Dear Members,

 Welcome to the November edition of ISCApad!

 First of all, I write to give you an update on the activities regarding INTERSPEECH conferences. INTERSPEECH 2016 has 

announced various call for proposals for the  technical program, which can be found at the conference website.  You are 

invited to submit proposals and contribute to shaping the technical program and help shape our community direction. 

 Next, the call for INTERSPEECH 2019 is being met with great enthusiasm. ISCA Board received several bid proposals 

to host INTERSPEECH 2019 by the deadline on 1 November. The Board would like to thank all the proposers for their efforts 

and willingness to serve the community.  The selection outcome will be announced during INTERSPEECH 2016 at San Francisco.

 In this edition, I would like to share with you the ISCA Grants and Awards program. This is a program to support and 

encourage students and young researchers by providing grants for attending conferences, and to pause and recognize 

our colleagues advanced research contributions.  At each INTERSPEECH, an ISCA award is given to the 3 best student papers 

presented at the conference, based on anonymous review process of the papers and the presentation at the conference.  ISCA 

also financially supports students and young scientists by providing a limited number of grants for young authors with accepted

 papers at INTERSPEECH and ISCA supported workshops. The ISCA board member responsible for coordinating ISCA's Grants 

and Awards Program is Torbjørn Svendsen.

 ISCA strives to meet the needs of its membership through various outreach programs. We  look forward to your participation!

 Haizhou Li - ISCA President