(Toronto, July 30, 2025) JMIR Publications invites submissions to a new theme issue titled “ Voice Phenotyping and Vocal Biomarkers ” in its open access journal JMIR Biomedical Engineering . The premier, peer-reviewed journal is indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, DOAJ, Sherpa/Romeo, and EBSCO/EBSCO Essentials.
This Call for Papers is seeking high-quality submissions for a new e-collection on a leading-edge field that uses voice and speech analysis to advance the detection, monitoring, and treatment of health conditions.
This e-collection focuses on acoustic and voice analysis techniques, voice or vocal phenotyping, and vocal biomarkers in health and medicine. Human speech and voice signals may be an underused source of data that offers clinically meaningful insights into an individual’s health and well-being. Recent advances in signal processing and computational tools in this field offer a pathway toward developing, evaluating, and even integrating vocal biomarkers into clinical or community settings.
The journal invites submissions that explore the potential of voice and speech analysis in diverse medical applications. Submissions to this Call for Papers may explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Development and validation of novel algorithms, computational methods, or devices to support the field of voice analysis in health and medicine
Experiments and applications for disease diagnosis, surveillance, or monitoring
Creation, curation, and sharing of voice datasets, ontologies, or taxonomies for medical research
Applications of computational tools for voice analysis in health and medicine
Studies on the patient experience of using ambient or ubiquitous voice technologies in their diagnosis or care management
Voice biomarkers in pediatric development
Early detection and monitoring of the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer and Parkinson disease
Screening and monitoring of psychiatric conditions, such as depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and sleep disorders; pain conditions; or fatigue syndromes
Investigations into the physiological, anatomical, and neurological mechanisms that link voice production to health and disease
All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review, and accepted articles will be published as part of the “ Voice Phenotyping and Vocal Biomarkers ” e-collection.
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