International Speech Communication Association
The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)[1] is a non-profit organization and one of the two main professional associations for speech communication science and technology, the other association being the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Purpose
The purpose of the association is to promote the study and application of automatic speech processing (in two directions: speech recognition and speech synthesis) with several sub-topics such as speaker recognition or speech compression. Activities concern all aspects of speech processing, including the computational, linguistic, and theoretical aspects.
Conferences
ISCA organizes yearly the INTERSPEECH conference.
Most recent INTERSPEECH:
- 2013 Lyon
- 2014 Singapore
- 2015 Dresden
- 2016 San Francisco
- 2017 Stockholm
- 2018 Hyderabad
- 2019 Graz
- 2020 Shanghai (fully virtual)
- 2021 Brno (hybrid)
- 2022 Incheon
- 2023 Dublin
Forthcoming INTERSPEECH:
- 2024 Jerusalem
- 2025 Rotterdam
ISCA board
Current ISCA president is Sebastian Möller. The Vice president is Odette Scharenborg and the other members are professionals in the field.[2]
History of ISCA
ISCA is the result of the merge of ESCA (European Speech Communication Association created in 1987 in Europe) and PC-ICSLP (Permanent Council of the organization of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing created in 1986 in Japan). The first ISCA event was held in 2000 in Beijing, China.[3]
See also
References
External links
- ISCA web page