Dear ISCA members,

New ISCA board members

Every two years, half of the ISCA board positions are up for election. This year we had nine open positions on the ISCA board. It is with great pleasure that I introduce to you the nine elected ISCA board members who will dedicate their time and energy to our great association for the next four years. Their term will start in August, during the General Assembly at Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The following seven ISCA members have been elected onto the ISCA board for their first term:

Luciana Ferrer, Computer Science Institute, UBA-CONICET, Argentina

Hung-yi Lee, National Taiwan University

Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, University of Palermo, Italy

Berrak Sisman, Johns Hopkins University, US

Jennifer Williams, University of Southampton, UK

Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal

The following two ISCA board members have been re-elected to the ISCA board:

Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden

Ioana Vasilescu, LISN CNRS & University Paris-Saclay, France

I wish all new ISCA members good luck on the ISCA board!

Technical Program Committee Meeting in Delft, the Netherlands

On 7 and 8 May, the technical program committee meeting (TPC meeting) was held in Delft, the Netherlands. The Interspeech 2025 TPC and lead area chairs (ACs) from the various areas met for two days to discuss paper decisions and sessions amongst others. I sincerely want to thank

• all (lead) area chairs for their work in getting the reviews for all papers and carrying out the difficult task of paper decisions,

• all reviewers, your job is crucial,

• and particularly the Interspeech 2025 TPC for coordinating and carrying out the massive task of organising all aspects of the technical program of Interspeech 2025.

The decisions for acceptance or rejection have since been sent out. Interspeech 2025 has an acceptance rate of 49.87%, with the highest number of papers (1163) ever to be presented at Interspeech. For those of you whose paper are rejected: I hope you will consider improving your paper based on the reviews and perhaps try again next year or elsewhere. For those whose papers were accepted: congratulations!

Interspeech-related news

Registration is open

Registration for Interspeech 2025 is open: https://www.interspeech2025.org/registration

If you are an ISCA member, please have your ISCA e-mail address and ISCA membership ID ready because you will need both to verify your ISCA membership. The ISCA membership ID can be found on your personal page at http://www.isca-speech.org -> login. Please note that due to the change of ISCA database to WildApricot, your old ISCA membership number is no longer valid.

If you have an accepted paper, please have the paper IDs ready.

Paper coverage

Each accepted paper must be covered by at least one of its co-authors with a full, student, or retired registration (can be at a “light” rate). Participants registering as student or retired will be able to cover two papers for presentation and publication, and participants with a full registration can cover a maximum of four papers.

Preliminary programme

Preliminary programme will be available at the end of June.

ISCA Travel Grants for Interspeech 2025!

We are excited to welcome the student and young researcher community working in speech science and technology across the globe to attend the upcoming Interspeech 2025 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Last year we implemented a new travel grant scheme. We moved from a fixed travel grant amount scheme to a variable travel grant scheme. This is motivated by the thought to help students from underrepresented areas with higher grant amounts. There are 3 different grant amounts based on the country of affiliation of the grantee: 

• 500 euros for grantees whose affiliation is from the same continent as where Interspeech is organized. 

• 1000 euros for grantees whose affiliation is from other continents. 

• 2500 euros for grantees whose affiliation is from under-represented countries in South America and Africa.

Students and young researchers who have an accepted paper(s) at Interspeech 2025 can apply for an ISCA Travel Grant through https://services.isca-speech.org/iscagrants/admin.php.

More information can be found through https://isca-speech.org/Grants and at the Interspeech 2025 website: https://www.interspeech2025.org/travel-grants. Please note that the deadline is June 6.

See you all in Rotterdam, the Netherlands!

Odette Scharenborg

ISCA President