[10-January-2012] ISCA has completed the review of bids to host Interspeech 2015. We are glad to announce that Interspeech 2015 will be held in Dresden. Congratulations to the German team!
Conference Chair: Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin
[31-December-2011] ISCA wishes all members a Happy New Year!
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[25-December-2011] ISCA is pleased to announce its new membership portal today. The new portal provides an one-stop online service for membership application, renewal, updating of member profile, retrieval of password, and search of membership database with enhanced privacy and resume posting features. Please login to the new portal today to update your profile or renew your membership. Wish all ISCA members a happy holiday season! |
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[07-November-2011] ISCA today announces that ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2012 is awarded to Professor Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, for pioneering and seminal contributions to automatic speech and speaker recognition, including innovations in adaptive learning, discriminative training and utterance verification.
[07-November-2011] ISCA's Distinguished Lecturers (DL) travel to different parts of the world to give lectures to help promote research activities on speech science and technologies. For details, please visit the ISCA DL Section.
ISCA DL Program now calls for nominations of 2012-2013 Distinguished Lecturers. A Distinguished Lecturers Committee selects the DLs. The chair of the Committee for 2010-2013 is Professor Julia Hirschberg. Nominations should be sent to dl_nominations [at] isca-speech.org. Nominations for 2012-2013 nomination should be received before January 15, 2012.
[04-November-2011] ISCA's Fellow Program recognizes and honors outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. 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. For details, please visit the Fellows Section.
Please note that the deadline for ISCA Fellow nominations for 2012 has been brought forward to February 10, 2012. Nominators are strongly advised to contact Email: fellow_nomination [at] isca-speech.org by January 10, 2012 to register the interests of nominating somone.
[12-September-2011] INTERSPEECH is the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). This conference has a long history, as it brings together two previous series of biennial international conferences: EUROSPEECH, the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, and ICSLP, the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.
EUROSPEECH conferences were organized by ESCA (European Speech Communication Association). Previous EUROSPEECH conferences were held in 1989 in Paris (France); 1991 in Genoa (Italy); 1993 in Berlin (Germany); 1995 in Madrid (Spain); 1997 in Rhodes (Greece); and 1999 in Budapest (Hungary). ICSLP conferences were coordinated by the Permanent Council for the Organization of International Conferences on Spoken Language Processing (PC-ICSLP). They were held in 1990 in Kobe (Japan); in 1992 in Banff (Canada); 1994 in Yokohama (Japan); 1996 in Philadelphia (USA); and 1998 in Sydney (Australia).
In 1999, as a result of the joint effort between ESCA and PC-ICSLP, ISCA was created and the two series of conferences merged under the joint label INTERSPEECH. The first INTERSPEECH event was ICSLP 2000, which took place in Beijing (China), already co-sponsored by ISCA. It was succeeded by EUROSPEECH 2001 in Aalborg (Denmark); ICSLP 2002 in Denver (USA); EUROSPEECH 2003 in Geneva (Switzerland); ICSLP 2004 in Jeju (Korea), EUROSPEECH 2005 in Lisbon (Portugal) and ICSLP 2006 in Pittsburgh (USA). Since 2007 the former conference labels, preserved for historic reasons during these first years, are no longer in use. The INTERSPEECH conference 2007 was held in Antwerp (Belgium), 2008 in Brisbane (Australia), 2009 in Brighton (UK), 2011 in Makuhari (Japan), and 2011 in Florence (Italy). The next INTERSPEECH conferences will be held in 2012 in Portland (USA), 2013 in Lyon (France) and 2014 in Singapore.
The selection of the conference venue will follow the original pattern of being held in Europe in odd years and outside Europe in even years. Although there is no formal requirement for this alternation, ISCA attempts to not have the conference in the same continent in two consecutive years.
INTERSPEECH conferences include papers on all scientific and technological aspects of speech and language. More than 1.000 participants from all over the world attend the conference and more than 700 papers are presented in oral and poster sessions. Several satellite workshops and a Scientific and Industrial Exhibition complement the conferences' content. The technical program typically includes special sessions, which are often targeted at interdisciplinary topics, or intend to present the results of joint evaluation campaigns over common corpora, and are frequently enriched with discussions and panels. Special sessions are often organized by SIGs, the ISCA Special Interest Groups.
INTERSPEECH papers are indexed in ISI, Engineering Index, Scopus, and Google Scholar. It is rated as Rank A conference by the Computing and Research Education Association of Australasia (CORE).
ISCA calls for bids to organize an INTERSPEECH conference four years before the event. The bids presented by well established and world recognized teams are presented to the ISCA Board, which makes the selection based on the feedback from the ISCA Advisory Council, a body of approximately twenty-five senior speech communication researchers.
