Anil Kumar Vuppala was the tutorial chair at the Interspeech 2021 conference, a top and largest conference in speech processing. The conference was online from 30 August to 3 September at Brno, Czech Republic.
INTERSPEECH conferences are attended by researchers with a long-term track-record in speech sciences and technology, as well as by early-stage researchers or researchers interested in a new domain within the INTERSPEECH areas. An important part of the conference was the tutorials held on the first day of the conference (30 August). Speakers with long and deep expertise in speech gave the participants their rich learning experience and an exposure to longstanding research problems, contemporary topics of research as well as emerging areas.
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) is a non-profit organization. Its original statutes (statutes in French or their translation in English) were deposited on February 23rd at the Prefecture of Grenoble in France by René CARRÉ and registered on 27 March, 1988.
The association started as ESCA (European Speech Communication Association) and, since its foundation, has been steadily expanding and consolidating its activities. It has offered an increasing range of services and benefits to its members and also it has put its financial and administrative functions on a firm professional footing. Indeed, over the ten years of its existence, ESCA has evolved from a small EEC-supported European organization to a fully-independent and self-supporting international association.
At the General Assembly that took place during the Eurospeech conference in Budapest (September 1999), ESCA became a truly international association in the global field of speech science and technology, changing its name to ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and modifying its statutes accordingly.
The purpose of the association is to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology. The association is aimed at all persons and institutions interested in fundamental research and technological development that aims at describing, explaining and reproducing the various aspects of human communication by speech, that is, without assuming this enumeration to be exhaustive, phonetics, linguistics, computer speech recognition and synthesis, speech compression, speaker recognition, aids to medical diagnosis of voice pathologies.
More information: https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php