Dear ISCA members

For many of us who follow the Gregorian calendar, December is the last month of the year. The month in which many of us are trying to finish the last bits and pieces before going on a well-deserved holiday to end 2023 and start the New Year, hopefully well-rested, on January 1. However, for many others amongst us, the New Year has already begun, for them: I hope you had a great start to the New Year!

The new year will bring us Interspeech. As announced in my previous message, Interspeech 2024 will be held in Greece. The Interspeech 2024 organisers visited several potential sites for Interspeech 2024 in Greece, after which they decided that their preferred site is Kos, but please note that negotiations are still ongoing. In the meantime I hope that many of you have started preparing their papers in time for submission before the March 2^nd, 2024 deadline!

Nominations for ISCA Distinguished Lecturer

In the previous ISCAPad I already announced nomination season and mentioned the deadlines for the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement (January 5, 2024) and the ISCA Fellows Program (February 10, 2024). Additionally, nominations are also sought for the ISCA Distinguished Lecturers, the deadline is January 31, 2024. So…. Look around you and nominate those amazing colleagues! More information on the procedure and the nomination forms can be found at our website: https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/.

Upcoming deadlines:

• 20 December 2023: abstract submission deadline Speech Prosody

• 1 January 2024: bids for Interspeech 2027

• 7 January 2024: full paper submission deadline Speech Prosody

• 2 March 2024: full paper submission deadline Interspeech

Important dates:

• 2-5 July 2024: Speech Prosody, Leiden, The Netherlands, https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/sp2024.

• 1-5 September 2024: Interspeech, Greece, http://www.interspeech2024.org

Happy holidays and I am looking forward to seeing you in 2024!

Odette Scharenborg

ISCA President