Nomination and Selection Process

To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more with a minimum of ten years of experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member (see Nomination Form). 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.

Fellows are selected by a Fellow Selection Committee of nine members who each serve a three-year term. Members of the Committee will be chosen from ISCA Fellows by the ISCA Board. Fellow Selection Committee members will avoid nominating or writing references for Fellow candidates.

The total number of Fellows selected in any one year will not exceed one-third percent of the total ISCA membership in that year, calculated as the rolling average over the last three years, at the time of Interspeech. 

New ISCA Fellows will be announced each year at INTERSPEECH.

Nominations should be sent to fellows_nomination AT isca-speech.org by February 10 each year. You should receive an acknowledgement within a week after receipt of the nomination form and reference forms.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.

• Nomination Form | Reference Form (updated 2022)

ISCA Fellows - 2008 onwards

• Fellow Galleries Year by Year

ISCA Fellows at INTERSPEECH 2019	ISCA Fellows 2022 Class at INTERSPEECH 2022 Opening Ceremony, from left to right,   Sebastian Möller (ISCA President), Heiga Zen, Hema Murthy, Hideki Kawahara, Alex Waibel, John Hansen (past ISCA President). David House and Tara Sainath were unable to attend.
ISCA Fellows 2018 Class at INTERSPEECH 2018 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, John Hansen (ISCA President), Richard Schwartz, Haizhou Li,  Keikichi Hirose, Carol Espy-Wilson, Denis Burnham	ISCA Fellows 2019 Class at INTERSPEECH 2019 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, John Hansen (ISCA President), Christian Wellekens, Mark Gales, Jennifer Cole, Martine Adda-Decker, Yannis Stylianou, Valerie Hazan. (Douglas O'Shaughnessy was unable to attend).
ISCA Fellows 2016 Class at INTERSPEECH 2016 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Mary Harper, Tanja Schultz, Helen Meng, Steve Renals, Chiu-yu Tseng, Shri Narayanan, Haizhou Li (ISCA President), Kate Knill (ISCA Board Member)	ISCA Fellows 2017 Class at INTERSPEECH 2017 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Haizhou Li (ISCA President), Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Michael Riley, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Alan W Black, Giuseppe Riccardi
ISCA Fellows 2014 Class at INTERSPEECH 2014 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Tanja Schultz (ISCA President), Bayya Yegnanarayana, Jacqueline Vaissière, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Michael Picheny, Isabel Trancoso, Kate Knill (ISCA Board Member).	ISCA Fellows 2015 Class at INTERSPEECH 2015 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Tanja Schultz (ISCA President), Marc Swerts, David Nahamoo, Lori Lamel, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Dario Bertero (representing Pascale Fung).
Some of ISCA Fellows and Isabel (former ISCA president) at ISCA assembly, INTERSPEECH 2011, Florence. Steve, Paul, Julia, Victor, Louis, Fred, Mari, Roberto, Wolfgang, Hermann, Elizabeth, Janet, Nelson, Philip, Li, and Adrian are not included in the photo.	ISCA Fellows 2013 Class at INTERSPEECH 2013 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Jerome Bellegarda, Hervé Bourlard, Daniel Hirst, John Makhoul, Keiichi Tokuda (Andrea Stolcke was not included) together with Keikichi Hirose (ISCA Board Member) and Jean-Franscois Bonastre (ISCA President)

ISCA Fellows since 2008:

