Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- acoustic and physiological analyses of speech breathing
- breathing, pausing, and phonation patterns under different mental, emotional, physical conditions
- pathological/clinical aspects of breathing, pausing, and the voice, including pain.
- personality traits (including attractiveness), speaking styles, and their links to breathing, pausing, and the voice
- breathing, pausing, and/or voice patterns in human-machine-interaction and speech technology in general
- interrelations between breathing, pausing, and the voice
- interrelations with other features of prosody, such as F0 and intensity
- silent, fluent, and disfluent pauses, hesitation phenomena
- breathing, pausing and interaction, turn-taking, discourse control
- forms and functions of voice quality in communication
- singing and its relation to phonation and breathing
- new technological or methodological development on the analysis of breathing, pausing, and the voice
- recourses and corpora