Dear ISCA members,

Over the past few months the ISCA Board has sought out nominations for the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement.It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of the Board, I announce that the ISCA Medalist for Scientific Achievement 2024 is Prof. Dr. Isabel Trancoso:

'For pioneering contributions to speech coding and resources for the Portuguese language, and the speech community.'

The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement recognizes and honors an individual each year who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. The ISCA Medal has been established in 1989.

The ISCA Medal will be presented to Prof. dr. Isabel Trancoso by the ISCA President at the Interspeech opening ceremony in Kos, Greece, where Isabel will deliver a keynote speech.

Isabel is a well-known figure within our association but for the newer members I’m happy to provide a short bio: Isabel is a full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and a former president of ISCA. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing for several years. She was elected ISCA Fellow in 2014. Also, being one of the few senior women in the field, she has been a role model for, I am sure, many younger female researchers.

Interspeech 2024 & Reviewing

Behind the scenes many people are working hard to organize Interspeech 2024 in Kos. I hope many of you managed to submit a first draft to Interspeech before the deadline of March 2. Looking at the steep increase in paper submission IDs towards the deadline, I get the impression that many were dealing with a last minute deadline rush. Great to see to so many papers submitted to our flagship conference!

For now: good luck finalising your submissions if you haven’t done so, note the deadline of March 11 for the final updates.

All these submitted papers of course need to be reviewed. If you are not yet an Interspeech reviewer, please check whether you qualify and sign up if you do! All the information can be found here: https://www.isca-speech.org/Reviewing

Odette Scharenborg

ISCA President