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.
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.
ISCA organizes yearly the INTERSPEECH conference.
Most recent INTERSPEECH:
Forthcoming INTERSPEECH:
Current ISCA president is Sebastian Möller. The Vice president is Odette Scharenborg and the other members are professionals in the field.[2]
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]