JenTower Seminar Room

VRU Meetings

We have regular meetings do discuss current trends in voice research and other related fields.
JenTower Seminar Room
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Voice Research Unit Monthly Meeting

The VRU welcomes interested researchers across all levels of qualifications and all scientific backgrounds. Our regular, open meetings usually take place in presence in Jena, but can also be hybrid or fully online. Meeting invitations are announced via our mailing list. If you are interested to attend or give a presentation, please feel invited to contact our VRU coordinator. 

Information

Time: Friday, 12.15 – 13.45 OR Tuesday 12.15 – 13.45 

Place: Seminar Room JenTower, 18th Floor, Leutragraben 1

If you wish to take part, please contact vru@uni-jena.de

Archive of past talks

  • Summer 2025
    • 26.09.2025 – Voice Cognition Ability Scales (VOCAS): Evaluating a Self-Assessment Tool for Voice Cognition Skills - Preliminary Results. Fatma Bilem and Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 11.07.2025 – Do Social Impressions Affect Judgements of Veracity? Interim Conclusions From a 5-Year Research Journey. Helene Kreysa and Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 27.06.2025 – Going beyond WEIRD-samples in studies on person perception - perspectives and challenges. Jürgen M. Kaufmann, Jena
    • 13.06.2025 –  Effects of sex hormones, cycle phases and age on female fundamental frequency. Melanie Weirich and Adrian P. Simpson, Jena
    • 23.05.2025 –  Vocal Emotion Perception From Rate-Altered Speech (RAS). Selin Arslan, Antonia Kaiser, and Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 25.04.2025 – Our new VRU homepage, Christine Nussbaum, Jena
  • WiSe 2024/2025
    • 29.11.2024 – Multimodal emotion recognition, Prof. Petri Laukka, Stockholm
  • Summer 2024
    • 21.06.2024 – Perception of gender in the voices of prepubertal German-speaking children, Ricarda Funk and Adrian P. Simpson, Jena
    • 31.05.2024 – The Jena Voice research Unit: Past, present and future, Christine Nussbaum, Jena
    • 23.04.2024 –  Gender and speech - hormonal and social aspects, Melanie Weirich, Jena
    • 05.04.2024 –
      1.  High-resolution EMG in combination with 3D video analysis: On the way to automated classification of both facial muscle function and emotional expression, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Jena
      2. Static balance function to analyze multisensory integration, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Jena
  • WiSe 2023/2024
    • 16.02.2024 –  Naturalness of voices -  how humans and artificial agents could learn from one another, Christine Nussbaum, Jena
    • 24.11.2023 –  
      1. Hearing and Communication with a Cochlear Implant - Perspectives from Cochlear Implant Design and Behavioral Observations, Tobias Oberhoffner, Medel Deutschland GmbH, Starnberg
      2. Perception of Emotional Expression in Cochlear Implant Users, Celina von Eiff, Jena
    • 03.11.2023 – Kinship recognition in the human voice, Ayaka Tsuchiya, Jena
  • Summer 2023
    • 29.09.2023 –
      1. Hearing absolutely: A phenomenon of significance, even beyond auditory science!?, Lars Rogenmoser, Jena
      2. The Jena Voice Learning and Memory Test (JVLMT): retest reliability and long-term memory effects, Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 23.06.2023 – What grounds singing voice preferences?, Camila Bruder, Frankfurt
    • 05.05.2023 – Speech Emotion Classification Based On Soundstream Audio Encodings And Their Application In A Glyph-based Visualization System, Daniel Lenhardt and Toni Böswetter, Jena
  • WiSe 2022/2023
    • 10.02.2023 – Attended Talker Decoding Exclusively From Listening-State EEG, Mohamed Elminshawil, Erlangen
