10th CHRISTIAN BENOIT AWARD

The Christian Benoît Award is given biannually to a promising young scientist in the domain of SPEECH COMMUNICATION to further their career in the field. We are pleased to announce the winner of the 10th Christian Benoît Award is Sankar Mukherjee. They will be carrying out a research project on "Neuro-behavioral Aware Conversational Agent".

The jury for the Award were the following:

1. Gérard Bailly, chair
2. Torbjørn Karl Svendsen, chair of ISCA awards
3. Phil Green, ISCA representative
4. Lori Lamel, ISCA representative
5. Véronique Delvaux, AFCP representative
6. Martine Adda-Decker, AFCP representative
7. Marcin Włodarczak, winner of the 9th Christian Benoît award
8. Mathilde Fort, winner of the 8th Christian Benoît award
9. Samer Al Moubayed, winner of the 7th Christian Benoît award

More information about the award can be found here.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS

We are pleased to announce the Distinguished Lecturers for 2019-2020:

1. Professor Laurent Besacier, Speech Technologies for Under Resourced Languages, University Grenoble Alpes, France
2. Professor Mark Gales, Spoken Language Processing, Cambridge University, UK

The lecturers are available for lecture tours upon request from host institutions. For possible talk topics and information on the DL programme look at the ISCA Distinguished Lecturers webpage.

INTERSPEECH 2018 Keynote and Perspective Talks

Videos of the Keynote and Perspective Talks and Opening and Closing Ceremonies from INTERSPEECH 2018 are now available online: 

https://www.superlectures.com/interspeech2018/

More videos of keynote talks from conferences and workshops, and video lectures on speech communication can be found in the ISCA Video Archive.