group of Speech Processing) Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba. He has been working in several research area as: electric & electronic circuit simulation, power system management, analysis & recognition of speech signals, medical applications of speech processing. Currently his main research interests are: infant cry analysis as diagnostic tool, related neurodevelopment assesment techniques, child behavioral patterns and the origins of language. He has been visiting professor at University of Valladolid (S) and at Artificial Intelligence Lab, Free University of Brussels (B). Dr. Cano is the Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Oriente. |
| Special session: Computational and experimental vocal fold modeling |
| S. Thomson, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (USA) |
| C. Brücker, Institute of Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics (IMFD), TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg (D) |
| Special session: Innovative ways for acoustic analysis of non-quasi-periodic voices |
| P. Dejonckere, Experimental ORL Cath. Univ. Leuven (B), Fed. Inst. Occup. Diseases Brussels (B), ORL-Phoniatrics Utrecht Univ. (NL) |
| Special session: Acoustic analysis of Parkinsonian speech: issues methods and applications |
| S. Sapir, Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders, University of Haifa, Haifa (IL) |
