Dear ISCA members,

This president’s message is full of exciting news! We have seven new ISCA Fellows, a new ISCA Distinguished Lecturer, and the location of Interspeech 2027 has been chosen.

ISCA Fellows

Over the past few months the ISCA Board has sought out nominations for ISCA Fellows. It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of the Board, I announce that the following colleagues have been elected ISCA fellows. Their titles will be conferred formally at Interspeech 2024. Congratulations to them!

The ISCA Fellow program is to recognise ISCA members who have shown outstanding scientific and/or technical contributions and/or continued significant service to ISCA.

Takayuki Arai, Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

 For contributions to developing models of speech production and applying them for speech science, technology, pathology and education

 Kay Berkling, DHBW Mosbach,  Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany

 For her contributions to education, improving childhood learning and boosting diversity through interactive technology

 Carlos Busso, University of Texas at Dallas, US

 For contributions to speech and multimodal affective signal processing and their technology applications

Sebastian Moller,Technische Universität Berlin, and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany

 For sustained contributions to the evaluation of speech transmission, processing, and speech technology

 Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, US

 For contributions to robust speech recognition and other areas in speech and audio processing.

 Torbjorn Svendsen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

 For contributions to speech processing research and long-standing   contributions to the speech community

Petra Wagner, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

 For contributions to multimodal prosody, conversational interaction, and speech synthesis.

ISCA Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2025)

Over the past few months the ISCA Board has sought out nominations for ISCA Distinguished Lecturer (DL). After a nomination and selection procedure, the new DL was chosen. It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of the Board, I announce that Rita Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, US, has been elected as ISCA DL. We wish her all the best for her upcoming travels.

 Rita Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, US

The Distinguished Lecturer (DL) programme is an Outreach activity which funds ISCA scientists to undertake lecture tours to parts of the world where our research field is not well represented.

Interspeech 2027

The Interspeech conference is the flagship conference of ISCA. After having been hosted on four different continents in the world, Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia (unfortunately Interspeech 2024 moved to Europe), Interspeech 2027 will be hosted in South America. Congratulations to the Sao Paulo, Brazil team for their winning bid!

Interspeech 2024 reviewing deadline

The Interspeech 2024 reviewing period has started. A big thank you to all Interspeech reviewers! Please note that for the smooth organisation of Interspeech 2024, it is of the utmost importance to finalise your reviews on time, and please do so before April 13.

Odette Scharenborg

Isca President