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The titles, author lists, and abstracts of papers in the ISCA Online Archive are all on the public web, so they can be searched by a general-purpose search engine such as Google. To restrict a Google search to the ISCA Online Archive, add the term site:isca-speech.org/archive to the search.
However, the full texts of most ISCA papers are password protected and thus they cannot be searched with a general-purpose search engine like Google. Google Scholar is a specialized research literature search engine, which indexes the full text of ISCA papers through an arrangement with ISCA. (On the other hand, general-purpose search engines index a lot of material on the public web which is not in the Google Scholar index or the ISCA Archive. So it's often useful to perform the same search using both Google Scholar and a general-purpose search engine.)
Besides full-text searches, Google Scholar has other useful capabilities. Google Scholar automatically extracts citations from the full text of papers, and it uses this information to provide a "Cited by" list for each paper in the Google Scholar index. This lists the papers that have cited that paper. This is very useful for finding follow-up work, related work and corrections. Google Scholar also provides an automatically generated "Related Articles" list for each paper.
It's possible to restrict Google Scholar search results to only include ISCA papers by using Google Scholar's Advanced Search feature and entering "ISCA" in the "Return articles published in" field. If "ISCA" is entered in that field, and nothing is entered in the main search field, then the search results will show what ISCA papers are the most highly cited.
Note that the delay between when a new event is added to the ISCA Archive and when it appears in the Google Scholar index will often be longer than the delay before the event is indexed by the regular Google search engine. This is because ISCA must create Google Scholar catalog data for new events before Google Scholar will index them, and also because the Google Scholar index sometimes update more slowly than the Google index.
Also note that old papers which have been scanned in from paper copies will either not have their full text indexed by Google Scholar, or will have the full text indexed using optical character recognition (OCR) technology which may introduce some errors. As of December 2007, there is no OCR for the ISCA papers which have been scanned in from paper copies, but this is expected to change in the future.