    • 02.02.2023 – Approaches for studying hearing and vocal communication in extant and fossil primates including human ancestors, Alexander Stoessel, Jena
    • 02.12.2022 – Reconstructing facial information from the voice (and vice versa): Discussing multisensory predictions based on machine-learning and human data, Gyula Kovacz and Stefan R. Schweinberger, Jena
    • 11.11.2022 – New Tools for Assessing Individual Differences in Voice Perception, Stefan R. Schweinberger, Jena
  • Summer 2022
    • 01.07.2022 – Vocal Emotion Perception in Musicians and Non-Musicians: Acoustic parameters and electrophysiological correlates, Christine Nussbaum, Jena
    • 17.06.2022 – Can cochlear implants in old age reverse cognitive decline due to hearing loss?, Maria Huber, Salzburg
  • WiSe 2021/2022
    • 04.02.2022 - Perceived Naturalness of Emotional Voice Morphs, Christine Nussbaum, Jena
  • Summer 2021
    • 11.06.2021 – On the perception and use of voice cues in listeners with cochlear implants, Hartmut Meister, Köln
    • 09.04.2021 – Vocal Emotion Recognition in personally familiar and unfamiliar voices, Verena Skuk and Christine Nussbaum
  • WiSe 2020/2021
    • 12.02.2021 – Speech naturalness in human and synthetic voices, Manuel Pöhlmann, Jena
    • 29.01.2021 –
      1. Ambiguous statements: What the voice can reveal about confidence, Helene Kreysa, Jena
      2. Multimodal Perception of Emotional Expression in Voices and Faces by Cochlear Implant Users, Celina von Eiff, Jena
    • 08.01.2021 –
      1. Vocal emotion perception: Acoustic parameters and electrophysiological correlates, Christine Nussbaum, Jena
      2. Perception of personality traits from voices - Experiences with online testing and first results, Verena Skuk, Jena
    • 04.12.2020 –
      1. Datablitz, Stefan Schweinberger, Jena
      2. Exploring the role of timbre information in the perception of homogeneity among simultaneous singers – a pilot study, Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 06.11.2020 – Experiments on conversational speech synthesis for spoken dialogue systems“, Sina Zarrieß, Jena
  • Summer 2020
    • 12.08.2020 –
      1. Vocal synchrony as an indicator of outcome and attachment in psychotherapy of social anxiety disorder, Desirée Schönherr, Jena
      2. „Presentation of the ‚final‘ 10-Minute German-Speech-Understanding-Test“ for usage in our group”, Verena Skuk, Jena
    • 10.07.2020 – 
      1. Developing a Self-assessment Tool for Voice Cognition Abilities (VOCA): Work in Progress, Romi Zäske, Jena
      2. Doubtful Statements – What the Voice Reveals about True Conviction, Sophie Keller, Jena
    • 03.07.2020 – Voices make people, and people make podcasts – The influence of familiarity on perceived personality, pleasantness, and attractiveness of podcast moderators, Rebecca Wientzek, Jena
    • 29.05.2020 –
      1. “Pupillometry – a tool to measure listening effort?”, Tobias Oberhoffner, Rostock
      2. “Distinktheit und physikalische Parameter der Stimme: Eine Explorative Darstellung verschiedener Analyse Vorgehensweisen”, Tim Jesgarewsky, Jena
    • 08.05.2020 – Personality in Voices – Presentation and Discussion of Methods, Verena Skuk, Jena
  • Winter 2019/2020
    • 07.02.2020 – EEG correlates of affective vocalizations, Christine Wulf, Jena
    • 10.01.2020 – The spectral structure of sibilants and the perception of vocal gender, Adrian P. Simpson, Jena
    • 13.12.2019 –
      1. Measuring naturalness of voice Stimuli: Parameters and Challenges, Christine Wulf, Jena
      2. Assessing confidence in voice recognition ability with a novel questionnaire based on the Stirling Face Recognition Scale: Part II, Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 15.11.2019 –