The call for bids to organize INTERSPEECH 2015 is now open. The deadline for the bid is November 1 2011. You will find guidelines and information on the ISCA website (http://www.isca-speech.org -> Conferences)
If you are interested in organizing an INTERSPEECH conference, please contact the ISCA Future Conference Coordinator Tanja Schultz (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
[1-September-2011] ISCA conducted a membership survey in 2010 to seek feedbacks about Interspeech conferences and announced the survey summary during Interspeech 2011 at Florence, Italy. Please click here to download the information.
Dear ISCA members,
On behalf of the ISCA Board, I would like to encourage you to attend the ISCA General Assembly which will take place in Florence, Italy in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2011. The Assembly will begin at 18.00 (6.00 pm) on Monday, August 29 and will be held in the Auditorium – Palazzo dei Congressi. The General Assembly is open to all members of ISCA and provides an excellent opportunity for you to actively participate in the meeting and propose suggestions to help make our association even better.
On behalf of the ISCA Board, I am looking forward to seeing you in Florence and to your participation in the ISCA General Assembly.
Best regards,
David House
ISCA Secretary
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ISCA General Assembly 2011
Agenda of the 2011 ISCA General Assembly to be held on Monday, 29
August 2011, at 18.00 (6.00 pm), Auditorium – Palazzo dei
Congressi, Florence, Italy.
1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2010 General Assembly (Makuhari)
2. President’s report
3. Treasurer’s report
4. Approval of the reports
5. Announcement of changes to the ISCA Board
6. ISCA goals for 2011-2012
7. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members
8. Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly
9. Any other business
10. Handover to the New President
| [1-August-2011] Dear ISCA Members, Welcome to the 12th Interspeech! Interspeech 2011 has received a record number of 1435 submissions. I only hope that the number of participants also breaks another record, so that we can gather in the wonderful city of Florence the largest spoken language community ever, to enjoy the excellent technical and social program that the organizing team has prepared for us. I'm looking forward to meeting you all in Florence!
-Isabel Trancoso |
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[25-July-2011] ISCA announces that it starts a new service, Video Archive, that provides video streaming (video and slides) for lectures and presentations in related seminars and conferences, which can be found at the Archive section of ISCA Web. The content is hosted by University of Crete, Greece, and SuperLectures.com, as a temporary solution. For posting of Video Archive, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
[1-June-2011] The election for five ISCA Board Members is now complete. The results are as follows. 496 ballots were received during the voting period (30 April – 30 May 2011) with the following five candidates elected as ISCA Board members for a period of four years from 1 September 2011 (members are listed alphabetically):
ALAN W BLACK (USA)
HELEN MENG (HONG KONG)
BERND MÖBIUS (GERMANY)
SATOSHI NAKAMURA (JAPAN)
TANJA SCHULTZ (GERMANY)
On behalf of the ISCA Board, I would like to thank all of you who took part in the election. We are seeing an increased participation in the Board election which is very encouraging. Participation has increased from 169 ballots in 2007 to 338 in 2009 to 496 today.
David House
ISCA Secretary
[1-March-2011] ISCA calls for nomination of Board Election 2011. According to the ISCA by-laws, elections to the Board may take place in April or May every two years. Nominations of candidates for the Board member elections can be made by the Board and by each ISCA member. The Board would therefore like to invite nominations from the ISCA membership. As of this year, the ISCA statutes permit a maximum of three Board members from any single country. As there are currently no more than two Board members from any single country, there is no restriction on nominations pertaining to country.
Nominations to the Board are to be made with the support of three members of ISCA and with agreement from the candidate in either written or electronic form. Members who are elected to the Board will be expected to take up one of the areas of responsibility, to commit time to furthering the work of ISCA in their area, to attend the two-day Board meeting that takes place in conjunction with the annual INTERSPEECH conference and to participate in additional virtual meetings during the year (teleconferences).
The Board will accept nominations either from proposers or self-nominations, as long as indication of support is provided.
Please send your nomination(s) to the ISCA Secretariat This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. BY 20 March 2011 (Sunday) with the following information:
Full Name and Title:
Position and Institution:
Research area:
Indication of willingness to serve if elected:
E-mail:
URL (where CV may be found):
Short biography (one paragraph):
Short statement (one paragraph, describing the work they would intend to do on the Board):
Names and emails of three proposers (ISCA members):
[7-February-2011]The INTERSPEECH 2011 Technical Program Committee is pleased to announce the opening of the online paper submission system.
