CAN Quarterly Newsletter – Final Call: VCCA2026
This newsletter brings you last-minute reminders for VCCA2026, exclusive workshops, and footage of our successful hybrid CAN-SIG members meeting in Seoul. Plus, don’t miss the JOCA survey—your input will shape the future of publishing!
Training Clinician Communication Skills Using Generative AI-Driven Virtual Patients
A generative AI platform that lets clinicians interact with lifelike virtual patients to build communication skills through realistic, real-time conversations.
CAN Quarterly Newsletter – Spring 2026: Workshops & CAN-SIG Member Meeting
We’re thrilled to share the latest updates from the Computational Audiology Network (CAN), including workshops, our hybrid CAN-SIG members meeting online and in Seoul at WCA, and a link to our first CAN Webinar. This newsletter highlights an urgent deadline (VCCA2026 abstracts due May 3), exclusive workshops (WCA Seoul and VCCA pre-conference), and our hybrid CAN-SIG member meeting in Seoul—plus a recap of our first CAN Seminar!
CAN Quarterly Newsletter – March 2026: New Seminars, VCCA2026 Updates, and ARO2026 Highlights
We’re thrilled to share the latest updates from the Computational Audiology Network (CAN), including the launch of our new virtual seminar series, key updates on VCCA2026, and a recap of our impactful session at ARO2026.
Quarterly update 20: Shaping the Future of Hearing Sciences: Your Voice and Choices Matter!
We’re excited to share the latest updates in this newsletter, including VCCA 2026 abstract submission and registration details, as well as CAN’s activities at WCA 2026.
VCCA2025 Conference Report
VCCA2025 Experiences Author list: Nasrin Akter, Dennis Barbour, Andrew Bellavia, Öğütnaz Çoban, Caitlin Frisby, Mériem Jaïdane, Akash Yallamati, Jan-Willem Wasmann, Sil van Zoest. Below you find a collection of perspectives…
Recap of VCCA2025
This sixth edition of VCCA welcomed 946 registered participants from 67 countries and 342 cities, turning our virtual Miami Beach into a truly global meeting place.
Coffee‑for‑a‑Cause 30‑Minute Breakout
During this 30‑minute coffee break, each breakout room nominates one hearing-health charity or project. CAN pledges USD 25 per breakout room to the nominated causes. That means by simply joining this informal chat session, you’ll donate USD 3 to a good cause! Doing good has never been so easy ;-)
Quarterly update 20
VCCA2025 registration is now open, our final keynote has been announced, we’re calling for survey participants and future conference organizers, and a new community-driven preprint on data standards is out now.
How hard is it to read a chatbot response about hearing health
This study examines whether incorporating Wikipedia-derived audiology excerpts alters the textual complexity of AI-generated responses in English and Brazilian Portuguese, evaluated with standard readability indices.
VCCA2025 update
In this newsletter, we share more VCCA 2025 developments. Good news—the abstract submission deadline has been extended to May 1st! In addition, please fill out this latest survey on the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) among Audio-Speech Professionals regarding Artificial Intelligence! Please note that the Audiology Pre-Conference Symposium at VCCA2025 will now take place on Saturday, June 21, 2025.
Survey on the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) among Audio-Speech Professionals regarding AI
We are reaching out to invite you to participate in an important survey on the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) among Audio-Speech Professionals regarding Artificial Intelligence.
CAN Spring Update
In this newsletter, we share further VCCA2025 developments. Please get your VCCA2025 abstracts ready before April 25. Next, consider also submitting to ISAAR 2025, and please fill out this latest survey comparing responses of audiologists to those of ChatGPT-4 and Gemini. Lastly, enjoy our podcast recommendations.
Quarterly update 19: VCCA2025 updates
In this newsletter, we share the latest VCCA2025 developments. We’re thrilled to introduce a pre-VCCA symposium in Spanish, announce that the VCCA2025 call for abstracts is now open, and include a personal note reflecting on my PhD journey.
