ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
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. The award of this ISCA Medal was established in 1989.
Any ISCA member can make a nomination. All nominations for the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement of the year should be submitted to ISCA Secretariat at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by the 5 January ISCA Board will select and announce the winner of the year on 1 March. The nomination form can be downloaded here. Unsuccessful candidates of the previous year(s) must be re-nominated to qualify for candidacy. The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement is presented to the winner by ISCA President at INTERSPEECH opening ceremony, where the Medalist also delivers a keynote speech.
The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement has been awarded to:
- Shrikanth Narayanan (INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin)
- Lin-shan Lee (INTERSPEECH 2022, Incheon)
- Hermann Ney (INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno)
- Janet Pierrehumbert (INTERSPEECH 2020, Shanghai)
- Keiichi Tokuda (INTERSPEECH 2019, Graz)
- Bishnu Atal (INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad)
- Fumitada Itakura (INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm)
- John Makhoul (INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco)
- Mary E. Beckman (INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden)
- Anne Cutler (INTERSPEECH 2014, Singapore)
- Hynek Hermansky (INTERSPEECH 2013, Lyon, France)
- Chin-Hui Lee (INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, USA)
- Julia Hirschberg (INTERSPEECH 2011, Florence, Italy)
- Steve Young (INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Japan)
- Sadaoki Furui (INTERSPEECH 2009, Brighton, UK)
- Hiroya Fujisaki (INTERSPEECH 2008, Brisbane, Australia)
- Victor Zue (INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, Belgium)
- John Ohala (INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh, USA)
- Graeme Clark (INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Portugal)
- Manfred Schroeder (INTERSPEECH 2004, Jeju, Korea)
- Jens Blauert (EUROSPEECH/INTERSPEECH 2003, Geneva, Switzerland)
- Ilse lehiste (ICSLP/INTERSPEECH'02, Denver, Co, USA)
- Louis Pols (EUROSPEECH/INTERSPEECH '01, Aalborg) Institute of Phonetic Sciences / ACLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Frederick Jelinek (EUROSPEECH '99, Budapest) Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Mario Rossi (EUROSPEECH '97, Rhodes) Institute of Phonetics, Aix en Provence, France
- Ken Stevens (EUROSPEECH '95, Madrid) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Adrian Fourcin (EUROSPEECH '93, Berlin) University College of London, UK
- Jim Flanagan (EUROSPEECH '91, Genoa) CAIP, USA
- Gunnar Fant (EUROSPEECH '89, Paris) Sweden