The deadline for submitting papers is 31 March 2011. This deadline will not be extended. Inquiries regarding paper submissions should be directed via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
[2-February-2011] The DL's committee, chaired by Professor Julia Hirschberg, and the ISCA Board, are pleased to announce the selection of the new distinguished lecturers for 2011-2012:
Prof. Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Prof. John Hansen, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas TX
If you want to host a DL in your region, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
[17-January-2011] ISCA's Fellow Program recognizes and honors outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. 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. For details, please visit the Fellows Section. Nomination is due on 1 Apr 2011.
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[25-December-2010] ISCA has completed the review of bids to host Interspeech 2014. It is glad to announce that Interspeech 2014 will be held in Singapore, the Garden City, on 14-18 September 2014. Conference Chair: Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research. |
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[4-December-2010] ISCA's new Advisory Council will assume the appointment with effect from 1 January 2011. ISCA would like to thank the following members who have completed their term, Rolf Carlson, Paul Dalsgaard, Mazin Gilbert, Wolfgang Hess, Lori Lamel, Hermann Ney, Louis C.W. Pols and Victor Zue, and congratulate the following new members, Anne Cutler, Bjorn Granström, John H. L. Hansen, Chin Hui Lee, Satoshi Nakamura, Marc Swerts, Mari Ostendorf, Steve Renals, Richard Stern, Chiu-yu Tseng, Jacqueline Vaissiere, and B. Yegnanarayana.
[2-December-2010] ISCA will be upgrading the membership portal from 10-12 December 2010. Please do not renew your membership during this period of time and any updates on the membership data will not be transferred to the new portal.
[1-October-2010] ISCA started its Distinguished Lecturers (DL) Program in 2006 to send Distinguished Lecturers to travel to different parts of the world to give lectures to help promote research activities on speech science and technologies. All ISCA members are invited to nominate candidates to the DL committee for the term 2010-2011. Nominations should be submitted to the committee chair, Professor Julia Hirschberg at (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 15 November 2010. Please visit here for details.
[15-September-2010] ISCA is seeking for proposals to organize the international conference event "INTERSPEECH" for the year 2014. The deadline for proposals is 1 November 2010. ISCA intends to follow a traditional schedule of organizing INTERSPEECH in Europe for odd years and other continents for even years and therefore has a preference for proposals to host INTERSPEECH 2014 outside Europe. Groups who are interested in hosting INTERSPEECH 2014 are kindly asked to contact Tanja Schultz ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) Proposals are expected to be submitted via email to Tanja Schultz by midnight, 1st November 2010
[10-September-2010] The ISCA Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is proud to announce that an update of our website is now online with a new design and extended functionality. As a central part, we installed a blog that allows us to inform you directly about news and events from ISCA-SAC and topics in the field of speech, speech communication and speech technology.
Check it out at http://www.isca-students.org ! You are cordially invited to contribute.
[16-August-2010] ISCApad is ISCA's monthly newsletter since 1998. It goes online from August 2010, featuring a seamless integration with ISCA Web, a web-based content management system, and a new editorial layout and archiving facility for ease of access.
Visit http://www.isca-speech.org/iscapad to take a look at the new facelift of ISCApad!
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[13-July-2010] ISCA has completed the review of bids to host Interspeech 2013. It is glad to announce that Interspeech 2013 will be held in Lyon, France on 25-29 August 2013. Conference Chair: Frédéric BIMBOT |
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[6-July-2010] 2 Distinguished Lecturers have been selected for 2010-2011:
(1) Dr. Li Deng, Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
(2) Professor Thierry DUTOIT, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
Click here for more information.
[10-May-2010] INTERSPEECH 2009 is added into the ONLINE ARCHIVE.
[10-Apr-2010] ISCA's Fellow Program recognizes and honors outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. 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. For details, please visit the Fellow Section. Nomination is due on 15 May 2010.
[31-Dec-2009] ISCA welcomes 2010 and wishes all members a fruitful year ahead.
[24-Dec-2009] ISCA launches new website on 25 December 2009 to better serve its members!
[01-Dec-2009] ISCA is seeking for proposals to organize the international conference event "INTERSPEECH" for the year 2013. The deadline for proposals is Monday, 30 November 2009. ISCA intends to follow a traditional schedule of organizing INTERSPEECH in Europe for odd years and other continents for even years and therefore has a preference for proposals to host INTERSPEECH 2013 in Europe. Groups who are interested in hosting INTERSPEECH 2013 are kindly asked to contact Tanja Schultz (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) via email as soon as possible. Proposals are expected to be submitted via email to Tanja Schultz by midnight, 30 November 2009.
INTERSPEECH 2009[10-Sep-2009] INTERSPEECH 2009 - the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association was held on 6-10 September 2009 at Brighton, UK. ISCA Board Election 2009 completed[8-Jun-2009] The following nine candidates were elected as ISCA Board members for a period of four years from September 2009:
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 The Winning Poster of ISCA 10th Anniversary Design Contest - by Jamal Issawi |