We're looking for a mid-career or senior researcher with solid software engineering skills to take the lead on the tools that make Interspeech proceedings possible. If you enjoy building good software and want to shape how our community's research gets published, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll do

• Build and lead a small team of helpers to maintain and develop the tool suite
• Train and coordinate each year's Interspeech publication team in using the tools
• Work with the ISCA Scientific Coordinator to keep the data structure consistent and extend it across Interspeech editions
• Work with the ISCA Archivist so the ISCA Archive runs on the ISCA library, which will streamline the whole publication process

Why it matters

Since 2023, ISCA has handled the Interspeech publication process itself. That means reconciling CMT metadata with the submitted PDFs, gathering material for the abstract book, and preparing the proceedings for the ISCA Archive. To make this manageable, we've built a tool suite with three parts:

• ISCA library: the shared software foundation
• Interspeech tools: generate the abstract book, the archive package, and other conference outputs
• Validation UI: lets the publication team fix metadata quickly

The toolkit works. Now it needs someone to keep it working in the long term and help it grow.

Interested? Contact the ISCA Technical Committee tc@isca-speech.org

Speech Communication is a joint journal publication between ISCA and the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). There are two best paper awards offered by Speech Communication to highlight excellent contributions, including best paper and best overview paper. We are pleased to announce this year's winners:

Best paper award:
James M. Kates, Kathryn H. Arehart, "The Hearing-Aid Speech Perception Index (HASPI) Version 2," Speech Communication, Volume 131, July 2021, Pages 35-46
Please click here to access the paper

Best overview paper award:
Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu, Haizhou Li, "Emotional voice conversion: Theory, databases and ESD," Speech Communication, Volume 137, February 2022, Pages 1-18
Please click here to access the paper

Congratulations to both sets of authors!

We will soon be voting for six (6) new members to the ISCA board. The term for each board member is four years. The ISCA board members are selected through voting by the ISCA membership. The vote will take place in spring of 2027. Please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Additional details will follow in the coming months.

For more information, please visit the following links:

• Election information: here
• Board information: here

Congrats to this year's ISCA Fellows

Tatsuya Kawahara 
Citation: For contributions to human-to-human speech recognition and dialogue models

Daniel Povey
Citation:  For contributions to speech recognition algorithms, data and software

Jan Cernocky
Citation: For sustained effective leadership and for contributions to neural net based speech processing.

Jinyu Li
Citation: For the contributions of deep-learning based speech technology innovation, adoption, and commercialization.

Rita Singh
Citation: For pioneering advancements in human voice profiling and computational voice forensics

Sharon Gannot
Citation: For contributions to multi-microphone speech processing using acoustic modelling and machine learning

Odette Scharenborg
Citation: For sustained contributions to inclusive speech technology, and for lasting impact on diversity in speech communication and technology

Mike Seltzer
Citation: For pioneering contributions to environmental robustness of speech recognition systems and sustained leadership of production speech solutions in industry

The ISCA Mid-Career Excellence Award recognizes and honors an individual who has shown a notable contribution in a specific area of speech communication research. Congratulations to our inaugural winners of the ISCA Mid-Career Award 2026: 

• Xie Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  For advancing speech foundation models and leading impactful open-source contributions to the speech research community.
  
  
• Rohan Kumar Das,  Fortemedia Singapore (industry)
  For contributions to speaker recognition, deepfake detection, and benchmark challenge leadership. 
  
  
• Sam Kirkham, Lancaster University
  For advancing understanding of speech dynamics through integration of articulatory imaging, computational modelling, and dynamical systems theory.

The ISCA Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Program is one of ISCA’s most prestigious honors, recognizing outstanding scientists who have made significant contributions to speech communication science and technology and who are willing to share their knowledge with the world. Congratulations to our 2026 ISCA Distinguished Lecturers:

Joseph Keshet, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Kong Aik Lee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Please note that starting with the 2026 cohort, the ISCA Distinguished Lecturer Program will transition to an online format. More information will be announced.

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.

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.

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!

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.