VoCS (The Voice Communication Sciences) aims to train a new generation of scientists in cognitive neuroscience, acoustics, phonetics, and computing science.
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Feb 18
Check out the highlights from the VoCS Winter School in Switzerland!❄️A week of hands-on sessions,collaborative research&expert-led discussions—marking an important milestone for our doctoral candidates in voice science🎥👇#MSCA #DoctoralTraining #VoiceScience #ResearchInnovation
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Feb 17
The VoCS Winter School program closed with #SharkTank-style pitches from doctoral candidates—showcasing innovative voice science concepts! Big thanks to our lecturers, organizers, and participants for an inspiring week. 👏 #ResearchEthics #MSCA #DoctoralNetwork #VoiceScience
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Feb 17
Day 4 of the VoCS Winter School wrapped up with a deep dive into tech, ethics, and #Innovation in Voice Communication Sciences! From #AudioDeepfake to Intellectual Property, the discussions were stimulating and sparked important reflections on the future of #VoiceScience🎙️⚖️💡
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Feb 11
VoCS Winter School, Day 3 afternoon: Designing behavioral & cognitive neuroscience studies on voice perception (A. Andics): interactive & cooperative learning in action. Plus: Speed Research Dating & outdoor activities to spark new collaborations!🤝
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Feb 11
VoCS Winter School, Day 3 morning: 🎙️Automatic Speaker Recognition—neural speaker verification, embeddings & hands-on with open-source models (S. Madikeri Ragunathan). 📊 FAIR Data—making research findable, accessible & reusable (M. Röthlisberger). #ASR #FAIRdata #OpenScience
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Feb 10
Day 2 of the Winter School,organized by the University of Zurich,wrapped up with modules on Privacy&Personal Data and Open Access(M. Röthlisberger),covering EU&Swiss data protection,copyright&pathways to Open Access,all centred on responsible research.#OpenScience #DataProtection
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Feb 10
Hands-on sessions on Speech Features Extraction(U.Reichel,Audeering)and Data Visualization&Modelling(A. De Luca, UZH).DCs extracted speech features from audio datasets,analyzed emotions using Python & visualized voice data to explore patterns in real time.#DataScience #SpeechTech
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Feb 10
Day 2 (morning): Intro to VoCS DN & Career Development Plan(P.Belin), plus Fundamentals of Voice Acoustics(E.Pellegrino, V.Dellwo).Voices encode identity—gender,age,emotion,accent.DCs explored f0,formants,rhythm & MFCCs,with live voice manipulation demos.#VoiceResearch #Acoustics
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Feb 10
❄️ Day 2 of the VoCS Winter School is here! Our MSCA Doctoral Candidates dive deep into the science of the human voice—covering acoustics, speech features, data modeling, privacy & personal data, and open access. #VoCS #MSCA #VoiceScience
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Feb 9
VoCS Winter School Day 1 - Activity 3🎤
Our training event continues with the Shark-Tank session: teams shaping creative, feasible and scientifically grounded ideas for the future of voice communication. Exciting to see collaboration and innovation in action!✨#MSCA #VoiceScience
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Feb 9
First day. First meeting. First pitches🎤
❄️VoCS Winter School Day 1 brings our MSCA Doctoral Candidates together for the very first time—sharing stories,building teams,finding collaborators,pitching projects in voice science.This is where the journey start✨#MSCA #VoiceScience
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14 Nov 2025
🔊VoCS DCs start their journey at the Winter School: 4 intensive days. Training in acoustics,perception study design,speaker recognition, audio deepfakes research integrity,Open/FAIR data & IP.
9–12 Feb 2026, Herzberg (CH), Univ. of Zurich. #DoctoralTraining #VoiceCommunication
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22 Oct 2025
🎉VoCS is featured in @REA_research’s updated page on AI in research!We’re proud to be among key EU projects advancing AI responsibly. VoCS applies AI in speech perception,vocal health,and synthetic voice tech🔗 rea.ec.europa.eu/research-an…
#AI #VoCS #HorizonEU #SpeechTech #HealthTech
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4 Sep 2025
🔊We are excited to share our latest publication in Science Advances! Our study shows how neurons in the macaque anterior temporal lobe support invariant voice identity recognition even accross acoustic changes.
📰Read: science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126…
#Neuroscience #Voice #BrainResearch
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2 Feb 2025
🔊 Exciting Opportunity for Aspiring Scientists!🎓#voice #scientists #doctoralstudents #acoustics #neuroscience #phonetics #computing
Ready to take the Next Step? Apply here: vocs.eu.com/index.php/data-c…👏
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2 Feb 2025
🔊 PhD Opportunity Alert!🎓✨
Applications are now officially open for Doctoral Candidates in Voice Communication Science! Join cutting-edge research on voice,acoustics,speech,communication & cognitive neuroscience. Apply now: vocs.eu.com/ #PhD #VoiceScience #MSCA
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10 Jan 2025
🚀Calling all future candidates!🌟We're excited to announce that applications for the VoCS project will be opening in February 2025! Learn more about VoCS #MSCA project here vocs.eu.com and get ready to join us!
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20 Dec 2024
Exciting news👏! Applications for the VoCS project open February 2025! Join us as one of 19 Doctoral Candidates in #CognitiveNeuroscience, #Acoustics, #Phonetics, & #ComputingScience. Learn more about the VoCS #MSCA project 👉vocs.eu.com/
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31 Jul 2024
VoCS Consortium members E. Pellegrino (University of Zurich), Finnian Kelly, and Anil Alexander (Oxford Wave Research) attending the 32nd Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics at UQAM in Montréal.
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12 Jul 2024
Check out this insightful paper by Margherita Giamundo, published on June 11th 2024 in the PNAS journal, entitled "A population of neurons selective for human voice in the monkey brain" doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2405588…
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