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Best Papers in Interspeech & ISCA Journals

Each year ISCA awards 3 best student papers at Interspeech based on anonymous reviewing and presentation at the conference. The Interspeech Area Chairs nominate candidate papers that are assessed by a jury with representatives from the ISCA Board, Area Chairs and the Interspeech Technical Program Chairs. The jury for the best student paper award is impartial, i.e. members cannot participate in the voting if (s)he is in any way involved in/with any of the award candidate. Each paper is awarded 500 euros to be split between the student authors.

From 2025, a new award for the most influential paper published in Interspeech is presented.  It is selected from all papers (not limited to students) in a five-year window based on the long-term impact and considering the category of the papers (e.g. science, datasets etc). Selection is done by the award committee consisting of ISCA board members and TC members.

Best Papers of the journals Speech Communication, and Computer Speech and Language are also announced by ISCA during Interspeech.


  • Interspeech 2026, Sydney
    • ISCA Award for the Most Influential Paper published in Interspeech (2021–2025)
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold)

      • "MOV-AAD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Auditory Attention Decoding During Moving Conversations"
        Xiaomin He, Vishal Choudhari, Tristan J. Spratt, Aarya Raghavan, Richard T. Lee, Nima Mesgarani

      • “VOSSA: Voiceprint Optimization for Streaming Speech Architectures”
        Mu-Ruei Tseng, Waris Quamer, Ghady Nasrallah, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

      • “Lightweight Detection and Model Attribution of Synthetic Speech via Residual Statistical Fingerprints”
        Matías Pizarro, Mike Laszkiewicz, Dorothea Kolossa, Asja Fischer

    • ISCA Award for the Best Research Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2021–2025)

      • “Linguistic features and automatic classifiers for identifying mild cognitive impairment and dementia”
        Laura Calzà, Gloria Gagliardi, Rema Rossini Favretti, Fabio Tamburini, Computer Speech & Language, Volume 65, January 2021, Article 101113

    • ISCA Award for the Best Review Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2021–2025)

      • “A review of speaker diarization: Recent advances with deep learning”
        Tae Jin Park, Naoyuki Kanda, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Kyu J. Han, Shinji Watanabe, Shrikanth Narayanan, Computer Speech & Language, Volume 72, March 2022, Article 101317

    • ISCA Award for the Best Paper published in Speech Communication (2021–2025)

      • “The Hearing-Aid Speech Perception Index (HASPI) Version 2”
        James M. Kates, Kathryn H. Arehart, Speech Communication, Volume 131, July 2021, pp. 35–46

    • ISCA Award for the Best Overview Paper published in Speech Communication (2021–2025)

      • “Emotional voice conversion: Theory, databases and ESD”
        Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Rui Liu, Haizhou Li, Speech Communication, Volume 137, February 2022, pp. 1–18

  • Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam
    • ISCA Award for the Most Influential Paper published in Interspeech (2020–2024)
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold)
      • "On the Relationship between Accent Strength and Articulatory Features",
        Kevin Huang, Sean Foley, Jihwan Lee, Yoonjeong Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
      • "OWSM v4: Improving Open Whisper-Style Speech Models  via Data Scaling and Cleaning Models",
        Yifan Peng, Muhammad Shakeel, Yui Sudo, William Chen, Jinchuan Tian, Chyi-Jiunn Lin and Shinji Watanabe
      • "Attention Models and Auditory Transduction Features for Noise Robustness",
        Cathal Ó Faoláin and Andrew Hines
    • ISCA Award for the Best Research Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2020–2024)
      • “Transfer learning from adult to children for speech recognition: Evaluation, analysis and recommendations”
        Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar and Panayiotis Georgiou, Computer Speech & Language, Volume 63, 2020
    • ISCA Award for the Best Review Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2020–2024) 
      • “Turn-taking in Conversational Systems and Human-Robot Interaction: A Review”
        Gabriel Skantze, Computer Speech & Language, Volume 67, 2021
    • ISCA Award for the Best Paper published in Speech Communication (2019-2023):
      • (TBA)
  • Interspeech 2024, Kos
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold):
      • "Analysis of articulatory setting for L1 and L2 English speakers using MRI data", Kevin Huang, Jack Goldberg, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth Narayanan
      • "A Contrastive Learning Approach to Mitigate Bias in Speech Models", Alkis Koudounas, Flavio Giobergia, Eliana Pastor and Elena Baralis
      • " SimpleSpeech: Towards Simple and Efficient Text-to-Speech with Scalar Latent Transformer Diffusion Models ", Dongchao Yang, Dingdong Wang, Haohan Guo, Xueyuan Chen, Xixin Wu and Helen Meng
    • ISCA Award for the Best Research Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2019-2023):
      • “Identifying Mild Cognitive Impairment and mild Alzheimer’s disease based on spontaneous speech using ASR and linguistic features”, Gábor Gosztolya, Veronika Vincze, László Tóth, Magdolna Pákáski, János Kálmán, Ildikó Hoffmann,
        Computer Speech & Language, Volume 53, Pages 181-197, January 2019
    • ISCA Award for the Best Paper published in Speech Communication (2019-2023):
      • "CN-Celeb: Multi-genre speaker recognition", Lantian Li, Ruiqi Liu, Jiawen Kang, Yue Fan, Hao Cui, Yunqi Cai, Ravichander Vipperla, Thomas Fang Zheng, Dong Wang, Speech Communication, Volume 137, Pages 77-91, February 2022

