Doctoral training across the VoCS network
A network-wide programme of intensive training events for VoCS doctoral candidates
The VoCS training programme
The VoCS doctoral programme is built around a sequence of intensive, network-wide training events, the VoCS "Schools", hosted across the consortium's partner institutions.
Together they give doctoral candidates a shared scientific foundation, hands-on experience with the tools and workflows used across labs and industry partners, and a professional network spanning the whole consortium.
Network-wide training events
VoCS Winter School: Current Methods in Voice Communication Sciences (5 days)
The flagship entry point to the doctoral programme, hosted by the University of Zurich (Switzerland).
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VoCS Autumn School & VoiceID 2026 — Voice Research in Jena
Two consecutive events hosted in Jena (Germany): the VoCS Autumn School on the role of voice in health, followed by the VoiceID 2026 interdisciplinary conference.
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VoCS Spring School: Communication, Signal Processing and Machine Learning
Provisional programme, subject to change. Day 1: (TS) Workshop: personal profiling, feedback management and communication training (DCs, HR Business Partner Rikke Gundborg, OTIERH); Team Building: Murder mystery. Day 2: (TS) Recruitment seen from the corporate side: How to search for jobs, what is important to recruiters, and how to write cover letters/CV (J. Schacht, H. Jensen, OTIERH). (STK) Audio Signal Processing for speech processing and speech enhancement (T. Alstrøm, Tech Uni Denmark; P. Messiano, L. Bramsløw, N. Pontoppidan, OTIERH). Day 3:(STK) Machine Learning for Signal Processing (T. Alstrøm, Tech Uni Denmark). (TS) Real-world assessment of hearing and communication performance (S. Aliakbary-Hosseinabadi, J. H. Christensen, D. Wendt, OTIERH). Day 4:(TS) Project and stakeholder training workshop for collaborating within and across teams and functions (HR Business Partner R. Gundborg, H. Innes-Brown OTIERH); Poster presentation by DCs. Day 5:(no DCs) Review meeting / Consortium meeting.
VoCS Summer School: The Vocal Brain
Provisional programme, subject to change. Day 1:(STK) Basics of functional neuroanatomy (P. Belin, T. Chaminade, O Coulon, AMU); Team building: Hike in the Calanques and Paintball competition. Day 2: (STK) Speaker ID modelling in neural audio generation (Y. Jamagushi, NII); (TS) Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Management of IP, Patent Technology Transfer (N. Pontoppidan OTIERH). Day 3: (STK) Brain and Voice: Cerebral bases of voice processing in humans and other animals (P. Belin, AMU; A. Andics, ELTE; S. Frühholz, UiO); Forensic speech science vs speech technology (L. Tavi, NBI); Automatic Speaker Recognition; and benchmarking/evaluation of Voice Deepfake detectors (T. Kinnunen, UEF); (TS) The Art of Grantsmanship (M.H Grosbras, P; Belin, AMU). Day 4:(TS) Voice Tech Entrepreneurship (C. Teissedre, ODIA); (STK) Presentation of the Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain (P. Blache; A; M. Montant; A. Rey; AMU). Presentations by DCs. 3-min teaser session by DCs, and Poster Reception (DCs and external). Day 5: (no DCs) Review meeting / Consortium/EAB meeting.
2nd VoCS Spring School: Evolution of Voice Communication
Provisional programme, subject to change. Day 1:Day 1: (STK) Wildpark visit focused on vocal communication (A. Andics, ELTE); Team building: Escape rooms. Day 2: (STK) Drivers of signal evolution, function and emergence of acoustic communication across species (N. Mathevon U Lyon, K. Pisanski UJM); (TS): Communicating scientific results with lay audience, stakeholders, and the press (posters, oral presentations); Media Training (E. Rodero UPF, E. Kubinyi ELTE). Day 3: (STK) Bioacoustics: vocal information encoding in mammals (D. Reby UJM, T. Faragó ELTE); (TS) Creating short video abstracts for scientific publications (A. D. Molnár, M. Jurkovics, Naturefilm). Day 4: (STK) Comparative neuroethology: imaging mammalian voice processing mechanisms (P. Belin AMU, S. Frühholz UiO, A. Andics ELTE); (TS) Scientific blogs and social networks, publication accessibility (S. Bőhm, L. R. Zsiros, ELTE). Day 5: (no DCs) Review meeting / Consortium meeting.
Final VoCS Meeting: From Voice Communication Sciences to Voice Technology (5 days)
Provisional programme, subject to change. Côte d’Azur. Day 2: (TS) Entrepreneurship training (L. Merlo, BPI France; S. Rouget, Foundation Sophia Antipolis; M. Segovia, OM; M. Clerc, Inria). Day 3: (TSK) Distinguished collaborators of OM (W. Nogueira, U Hospital of Hannover; E. Lopez-Poveda, U Salamanca; T. Goehring, U Cambridge; M. Fetcher, U Southampton); (TS) Adapt your elevated pitch for industry or academia I. Presentations by all DCs (half to academic, half to industrial panels). Day 4: (TS) Adapt your elevated pitch for industry or academia II. Concluding Round Table with EAB. VoCS Concluding Party. Day 5: (no DCs) Review meeting / Consortium / EAB meeting.
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