Quarterly update 17: CAN at WCA
We are thrilled to share the success of our World Congress of Audiology (WCA) 2024 experience in Paris! This year marked our first in-person CAN gathering and a very well-received Special Session on Computational Audiology.
Quarterly update 16
In this newsletter, we look forward to the WCA2024 and back at IHCON2024
Quarterly update 15
In this newsletter, we look back at the VCCA2024 and share CAN updates.
Interested in Becoming a (better) Peer Reviewer?
A presentation with breakout rooms to discuss the peer review process for manuscripts.
Simulation of unilateral and bilateral cochlear implant for speech recognition in spatialized noise
Effect of unilateral and bilateral cochlear implants on speech recognition performance in spatialized noise can be simulated using a channel vocoder with dense tonal carriers.
Quarterly update 14
In this newsletter, we share CAN updates about membership and the latest highlights you can expect at VCCA2024.
Around the World of Computational Audiology (with)in 80 Slides.
Did you know that when Phileas Fogg traveled by train from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, he passed very close (<20 miles) to Lake Tahoe?
Celebrating World Hearing Day & Welcoming New Milestones
Today, on World Hearing Day, we embrace the global theme of "Changing mindsets: Let's make ear and hearing care a reality for all." We're also excited to share our recent acceptance into the World Hearing Forum (WHF) and our partnership advancements with the International Society of Audiology (ISA). We established the CAN Special Interest Group which you can join as member!
Quarterly update 13
In this newsletter, we proudly announce the formal establishment of the Computational Audiology Network (CAN)! We share upcoming activities and updates including CAN at the AAS and WCA conferences, Wiki4Hearing and updates about the upcoming Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology, VCCA2024.
Quarterly update Q11
In this edition, we are introducing the VCCA2024 organizers, sharing our VCCA2024 survey, providing access to the VCCA2023 public recordings and sharing the VCCA2023 conference report. Computational Audiology is now present on Wikipedia in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Please consider joining the ICASSP Machine Learning Challenge to improve music for those with a hearing loss, and don’t forget the final manuscript call for Trends in Digital Hearing Health and Computational Audiology.
VCCA2023 Conference Report
The VCCA 2023 organising committee ACED the conference this year! Action-packed, Comprehensive, Efficient and Diverse.
Embedding the patient voice in artificial intelligence for hearing care: the role of patient-reported outcomes
Integration of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are a critical to the humanisation of AI in hearing healthcare.
Recap of VCCA2023
Dear attendees, We are incredibly grateful for your participation in the Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology 2023 (VCCA2023). We look back at a memorable event, due in large part to…
Introduction to Computational Audiology: Past, Present, and Future Applications
A journey around the world of AI and Audiology within 80 slides!
GameHear: gamification and real-time motion tracking for conditioned play audiometry
Computer vision based conditional play audiometry
Receiver-in-ear hearing aid comparison on music perception for hearing-impaired listeners
Receiver-in-ear hearing aid comparison on music perception for hearing-impaired listeners
Method for continuous evaluation of hearing aid user key situations in the field
Method for continuous reporting on hearing aid user key situations using ecological momentary assessment and data logging
Using auditory texture statistics for domain-neutral removal of background sounds
Noise suppression method exploiting the stationarity of sound textures
Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health
Wikidata is a source of structured reference information in audiology
Wikiversity and e-Audiology: developing a MOOC in Audiology
Audiology education and hearing health promotion using Wikiversity
Comparing Digits-in-Noise Test Implementations on Various Platforms with Normal Hearing Individuals
Comparing Digits-in-Noise Test implementations between onsite and online platforms with NH listeners show comparable results
MindAffect’s EEG based Tone Audiometry Diagnostic System
Hearing thresholds obtained with EEG are compared to the PTA-results show that a fast and objective hearing test is feasible
Associates of Talker Size in Cochlear Implant Stimulation
Characterizing the representation of vocal tract length differences in the output signal of cochlear implants.
End-to-end deep denoising for cochlear implants
We present a deep neural network that substitutes the cochlear implant sound coding strategy and performs speech denoising.