  • Interspeech 2023, Dublin
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold):
      • "Diverse and Expressive Speech Prosody Prediction with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model", Xiang Li, Songxiang Liu, Max W. Y. Lam, Zhiyong Wu, Chao Weng and Helen Meng
      • "Multimodal Turn-Taking Model Using Visual Cues for End-of-Utterance Prediction in Spoken Dialogue Systems", Fuma Kurata, Mao Saeki, Shinya Fujie and Yoichi Matsuyama
      • "Sociodemographic and Attitudinal Effects on Dialect Speakers’ Articulation of the Standard Language: Evidence from German-Speaking Switzerland", Carina Steiner, Dieter Studer-Joho, Corinne Lanthemann, Andrin Büchler and Adrian Leemann.
    • ISCA Award for the Best Research Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2018-2022):
      • “rVAD: An unsupervised segment-based robust voice activity detection method”, Zheng-Hua Tan, Achintya kr. Sarkar, Najim Dehak, Volume 59, Pages 1-21, 2020
    • ISCA Award for the Best Paper published in Speech Communication (2018-2022):
      • "End-to-end acoustic modeling using convolutional neural networks for HMM-based automatic speech recognition", Palaz D., Magimai-Doss M., and Collobert R., Volume 108, April, 2019
  • Interspeech 2022, Incheon
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold):
      • "Transfer Learning Framework for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech using a Large-Scale Unlabeled Speech Corpus ", Minchan Kim, Myeonghun Jeong, Byoung Jin Choi, Sunghwan Ahn, Joun Yeop Lee and Nam Soo Kim
      • "Tree-constrained Pointer Generator with Graph Neural Network Encodings for Contextual Speech Recognition", Guangzhi Sun, Chao Zhang and Phil Woodland
      • "Investigating perception of spoken dialogue acceptability through surprisal", Sarenne Carrol Wallbridge, Catherine Lai and Peter Bell
    • ISCA Award for the Best Research Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2017-2021):
      • “On integrating a language model into neural machine translation”, Caglar Gulcehre, Orhan Firat, Kelvin Xu, Kyunghyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio, Volume 45, Pages 137-148, 2017
    • ISCA Award for the Best Review Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2017-2021):
      • “The third ‘CHiME’ speech separation and recognition challenge: Analysis and outcomes”, Jon Barker, Ricard Marxer, Emmanuel Vincent, and Shinji Watanabe Volume 46, Pages 605-626, 2017
    • ISCA Award for the Best Paper published in Speech Communication (2017-2021):
      • "The sound of confidence and doubt", Xiaoming Jiang and Marc D.Pell, Volume 88, Pages 106-126, 2017
  • Interspeech 2021, Brno
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold):
      • "Exploring the Potential of Lexical Paraphrases for Mitigating Noise-Induced Comprehension Errors", Anupama Chingacham, Vera Demberg and Dietrich Klakow
      • "StarGANv2-VC: A Diverse, Unsupervised, Non-parallel Framework for Natural-Sounding Voice Conversion", Yinghao Li, Ali Zare and Nima Mesgarani
      • "Optimally Encoding Inductive Biases into the Transformer Improves End-to-End Speech Translation", Piyush Vyas, Anastasia Kuznetsova and Donald Williamson
    • ISCA Award for the Best Research Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2016-2020):
      • “A segmental framework for fully-unsupervised large-vocabulary speech recognition”, Herman Kamper, Aren Jansen, Sharon Goldwater. Volume 46, Pages 154-174, 2017
    • ISCA Award for the Best Review Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2016-2020):
      • “An analysis of environment, microphone and data simulation mismatches in robust speech recognition”. Emmanuel Vincent, Shinji Watanabe, Aditya Arie Nugraha, Jon Barker, Ricard Marxer. Volume 46, Pages 535-557, 2017
  • Interspeech 2020, Shanghai
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold):
      • "Vector-Quantized Autoregressive Predictive Coding", Yu-An Chung, Hao Tang and James Glass
      • "FaceFilter: Audio-visual speech separation using still images", Soo-Whan Chung, Soyeon Choe, Joon Son Chung and Hong-Goo Kang
      • "Phonetic Accommodation of L2 German Speakers to the Virtual Language Learning Tutor Mirabella", Iona Gessinger, Bernd Möbius, Bistra Andreeva, Eran Raveh and Ingmar Steiner
    • ISCA Award for the Best Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2015-2019):