Carlson Rolf 2008 For his contributions to multilingual speech synthesis and research in spoken dialogue systems and for his contributions to ISCA as board member and organizer of ISCA events Dalsgaard Paul 2008 In recognition of his work in spoken dialogue systems and his service to ISCA as Board member and a chair of ISCA events Fujisaki Hiroya 2008 In recognition of his pioneering research in speech analysis, perception, prosody and modelling and his leadership activities that helped defining and promoting the field of spoken language processing Furui Sadoaki 2008 In recognition of his research in speech and speaker recognition and his contributions to ISCA as a board member and President Granström Björn 2008   In recognition of his contributions to multilingual speech synthesis and research in spoken dialogue systems and animated agents and his service as board member of ESCA Hirschberg Julia 2008 In recognition of her contributions to speech synthesis and prosody research and her contributions to ISCA as board member and President Jelinek Fred 2008 In recognition of his lifelong commitment to research in speech communication and his pioneering work on statistical modelling for speech recognition Moore Roger 2008 In recognition of his applications of human speech perception and production models to speech technologies and his service to ISCA as President Ostendorf Mari 2008 In recognition of her contributions to research on prosody and rich transcription in spoken language processing Pols Louis 2008 In recognition of his contributions to speech synthesis assessment, his pioneering research on the perception of the dynamic properties of speech, and his service as President of ESCA Young Steve 2008 In recognition of his contributions to speech recognition and his creation of the HTK toolkit Zue Victor 2008 In recognition of his pioneering work in spoken dialogue systems and in spectrogram analysis Cutler Anne 2009 For her pioneering work on the lexical representations of spoken language Hess Wolfgang 2009 In recognition of his contributions to pitch determination and speech synthesis, his service to ISCA as board member, and his creation of the ISCA Archive Mariani Joseph 2009 In recognition of his contributions to spoken language processing and resources, and his service as founder and President of ESCA Ney Hermann 2009 For contributions to speech recognition and spoken language translation systems Pieraccini Roberto 2009 For contributions in the area of statistical natural language understanding and spoken dialog management and learning Shriberg Elizabeth 2009 For contributions to research on disfluencies, modeling prosody in speech understanding, and higher level features in speaker recognition Acero Alex 2010 For his contributions in research, development and education of spoken language technologies Baker Janet 2010 For her contributions to speech recognition technologies, and for her service to the speech community Hansen John 2010 For his contributions to research on speech signals under adverse conditions Lee Lin-shan 2010 For his contributions to Chinese spoken language processing and speech information retrieval, and his service to the speech language community Morgan Nelson 2010 For his contributions to robust feature extraction and novel acoustic models for automatic speech recognition Woodland Phil 2010 For his contributions to large vocabulary speech recognition including techniques for speaker adaptation and discriminative training Alwan Abeer 2011 For her contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their application to speech synthesis and recognition Deng Li 2011 For his contributions to research and leadership in the fields of speech modeling and automatic speech recognition Fourcin Adrian 2011 For his contributions to research in the fields of voice display and analysis, speech resources and systems assessment Hermansky Hynek 2011 For his contributions in bio-inspired approaches to processing of speech Millar Bruce 2011 For his contributions to research on cochlear implants and leadership in establishing a speech research community in Australia Stern Richard 2011 For his contributions to robust speech recognition and auditory perception Lee Chin-Hui 2012 For his contributions in adaptive learning, discriminative training and utterance verification Ohala John 2012 For his contributions to experimental phonology and phonetics, and ethological aspects of communication Sagisaka Yoshinori 2012 For his contributions to spoken language processing and speech prosody Seneff Stephanie 2012 For her contributions to conversational human-computer systems and computer-assisted language learning Bellegarda Jerome 2013 For contributions to statistical modeling algorithms, and leadership in their application to human language processing. Bourlard Hervé 2013 For contributions to research and leadership in the fields of statistical and neural network-based speech recognition. Hirst Daniel 2013 For contributions to the understanding of intonation, paradoxically one of the most universal yet language-specific features of human language. Makhoul John 2013 For pioneering and sustained contributions to speech modeling and spoken language processing technology. Stolcke Andreas 2013 For contributions to research and leadership in speech and speaker recognition, understanding and statistical modelling of spoken languages. Tokuda Keiichi 2013 For contributions to research and leadership in speech synthesis and speech signal processing. Glass James 2014 For contributions to speech processing and spoken language systems technologies Hakkani-Tür Dilek 2014 For contributions to advancing the state-of-the-art in spoken language processing, especially for human/human and human/machine conversational understanding Picheny Michael 2014 For contributions advancing the state-of-the-art in spoken language processing Trancoso Isabel 2014 For research in speech coding and significant and sustained contributions to speech science and technology for the Portuguese language Vaissière Jacqueline 2014 For pioneering works in clinical phonetics and your immense role at the interface between phonetics, phonology and speech engineering Yegnanarayana Bayya 2014 For outstanding contributions to research and education in processing of speech Fung Pascale 2015 For fundamental contributions to the interdisciplinary area of spoken language human-machine interactions. Häeb-Umbach Reinhold 2015 For contributions to improving the robustness of automatic speech recognition Lamel Lori 2015 For contributions to human-machine interaction via multilingual speech processing. Nahamoo David 2015 For technical contributions and leadership in speech systems and products. Swerts Marc 2015 For contributions to the understanding of the linguistic and non-linguistic functions of audiovisual prosody. Harper Mary 2016 For  leadership in the development of low-resource and robust speech processing technologies. Meng Helen 2016 For contributions to multilingual, multimodal human-computer