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The AVFA2009 Proceedings are available in paper (ISBN: 84-95227-64-9), CD-ROM (ISBN: 978-84-95227-65-2).

A free version of the CDROM can be downloaded from this site

The jury, after a careful evaluation of the papers presented, considered awarding the following work:

"Evaluation of a synthesizer of disordered voices".  S. Fraj, F. Grenez, J. Schoentgen.

The AVFA2009 organizing committee warmly congratulates the authors.

The detailed scientific program of AVFA 2009 is now available.

AVFA2009 has become an ISCA-supported event. For this reason, student participants may apply to ISCA registration and accommodation grants.

For further information, refer to the ISCA grants web page.

It is our pleasure to announce the keynote speakers invited to the 3rd Advanced Voice Function Asssement International Workshop:

• Prof. Osamu Fujimura

Prof. Fujimura is Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He established and directed the Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics at the University of Tokyo. In 1965, he led the speech section of the Acoustical Society of Japan, receiving its Award for Distinguished Service in 1999. He collaborated for four years with the research laboratory in electronics at MIT and for two years with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. For was a director at Bell Laboratories (AT&T) for fifteen years, serving in the Departments of Linguistics and Speech Analysis and Artificial Intelligence Research. He was professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University for fifteen years.

• Prof. Philippe Dejonckere

Philippe H. DeJonckere, M.D., Ph.D., is the chairman of COST-Action 2103, and chairman of the European Laryngological Research Group (ELRG) incorporated within the European Laryngological Society (ELS). This group of clinical researchers sought out a cooperation with engineers and physicists specialized in signal processing and modeling, and this resulted in COST Action 2103 "Advanced Voice Function Assessment". P. H. DeJonckere is ENT-physician / Phoniatrician, also certified specialist in Occupational Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine and Forensic Medicine. He is currently full professor at the Utrecht University (NL), in charge of the Master programme "Clinical Language, Speech & Hearing Sciences", guest professor at the Catholic University of Leuven (B) and visiting professor at the University of Lille (F). He also is appointed as General Coordinator of the Scientific Council at the Federal Institute of Occupational Diseases in Brussels. He is past-president of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri and of the Dutch Society of Voice, Speech & Language Pathology, member of the editorial board of 11 scientific journals, and authored 7 books, 139 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 69 chapters in books.

The preliminary program of AVFA 2009 is now available.

Due to the strict deadline initially fixed just after the New Year’s vacation, we have received several requests about extending the deadline for submissions for the Advanced Voice Function Assessment Workshop, so we are pleased to announce that the organizing committee decided to extend it until Friday, February 6th at midnight, GMT.

The call for contributions for the 3rd Advanced Voice Function Assessment International Workshop is now open. For further information see the call for papers or contact the conference secretariat.

The registration for the conference is now open. Please, register as soon as possible to benefit from the reduced fee.

We have negotiated special fares for AVFA2009 attendees in high-quality hotels. If you are interested in taking profit of this offer, please indicate so when you make your reservation.