The Speech Communication Best Paper Award is presented at Interspeech during even-numbered years. The recipient is selected from papers published within the previous five years by a joint committee of Speech Communication editorial board members and ISCA board members. To ensure a definitive selection, the committee always maintains an odd number of voting members.

The Editor-in-Chief first prepares a suggested shortlist based on citation impact as well as an assessment of the papers’ long-term merits. The papers are assessed by an ad hoc committee with rotating membership each even year, composed of editorial and ISCA board members.

The Speech Communication Best Paper Award Committee:

Coordinators:

Sharon Gannot & Helena Moniz

Committee members: 

• Hung-yi Lee, National Taiwan University
  
• Jennifer Williams, University of Southampton
  
• Jianhua Tao, Tsinghua University
  
• Maeva Garnier, GIPSA Laboratory
  
• Mike Johnson, University of Kentucky
  
• Shinji Watanabe, Carnegie Mellon University
  
• Sriram Ganapathy, Indian Institute of Science

Previous awards:

2026

Interspeech Sydney, Australia (2021-2025)

• Best paper: "The Hearing-Aid Speech Perception Index (HASPI) Version 2," James M. Kates & Kathryn H. Arehart, Speech Communication, Vol. 131, July 2021, pp. 35–46.
  
• Best Overview Paper: "Emotional voice conversion: Theory, databases and ESD," Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu, & Haizhou Li, Speech Communication, Vol. 137, February 2022, pp. 1–18.

2024 

Interspeech Kos, Speech Communication (2019-2023):

• "CN-Celeb: Multi-genre speaker recognition", Lantian Li, Ruiqi Liu, Jiawen Kang, Yue Fan, Hao Cui, Yunqi Cai, Ravichander Vipperla, Thomas Fang Zheng, Dong Wang, Speech Communication, Volume 137, Pages 77-91, February 2022.

2022 

Interspeech Incheon, Speech Communication (2017-2021):

• "The sound of confidence and doubt", Xiaoming Jiang and Marc D.Pell, Volume 88, Pages 106-126, 2017.

2020 

Interspeech Shangai, Speech Communication (2015-2019):

• "Improved mispronunciation detection with deep neural network trained acoustic models and transfer learning based logistic regression classifiers", Wenping Hu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, and Yong Wang. Vol 67, pp. 154-166, March 2015.

2018 

Interspeech Hyderabad, Speech Communication (2013-2017):

• "Evaluating the intelligibility benefit of speech modifications in know noise condition”, Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Yannis Stylianou, Bastian Sauert, and Yan Tang, Speech Communication Vol 55, Issue 4, Pages 572-585, May 2013.

2016 

Interspeech San Francisco, Speech Communication (2013-2015):

• "Multitaper MFCC and PLP features for speaker verification using i-vectors.", Alam M.J., Kinnunen T., Kenny P., Ouellet P., O'Shaughnessy D.,  Speech Communication, vol 55, issue 2, pages 237-251, 2013

2014 

Interspeech Singapore, Speech Communication (2011-2013):

• "Benefits and challenges of real-time uncertainty detection and adaptation in a spoken dialogue computer tutor", Forbes-Riley, K. and Litman, D.,  Speech Communication, vol 53, issue 9, pages 1115-1136, 2011

2013 

Interspeech Lyon, Speech Communication (2008-2012), joint ISCA/EURASIP award:

• "Statistical mapping between articulatory movements and acoustic spectrum using a Gaussian mixture model", Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda, Speech Communication, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2008, Pages 215-227.

2012 

Interspeech Portland, Speech Communication (2009-2011), joint ISCA/EURASIP award:

• "PEAKS – A system for the automatic evaluation of voice and speech disorders", Maier A., Haderlein T., Eysholdt U., Rosanowski F., Batliner A., Schuster M., Nöth E, Speech Communication, Volume 51, Issue 5, May 2009, Pages 425-437.
  

2011 

Interspeech Florence, Speech Communication (2006-2010), joint ISCA/EURASIP award:

• "Data Driven Emotion Conversion in Spoken English", Zeynep Inanoglu and Steve Young, Volume 51, 2009, pp. 268-283.

2010 

Interspeech Makuhari, Speech Communication (2007-2009):

• "Joint-sequence models for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion", Maximilian Bisani, Hermann Ney. Volume 50, Issue 5, May 2008, pp. 434-451.

2008

Interspeech Brisbane, Speech Communication (2005-2007):

• "Decoding speech in the presence of other sources", J.P. Barker, M.P. Cooke and D.P.W. Ellis, Volume 45, issue 1, January 2005, Pages 5-25.

2006 

Interspeech Pittsburgh, Speech Communication (2003-2005):

• "Statistical language model adaptation: review and perspectives", Jerome Bellegarda, Volume 42, issue 1, January 2004, Pages 83-108.