ISCA Newsroom

ISCA Fellow Program: Nominations opened until 1st of March

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:55:14 GMT

The ISCA Fellow Program recognizes and honors members who have made outstanding contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. The focus of this program is to acknowledge those distinguished by their exceptional scientific and/or technical achievements, and/or their continued significant service to the ISCA community.

To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more and have at least ten years of experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member, excluding those serving on the Fellows Selection Committee. Nominations are due by March 1.

Please click here for more details.

Mid-Career Excellence Award: Nominations opened until 1st of March

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:54:09 GMT

The Mid-Career Excellence Award recognizes and honors an individual who has shown a notable scientific and/or technical contribution in a specific area of speech communication research. The focus of this award is to recognize and honor a person’s career up to that point and expected impact in the future.

To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must be 7-15 years post Ph.D. or have had 7-15 years of work experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member. Nominations are due by March 1.

Please click here for more details.

Prof. John Hansen receives the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:19:44 GMT

He has made sustained and enduring contributions to the scientific and technical understanding of speech communications. These include advancements at the intersection of the science of speech, hearing, and language and technology in speech signal processing and machine learning for language and hearing. The award will be handed over at Interspeech 2026 in Sydney.

Congratulations!

ISCA Fellows 2025

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:33:51 GMT

The following colleagues have been elected to ISCA Fellowships. Congratulations to them!

This year the competition was strong: the Fellows Selection Committee had to choose 8 from 13.

ISCA Fellows 2025

Nancy Chen

I2R (Institute for Infocomm Research), A*STAR, Singapore

For significant contributions and technical leadership in multilingual speech processing, multimodal human-machine communication, and AI technology deployment.

Alex Cristia

Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL University, Paris

For outstanding contributions to cross-cultural studies of language acquisition and transformative practices to support inclusive and open science.

Emmanuel Dupoux

Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS-ENS- CNRS & META FAIR, Paris.

For multidisciplinary contributions to the study of language acquisition by humans and machines.

Sanjeev Khundapur

JHU Baltimore MD USA

For contributions to neural-language-models and acoustic modeling for speech recognition, and for leadership in fostering a vibrant speech research community.

Hung-yi Lee

National Taiwan University

For pioneering contributions to speech self-supervised learning (SSL) and establishing community benchmarks for evaluating speech SSL technologies.

Thomas Quatieri

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA USA

For contributions to speech signal processing, speech motor control and vocal biomarkers discovery and their applications in health

Jan van Santen

Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

For his outstanding contribution and leadership in clinical speech technologies, especially innovative applications for neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions.

Kai Yu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

For contributions to speech recognition, spoken dialogue systems and real-world deployment of spoken language technology.

ITG Conference on Speech Communication

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:50:00 GMT

ITG Conference on Speech Communication

24.-26. September 2025 | Berlin

Scope

The 16^th ITG Conference on Speech Communication will explore the theme of Speech Communication in the Age of Foundation Models. We hope that you will find this an area of pertinent debates and great innovation potential. We are, however, soliciting contributions on all areas of theory, algorithms and applications related to speech, audio, and spoken language processing, comprising especially:

Foundation Models for Speech Processing
Speech Enhancement and Separation
Source Localization and Tracking
Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events
Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition
Spoken Dialogue, Diarization, and Spoken Document Retrieval Systems
Speech Synthesis
Speech Modeling, Coding, and Transmission
LLMs & Speech Interaction
Privacy in Speech Technologies
Speech Production and Perception
Speech Quality and Intelligibility Assessment
Paralinguistics, Speech Diagnostics, and Speech‐related Biosignals
Speech in Automotive, Mobile, and Multimodal Applications
Acoustic Interfaces, Assistive Devices, and Hearing Aids
Hardware and Software Tools
Emerging Topics and Applications
Self-supervised learning (SSL) from foundation models

Paper Submission and Deadlines

Registration of Title, Author List and Abstract: May 23, 2025
Upload of full paper: May 26, 2025, 23h59 CEST
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2025
Submission of final print version: August 13, 2025

Papers are published by the VDE Verlag at IEEE Xplore, and are expected to be written in English according to the IEEE style guidelines. They must not exceed four pages plus one additional page containing only references. Authors are invited to visit tu.berlin/qu/itg-sc-2025 for details on the submission guidelines.

