Speech, Music and Mind 2026
Detecting and Influencing Mental States with Audio
04 MAY 2026, Barcelona, Spain
Workshop
SMM26 aims to bring the potential of speech processing techniques into the practices of preventive care for mental and physical wellbeing utilizing knowledge from music therapy and music psychology. The goal of the workshop is to further the state of art in developing multi-modal indicators understand physiological and psychological conditions for solutions towards physical and mental well-being across geography and cultures. The solutions are primarily rooted in language and music centric themes. Approaches of Ethical and Explainable AI in music and speech are a special focus. This workshop will focus on detecting and influencing mental states, with an emphasis on multi-modal approaches with diverse applications across culture, languages and music
Professor. Björn Schuller
Björn W. Schuller is Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Head of GLAM at Imperial College London/UK, co-founding CEO and current CSO of audEERING – an Audio Intelligence company based near Munich and in Berlin/Germany, Core Member in the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), Principal Investigator in the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Fellow of the Imperial Data Science Institute, and permanent Honorable Dean at TJNU/China and Visiting Professor at HIT/China amongst other Professorships and Affiliations.
Professor. Anja Volk
Anja Volk is Professor of Music Information Computing at Utrecht University, and has a dual background in mathematics and musicology which she applies to cross-disciplinary approaches to music. Her work has helped bridge the gap between scientific and humanistic approaches to music while working in interdisciplinary research teams in Germany, the USA and the Netherlands.
Yuki Mitsufuji
Yuki Mitsufuji is Lead Research Scientist and Vice President of AI Research at Sony AI, and a Distinguished Engineer at Sony Group Corporation. He leads the Creative AI Lab and Music Foundation Model Team, focusing on generative modeling for creative media. His work has been featured at CVPR, ICLR, and NeurIPS, and he has delivered tutorials on audio diffusion models at ICASSP and ISMIR.