interaction and language-learning technologies. Narayanan Shrikanth 2016 For contributions to speech communication science and technologies and their human-centered engineering applications. Renals Steve 2016 For contributions to speech recognition, speech synthesis, and natural language processing Schultz Tanja 2016 For contributions to multilingual speech recognition and biosignal processing for human-machine interaction Tseng Chiu-yu 2016 For contributions to prosody understanding through corpus based analysis and modeling, and service to speech and language communities. Black Alan 2017 For leadership in the area of automatic speech synthesis Gauvain Jean-Luc 2017 For wide ranging contributions to the field of automatic speech recognition Ramabhadran Bhuvana  2017 For contributions to the fields of speech recognition research and applications. Riccardi Giuseppe 2017 For contributions to language modeling, spoken language understanding and dialogue systems Riley Michael 2017 For work in developing weighted finite-state transducers and applications to automatic speech recognition. Burnham Denis 2018 For contributions to auditory-visual speech perception and to infant speech perception development Espy-Wilson Carol 2018 For contributions to speech acoustic modelling, speech signal processing, and applications to knowledge-driven speech recognition and speech enhancement. Hirose Keikichi 2018 For contributions to research and leadership in the field of speech prosody. King Simon 2018 For contributions to text-to-speech synthesis and the use of speech production knowledge in speech technology. Li Haizhou 2018 For contributions to multilingual speech information processing. Schwartz Richard 2018 For contributions to a wide range of speech and language technologies, with emphasis on search strategies and probabilistic modelling Adda Decker Martine 2019 For contributions to multilingual speech processing and large-scale, corpus-based linguistics, and  for bridging communities. Cole Jennifer 2019 For theoretical and experimental descriptions of the sources of phonological and prosodic variability in spontaneous speech. Gales Mark 2019 For wide ranging, fundamental contributions to research and leadership in the fields of speech recognition, synthesis and statistical modelling algorithms. Hazan Valerie 2019 For contributions to speech perception and production. O'Shaughnessy Douglas 2019 For contributions to automatic speech recognition and leadership in the speech community Stylianou Yannis 2019 For contributions to speech analysis, speech modification and speech communication. Wellekens Christian 2019 For pioneering contributions in the use of neural networks in automatic speech recognition and education activity in speech science. Alku Paavo 2020 For contributions in voice source analysis and its applications Best Catherine 2020 For contributions to non-native speech perception, bilingualism, and language acquisition. Cooke Martin 2020 For contributions to speech perception modelling, robust speech recognition and objective intelligibility models. Hain Thomas 2020 For leadership in the field of automatic speech recognition. Nakamura Satoshi 2020 For contributions to research on multi-lingual and cross-lingual spoken language communication systems Schuller Björn 2020 For contributions to computational paralinguistics, and research and leadership in the speech processing community. Beckman Mary 2021 For contributions to phonology, including the phonology of intonation and language acquisition. Bonastre Jean-François 2021 For leadership in the field of speaker recognition and sustained contributions to ISCA. Eskenazi Maxine 2021 For contributions to phonetics, language learning, spoken dialog systems,language resources and for pioneering service to the community. Fosler-Lussier Eric 2021 For fundamental contributions to research and leadership in the fields of speech recognition and spoken language processing. Livescu Karen 2021 For contributions to articulatory modeling, to speech representation learning, and to bridging the gaps between speech research, machine learning and natural language processing. Liu Yang 2021 For contributions to speech recognition and understanding, prosody modeling, summarization, sentiment analysis and social media research. Wang DeLiang 2021 For seminal work in the area of speech separation and speech segregation. Yu Dong 2021 For research and development in deep learning-based automatic speech recognition. House David 2022 For outstanding  multidisciplinary work at the crossroads of speech science and technology Kawahara Hideki 2022 For contributions to speech signal processing and speech science by introducing flexible speech analysis, modification and synthesis systems Murthy Hema 2022 For contributions to signal processing for speech technology applications and for leadership in speech processing for Indian languages Sainath Tara 2022 For contributions to deep learning for automatic speech recognition Waibel Alex 2022 For pioneering contributions in multilingual and multimodal spoken language processing and translation. Zen Heiga 2022 For pioneering contributions to model-based speech synthesis Bailly   Gerard 2023 For contributions to multimodal speech generation and bridging the gaps between speech research and social robotics  Hasegawa-Johnson Mark                   2023 For contributions to knowledge-constrained signal generation Knill Kate   2023 For technical contributions in multi-language/accent, low-resource speech processing and long-standing service to the speech community Ko Hanseok  2023 For sustained innovation in Korean and English spoken language technologies Maekawa Kikuo 2023 For contributions to the development of language resources for the study of Japanese as a spoken language Noeth Elmar 2023 For innovative and extensive contributions to the analysis of pathological speech signals Potamianos Alex 2023 For contributions to human-centered speech and multimodal signal analysis and conversational technologies Watanabe  Shinji 2023 For wide ranging, fundamental contributions to research and leadership in speech recognition technologies Arai Takayuki 2024 For contributions to developing models of speech production and applying them for speech science, technology, pathology and education Berkling Kay 2024 For contributions to education, improving childhood learning and boosting diversity through interactive technology Busso Carlos 2024 For contributions to speech and multimodal affective signal processing and their technology applications Möller Sebastian 2024 For sustained contributions to the evaluation of speech transmission, processing, and speech technology Raj Bhiksha 2024 For contributions to robust speech recognition and other areas in speech and audio processing. Svendsen Torbjørn 2024 For contributions to speech processing research and long-standing contributions to the speech community Wagner Petra 2024 For contributions to multimodal prosody, conversational interaction, and speech synthesis.