Technical Program Committee

S. Möller (General Chair), TU Berlin

D. Kolossa (TPC Chair) TU Berlin

T. Gerkmann (General Co-Chair), Univ. Hamburg

C. Antweiler, RWTH Aachen University

S. Doclo, Universität Oldenburg

G. Enzner, Universität Oldenburg

T. Fingscheidt, TU Braunschweig

H.‐W. Gierlich

E. Habets, Int. Audio Laboratories Erlangen

R. Häb‐Umbach, Universität Paderborn

P. Jax, RWTH Aachen University

W. Kellermann, FAU Erlangen‐Nürnberg

D. Klakow, Universität des Saarlandes

R. Koning, Advanced Bionics

G. Kubin, TU Graz

H. Löllmann, FAU Erlangen‐Nürnberg

R. Martin, Ruhr‐Universität Bochum

B. Meyer, Universität Oldenburg

H. Puder, WS Audiology

R. Schlüter, RWTH Aachen University

G. Schmidt, CAU Kiel

B. Schuller, Universität Augsburg

T. Schultz, Universität Bremen

Author Kit for Interspeech 2025 is now available

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:02:57 GMT

The Author Kit for Interspeech 2025 is now available. Please visit the For Authors section on https://interspeech2025.org for more information.

HeadsUp .. Fellows and Distinguished Lecturers

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:40:09 GMT

A reminder to start thinking about

ISCA Fellow Nominations for 2025: web page here.
ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2025-26: web page here

ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:31:14 GMT

Dear colleagues,

the ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models will be organized by Technische Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Berlin on February 20, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.

Topics which we aim to address include but are not limited to

User diversity: Which aspects of human speech and language production affect the performance of large foundation models? In which way, and for which tasks?
Language use: How are large language models able to cope with different languages, dialects, and sociolects? How do they deal with code switching?
Human adaptation: How does the use of large language models affect language comprehension, as well as speech and language production? Which alignment effects occur, and in which time spans?
Model adaptation: How do models need to be designed to better cope with speech and language diversity? How do training and finetuning affect model performance?
Inclusion: What data and technologies are necessary to better cope with diversity in large speech and language models?

We invite both experimental and positional papers addressing these and other related research questions.
The workshop will consist of a number of oral presentations and discussion panels. Accepted speakers are invited to submit a short or long paper which will be published online after the workshop.

Important dates:

Abstract submission: 13 December 2024
Notification of acceptance: 10 January 2025
Short or long paper submission: 14 February 2025

More details can be found here.

Sebastian Möller

Nominations of ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:32:09 GMT

Nominations are open for the 2025 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement. Nominations must be submitted by November 1 to ISCA Secretariat at secretariat@isca-speech.org.

2024 General Assembly

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:33:18 GMT

We cordially invite all ISCA members to the General Assembly. We are looking forward to seeing you in Kos.

2024 ISCA General Assembly

Date: Monday September 2, 2024, at 17:30 - 19:30

Venue: Panacea Amphitheater, Kipriotis Hotels & Conference Center (KICC),
Kos, Greece

ISCA Fellows 2024

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:26:29 GMT

ISCA Fellows 2024

The following colleagues have been elected ISCA fellows. Their titles will be conferred formally at Interspeech 2024. congratulations to them!

Takayuki Arai Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo

For contributions to developing models of speech production and applying them for speech science, technology, pathology and education

Kay Berkling DHBW Mosbach, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University

For her contributions to education, improving childhood learning and boosting diversity through interactive technology

Carlos Busso University of Texas at Dallas

For contributions to speech and multimodal affective signal processing and their technology applications

Sebastian Moller Technische Universität Berlin, and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Berlin

For sustained contributions to the evaluation of speech transmission, processing, and speech technology

Bhiksha Raj Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

For contributions to robust speech recognition and other areas in speech and audio processing.

Torbjorn Svendsen NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

For contributions to speech processing research and long-standing contributions to the speech community

Petra Wagner Universität Bielefeld

For contributions to multimodal prosody, conversational interaction, and speech synthesis.

Scam/phishing e-mail from "President"/Odette Scharenborg

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:22:10 GMT

Dear ISCA member,

Unfortunately, at regular time intervals, e-mails are being send to individuals within our community that seemingly come from the president (or another ISCA board member), asking for help and/or money in vague terms.

Please note, no ISCA board member will ever send emails to ask for money nor would we ask for help in vague terms. If we ask for help it will be clear what we ask of you. If you are unsure whether the email is legit, assume it is not. If we do need your help, we will reach out again.

Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about this. Please ignore these e-mails.

