Dear friends of ISCA,

Following the good news in March regarding the ISCA medalist and the promise of INTERSPEECH 2026 in Sydney, the month of April again brings good news: The Fellows Selection Committee has nominated 8 new ISCA Fellows for their significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. You will find the new ISCA Fellows with the citations naming their contributions in the message below. I would like to thank the entire Fellow Selection Committee, headed by Keikichi Hirose, as well as the ISCA Board Coordinator for the fellows program, Phil Green, for organizing a very careful and thoughtful selection process. We hope to be able to congratulate all new ISCA Fellows during the opening ceremony of INTERSPEECH 2023 in Dublin.

Talking about INTERSPEECH 2023, the organizers are currently very busy with the Technical Program, and many of you will have received review requests for papers submitted for our flagship conference. As the number of submissions is very high, I would like to ask all of you to contribute with timely and detailed reviews; this will enable again a very high quality Technical Program. In parallel, the organizing committee is very busy with arranging keynotes, installing the registration system, and taking care of all other conference logistics. Naomi Harte, the General Chair of INTERSPEECH 2023, will provide detailed information in this ‘president’s message’ place in the May ISCApad.

I wish you good start of Spring (for most of us), and a good read (for all) of this ISCApad, as usual nicely compiled by Chris Wellekens.

Sebastian Möller

ISCA President