Project Kick-Off Meeting and Audio Analysis Workshop

On August 19 2016 the annual Audio Analysis Workshop was held. This year’s edition was co-sponsored by the Danish Council for Independent Research and served also as a kick-off meeting for the project. 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 workshop had a Parkinson’s disease flavored theme with two keynote talks 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 remaining scientific talks were on different topics, including fast implementations, microphone arrays, music analysis, speech intelligibility, multi-pitch estimation, sparse approximations, classification, and speech enhancement.