      1. Multimodal perception of emotional expression in voices and faces by cochlear implant users, Celina von Eiff, Jena
      2. Assessing confidence in voice recognition ability with a novel questionnaire based on the Stirling Face Recognition Scale: Part I, Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 18.10.2019 – Discussion of research ideas for upcoming student projects, Romi Zäske, Jena
  • Summer 2019
    • 05.07.2019 – Reading Session: Norm-based Coding of Voice Identity In Human Auditory Cortex (Latinus et al., 2013)
    • 14.06.2019 – A novel voice database of pseudospeech, Denise Humble, Jena
    • 17.05.2019 – Stimmenparameter und Sprechererkennung, Tim Jesgarzewsky, Jena
  • Winter 2018/2019
    • 08.02.2019 – Paraverbale Merkmale der Depression, Alisa Shugaley, Jena
    • 06.02.2019 – Der erste Eindruck von Stimme und Gesicht: Wann wird er stabil?, Aktuelle Projektseminardaten, Jena
    • 11.01.2019 – Stimmenwahrnehmung bei Tinnitus, Nils Frisius, Jena
    • 14.12.2018 – Kinship recognition from voices, Stefan R. Schweinberger, Jena
    • 16.11.2018 – Wahrnehmung sozialer Signale in Singstimmen, Clarissa Wendel and Sina Hinzmann, Jena
  • Summer 2018
    • 15.06.2018 – Role of different parameters in vocal affect adaptation, Christine Wulf, Jena
    • 18.05.2018 – Determinanten der Eindrucksbildung über menschliche Stimmen, Helene Kreysa, Jena
    • 27.04.2018 – Vorbesprechung Sprecheraufnahmen II, Denise Humble, Jena
    • 20.04.2018 – Vorbesprechung Sprecheraufnahmen I, Denise Humble, Jena
  • Winter 2017/2018
    • 23.03.2018 – „Ich kann doch hören, dass etwas nicht stimmt“ – Wahrnehmung von Emotionen in der menschlichen Stimme, Christine Wulf, Jena
    • 09.02.2018 – Determinanten der Eindrucksbildung über menschliche Stimmen, Helene Kreysa, Jena
    • Perception of Emotional Expression in Voices by Cochlear Implant Users, Celina von Eiff, Jena
    • 02.02.2018 – Personality in Voices: Individual Differences in Perception and Production, Verena Skuk, Jena
    • 12.01.2018 –
      1. Testverfahren zur Stimmenwahrnehmung: Eine Einführung, Stefan Schweinberger, Jena 
      2. Testverfahren zum Gedächtnis für Stimmen, Denise Humble and Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 01.12.2017 – Vom Einfluss der Stimmendistinktheit auf die Gedächtnisleistung für Sprecher undSprachinhalt, Denise Humble, Jena
    • 10.11.2017 – Stimmenwahrnehmung bei gesunden Hörern mit niedrigen vs. hohen autistischen Tendenzen, Romi Zäske and Julia Endres, Jena
  • Summer 2017
    • 15.08.2017 – Explicit and Implicit Judgments of Voice Attractiveness and Trustworthiness: Two Pupillometry Studies, Helene Kreysa, Jena
    • 16.06.2017 – Stimmakustische Marker sozialer Angst im therapeutischen Kontext, Elizabeth Hertel, Jena
    • 19.05.2017 – Perceptual and acoustic correlates of gender in the prepubertal voice, Adrian P. Simpson, Jena
    • 21.04.2017 – Wahrnehmung und assoziatives Lernen von Sprachinhalt und Sprecheridentität – Eine Pilotstudie, Denise Humble, Jena
  • Winter 2016/2017
    • 03.02.2017 – Electrophysiological Correlates of Voice Memory for Young and Old Speakers in Young and Old Listeners, Romi Zäske, Jena
    • 06.01.2017 – Memory for speaker’s voice – the role of facial trustworthiness, Luise Kessler, Jena
    • Project sketch on vocal cues to social anxiety, Desiree Thielemann, Jena
    • 25.11.2016 – Changes in IDS and ADS during parental leave – project sketch and first results of pilot studies, Adrian P. Simpson, Jena
    • 11.2016 – Acoustic cues to psychological disorders and convergence of prosody in the therapeutic context, Desiree Thielemann, Jena
    • 21.10.2016 – Launch of the Research Seminar: Current Topics in Voice Recognition Research
      Relationship between attractiveness and distinctiveness of voices, Romi Zäske, Jena