International Speech Communication Association


The International Speech Communication Association 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 of the association

The purpose is to promote the study and application of automatic speech processing 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:
Forthcoming INTERSPEECH:
Current ISCA president is John Hansen.
Vice president is Torbjørn Svendsen.
The other members are professionals of the field.

History of ISCA

ISCA is the result of the merge of ESCA and PC-ICSLP. The first ISCA event was held in 2000 in Beijing, China.