1)Introduction
ISCA started a new Distinguished Lecturers 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. Up to now, the following Distinguished Lecturers were selected and completed their trips. Professor Chin-Hui Lee and Professor Marc Swerts (2007-2008), Professor Richard M. Stern, Professor Abeer Alwan and  Professor James R. Glass (2008-2009), For the details of DL trips are found at the bottom of this page. For 2009-2010, Dr. Li Deng and Professor Thierry Dutoit are selected.

2)Nominations and Selection

A Distinguished Lecturers Committee has been organized. The chair of the Committee for 2010-2013 is Professor Julia Hirshberg. Nominations of candidates for 2010-2011 terms are called. Each nomination should include information (short biography, selected publications, website, etc. plus topics/titles of up to 3 possible lectures) of no more than 2 pages to be sent to the Committee Chair (julia@cs.columbia.edu  and dl_nominations@isca-speech.org). Only those who receive the highest votes by the Committee, exceeding a minimum threshold of 2/3, are selected. Nominations for this year should be received before the deadline of Nov 15 2010.