ISCA Fellow Selection Committee:

2024/25

Bjorn Schuller (CHAIR)        
Mark Gales                      
Maxine Eskenazi                  
Hideki Kawahara                  
Shinji Watanabe              
Hema Murthy                   
Petra Wagner                    
Eric Fosler-Lussier            
Kikuo Maekawa                 

2023/24

Keikichi Hirose (CHAIR)          
                
Martin Cooke                   
Karen Livescu                   
Mark Gales                    
Maxine Eskenazi               
Hideki Kawahara 

Shinji Watenhabe
Hema Murthy 
Bjorn Schuller     

Previous FSC members

Alex Acero, Abeer Alwan, Jerome Bellegarda (Chair 2017/18), Catherine Best ,Alan Black, Jennifer Cole, Martin Cooke, Anne Cutler, Li Deng (Chair 2015/16), Hiroya Fujisaki, Pascale Fung, Sadaoki Furui, Björn Granström, Val Hazan (Chair 2020/21),Keikichi Hirose (Chair2022/23), Julia Hirschberg, Daniel Hirst,  Chin-Hui Lee, Lin-shan Lee, Karen Livescu,  (Chair 2012), Joseph Mariani, Helen Meng, Bruce Millar, Roger Moore, Satoshi Nakamura, Shrikanth Narayanan, Hermann Ney, Michael Picheny, Louis Pols, Roberto Pieraccini, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Elizabeth Shriberg, Rich Stern, Marc Swerts, Keiichi Tokuda, Isabel Trancoso (Chair 2019/20), Chiu-Yu Tseng, Jacqueline Vaissière, Steve Young (Chair 2013/14)