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International Speech Communication Association

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The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) 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.

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Purpose of the association

The purpose is to promote the study and application of automatic speech processing (in the two directions: speech recognition and speech synthesis) with several sub-topics like speaker recognition or speech compression. The activity of the association concerns all aspects of speech processing, from the computational aspects to the linguistic aspects as well as the theorical aspects.

Conferences

ISCA organizes yearly the INTERSPEECH conference.

Most recent INTERSPEECH:

  • 2013 Lyon
  • 2014 Singapore
  • 2015 Dresden
  • Forthcoming INTERSPEECH:

  • 2016 San Francisco
  • 2017 Stockholm
  • ISCA board

    Current president is Haizhou Li.
    Vice president is John Hansen.
    The other members are professionals of the field.

    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).

    References

    International Speech Communication Association Wikipedia