Best wishes,

Odette Scharenborg, ISCA President

ISCA is Moving to a New Web Portal

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:30:00 GMT

ISCA is currently moving to a new web portal: WildApricot. This includes a new website, and a new portal for membership services. The new website will already be more informative than the old one, and will later enable more active participation from our community (SIGs, etc.), as we want to make it more interactive and target-oriented.

For the time being, parts of our services will still need to be accessed through portals on our old system (linked from the new website), including the paper archive, and applications for workshops and grants. We are working on moving these functionalities to the new platform as well.

Please explore the new website and get an impression of ISCA activities and services. Become involved in shaping the new system for the benefit of our community.

Submission portal open for Interspeech 2024

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:04:07 GMT

The submission portal for Interspeech 2024, which will take place in Kos, Greece, is now open. The deadline for registering a paper is 2nd of March, for finalising the paper 10th of March. More details on https://interspeech2024.org/.

Call for Interspeech Reviewers

(Past member) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:54:27 GMT

In preparation for Interspeech 2024, we are currently searching for reviewers to evaluate submitted manuscripts.

If you are not already a reviewer for ISCA conferences, we encourage you to sign up through the ISCA Reviewer Portal.

Click here to see the criteria for eligibility as a reviewer and access to the portal.

Please use the same email address as your CMT account. If you do not have a CMT account, you will need to create one, as reviewing will take place fully within CMT.

To help conference organisers match the papers allocated to you, please also register to the Toronto Paper Matching System using the same email address as in CMT. This should result in you being assigned papers that better match your interests and expertise.

ISCA Medals and Fellows Nominations 2024

(Past member) — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:16:05 GMT

Nominations are open for the following ISCA Awards:

The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement recognizes and honors an individual each year who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. Any ISCA member can make a nomination. All nominations for ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement should be submitted to the ISCA Secretary at secretariat@isca-speech.org by 5 January 2024 using the nomination form. The ISCA Board will select the winner by 1 February and announce the winner in the March 2024 ISCApad. Unsuccessful candidates from previous year(s) must be re-nominated to qualify for candidacy.

The ISCA Service Medal recognizes an ISCA member who has provided extraordinary service to ISCA and/or the Speech Communication community. Any ISCA Board or Advisory Council member can make a nomination. All nominations for an ISCA Service Medal should be submitted to the ISCA Secretary at secretariat@isca-speech.org by 5 January 2024 using the nomination form. Unsuccessful candidates from previous year(s) must be re-nominated to qualify for candidacy.

The ISCA Fellows Program recognises and honours outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more with a minimum of ten years experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member except for those on the Felows Selection Committee.. Fellows may be recognised by their outstanding scientific and/or technical contributions and/or continued significant service to ISCA. The supporting case for the candidate's nomination should include up to 3 major contributions which have had impact on the speech community and/or society in general. A nomination should be supported by 3 references from senior scientists/technologists in the Speech Communication community, for instance ISCA Fellows and ISCA Board members. Current ISCA Board members are not eligible for nomination. Members of the Fellows Selection Committee may not nominate candidates or provide references. All nominations for ISCA Fellow should be sent to fellows_nomination AT isca-speech.org by 10 February 2024 using the nomination form. Those who plan to nominate are strongly advised to send brief information on candidates (candidate's name and affiliation) to the above email address before January 10 with your name and contact email address.

More information can be found on the ISCA Honors webpage.

Update of Interspeech 2024

(Past member) — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:15:29 GMT

Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean – Greece. Details will be provided on the conference website.

We hope that the Interspeech Conference will be hosted in Jerusalem in the future.

Nominations Open for ISCA Distinguished Lecturers 2024

(Past member) — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:13:25 GMT

We are now open for nominations for ISCA’s Distinguished Lecturers scheme for the period 2024-25.

This outreach scheme supports leading researchers in Speech Communication to deliver lecture tours in regions where our field is under-represented.
Distinguished Lecturers normally serve for 2 years, during which time they typically undertake 3 lecture tours.
Details of the DL scheme, including the nomination form, are available on the ISCA Distinguished Lecturers website. Each nomination should include the following information:
a short biography of the candidate
a selected summary of publication,
a personal website, or a resume that provides equivalent information,
topics/titles of up to three possible lectures that the nominee could give.
Please note that the nominator must ensure the candidate is willing to serve if elected. Nominations from previous years will be only considered if they have been updated. Self-nominations are permitted, but must include a letter of support from an ISCA Fellow or Board Member.
Nominations should be sent to dl_nominations@isca-speech.org before 31 January 2024