Dear ISCA members,

Any association either has to evolve or has to die. ISCA is now renovating its numerical footstep and particularly wishes to improve its communication. As a monthly newsletter ISCApad achieved this aim for several decades. It has been created in 1998 by Isabel Trancoso who edited the first 42 numbers as a simple monthly email to the members. I then joined back in 2001 and released so far 282 numbers (until #325 July 2025). The current off line presentation has been imagined in August 2010 by Tse Min Lua from InCampus (Singapore) who then assisted me very efficiently for the editing job. Our past President J.F. Bonastre has chosen in 2011 to add a section “President's message” section which has been maintained all along from then and is highly appreciated by the readers. Many PhD researchers and also students found their first job or first internship by surfing ISCApad. Authors found readily enough conferences where to publish their most recent results. But the frame, the contents must evolve as well as speech research and now comes a new newsletter and will undoubtedly fill out many new needs. But I am perhaps a bit too old to get into this new boat: I retired in 2007. I wish to give all my thanks to all past and current board members and Interspeech organizers and also to all readers who actively assisted me and mainly with Manu Foxonet with whom I kept regular contacts to update the newsletter and the memberlist. I wish the current board the utmost success in its mission in order to improve the interlinks between the members of ISCA.

Emeritus Professor Christian J. Wellekens