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.

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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. 

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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.

 

ITG Conference on Speech Communication 

24.-26. September 2025 | Berlin

Scope

The 16^th ITG Conference on Speech Communication will explore the theme of Speech Communication in the Age of Foundation Models. We hope that you will find this an area of pertinent debates and great innovation potential. We are, however, soliciting contributions on all areas of theory, algorithms and applications related to speech, audio, and spoken language processing, comprising especially:

• Foundation Models for Speech Processing 
• Speech Enhancement and Separation
• Source Localization and Tracking
• Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events
• Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition
• Spoken Dialogue, Diarization, and Spoken Document Retrieval Systems
• Speech Synthesis
• Speech Modeling, Coding, and Transmission
• LLMs & Speech Interaction
• Privacy in Speech Technologies
• Speech Production and Perception
• Speech Quality and Intelligibility Assessment
• Paralinguistics, Speech Diagnostics, and Speech‐related Biosignals
• Speech in Automotive, Mobile, and Multimodal Applications
• Acoustic Interfaces, Assistive Devices, and Hearing Aids
• Hardware and Software Tools
• Emerging Topics and Applications
• Self-supervised learning (SSL) from foundation models

Paper Submission and Deadlines

• Registration of Title, Author List and Abstract:       May 23, 2025
• Upload of full paper:                                            May 26, 2025, 23h59 CEST
• Notification of acceptance:                                   July 18, 2025 
• Submission of final print version:                          August 13, 2025

Papers are published by the VDE Verlag at IEEE Xplore, and are expected to be written in English according to the IEEE style guidelines. They must not exceed four pages plus one additional page containing only references. Authors are invited to visit tu.berlin/qu/itg-sc-2025 for details on the submission guidelines.

Technical Program Committee

S. Möller (General Chair), TU Berlin

D. Kolossa (TPC Chair) TU Berlin

T. Gerkmann (General Co-Chair), Univ. Hamburg

C. Antweiler, RWTH Aachen University

S. Doclo, Universität Oldenburg

G. Enzner, Universität Oldenburg

T. Fingscheidt, TU Braunschweig

H.‐W. Gierlich

E. Habets, Int. Audio Laboratories Erlangen

R. Häb‐Umbach, Universität Paderborn

P. Jax, RWTH Aachen University

W. Kellermann, FAU Erlangen‐Nürnberg

D. Klakow, Universität des Saarlandes

R. Koning, Advanced Bionics

G. Kubin, TU Graz

H. Löllmann, FAU Erlangen‐Nürnberg

R. Martin, Ruhr‐Universität Bochum

B. Meyer, Universität Oldenburg

H. Puder, WS Audiology

R. Schlüter, RWTH Aachen University

G. Schmidt, CAU Kiel

B. Schuller, Universität Augsburg

T. Schultz, Universität Bremen

The Author Kit for Interspeech 2025 is now available. Please visit the For Authors section on  https://interspeech2025.org for more information.

A reminder to start thinking about

• ISCA Fellow Nominations for 2025: web page here.
• ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2025-26: web page here

Dear colleagues,

the ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models will be organized by Technische Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Berlin on February 20, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.

Topics which we aim to address include but are not limited to

• User diversity: Which aspects of human speech and language production affect the performance of large foundation models? In which way, and for which tasks?
• Language use: How are large language models able to cope with different languages, dialects, and sociolects? How do they deal with code switching?
• Human adaptation: How does the use of large language models affect language comprehension, as well as speech and language production? Which alignment effects occur, and in which time spans?
• Model adaptation: How do models need to be designed to better cope with speech and language diversity? How do training and finetuning affect model performance?
• Inclusion: What data and technologies are necessary to better cope with diversity in large speech and language models?

We invite both experimental and positional papers addressing these and other related research questions.
The workshop will consist of a number of oral presentations and discussion panels. Accepted speakers are invited to submit a short or long paper which will be published online after the workshop.

Important dates:

• Abstract submission: 13 December 2024
• Notification of acceptance: 10 January 2025
• Short or long paper submission: 14 February 2025

More details can be found here.

Sebastian Möller

Nominations are open for the 2025 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement.  Nominations must be submitted by November 1 to ISCA Secretariat at secretariat@isca-speech.org.

We cordially invite all ISCA members to the General Assembly.  We are looking forward to seeing you in Kos.

2024 ISCA General Assembly

Date: Monday September 2, 2024, at 17:30 - 19:30

Venue: Panacea Amphitheater, Kipriotis Hotels & Conference Center (KICC),
      Kos, Greece