Dr. Vinoo Alluri gave a keynote talk on My Music and I: The interplay between music and individual differences at Speech, Music, and Mind with Audio Satellite Workshop, Interspeech 2021 on 27 August at Brno University of Technology. 

Dr. Vinoo Alluri and her students J Shriram and S Paruchuri  presented a paper on How Much Do Lyrics Matter? Analysing Lyrical Simplicity Preferences for Individuals At Risk of Depression. 

The workshop focused on detecting and influencing mental states, with an emphasis on multi-modal approaches with diverse applications across culture, languages and music.

 More details at: https://speech.fit.vutbr.cz/events/SMM21/index.html