      • "Constant Q cepstral coefficients: A spoofing countermeasure for automatic speaker verification", Massimiliano Todisco, Héctor Delgado, and Nicholas Evans. Vol. 45, pp. 516-535, 2017.
    • ISCA Award for the Best Review Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2015-2019):
      • "A survey on sound source localization in robotics: From binaural to array processing methods", Sylvain Argentieri, Patrick Danès and Philippe Souères. Vol. 34, Issue 1, pp. 87-112, 2015
    • ISCA Award for the Best Paper published in Speech Communication (2015-2019):
      • "Improved mispronunciation detection with deep neural network trained acoustic models and transfer learning based logistic regression classifiers", Wenping Hu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, and Yong Wang. Vol 67, pp. 154-166, March 2015.
  • Interspeech 2019, Graz
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold):
      • "Adversarially Trained End-to-end Korean Singing Voice Synthesis System", Juheon Lee, Hyeong-Seok Choi, Chang-Bin Jeon, Junghyun Koo, Kyogu Lee
      • "Evaluating Near End Listening Enhancement Algorithms in Realistic Environments", Carol Chermaz, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Henning Schepker, Simon King
      • "Language Modeling with Deep Transformers", Kazuki Irie, Albert Zeyer, Ralf Schlueter, Hermann Ney
    • Interspeech Best Show and Tell Paper 2019:
      • "Off the cuff: Exploring extemporaneous speech delivery with TTS", Éva Székely, Gustav Eje Henter, Jonas Beskow, Joakim Gustafson
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2014-2018):
      • "A domain independent statistical methodology for dialog management in spoken dialog systems", David Griol, Zoraida Callejas, Ramón López Cózar, Giuseppe Riccardi, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 743-768, May 2014.
    • ISCA Award for the best review paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2014-2018):
      • "A survey on the application of recurrent neural networks to statistical language modeling", Wim De Mulder, Steven Bethard, Marie-Francis Moens, Vol. 30, Issue 1, pp. 61-98, March 2015.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2014-2018):
      • "Deep feature for text dependent speaker verification", Yuan Liu, Yasmin Qian, Nanxin Chen, Tianfan Fu, Ya Zhang, Kai Yu, Vol. 73, pp. 1-13, Oct. 2015.
  • Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold):
      • “Multi-Modal Data Augmentation for End-to-end ASR”, Adithya Renduchintala, Shuoyang Ding, Matthew Wiesner and Shinji Watanabe
      • “Detecting Depression with Audio/Text Sequence Modeling of Interviews”, Tuka Al Hanai, Mohammad Ghassemi and James Glass
      • “Joint Learning of Interactive Spoken Content Retrieval and Trainable User Simulator”, Pei-Hung Chung, Kuan Tung, Ching-Lun Taiand Hung-yi Lee
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2013-2017):
      • "Evaluating the intelligibility benefit of speech modifications in know noise condition”, Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Yannis Stylianou, Bastian Sauert, and Yan Tang, Speech Communication Vol 55, Issue 4, Pages 572-585, May 2013.
    • ISCA Award or the best paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2013-2017):
      • "The PASCAL CHiME speech separation and recognition challenge”, Jon Barker, Emmanuel Vincent, Ning Ma, Heidi Christensen and Phil Green, Computer Speech & Language, 27(3), pp. 621-633, May 2013.
      • “Automatic speaker age and gender recognition using acoustic and prosodic level information fusion”, Ming Li, Kyu J. Han and Shrikanth Narayanan, Computer Speech & Language, 27(1), pp. 151-167, January 2013.
  • Interspeech 2017, Stockholm:
    • "Vocal-Tract Model with Static Articulators: Lips, Teeth, Tongue, and More", Arai, T.
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper (students in bold):
      • "Hidden Markof Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery", Ebbers, J., Heymann, J., Drude, L., Glarner, Th., Haeb-Umbach, R., Raj, Bh.
      • "Residual Memory Networks in Language Modeling: Improving the Reputation of Feed-Forward Networks", Beneš, K., Baskar, M., Burget, L.
      • "VoxCeleb: A large-scale speaker identification dataset", Nagrani, A., Son Chung, J. and Zisserman, A.
    • Interspeech Best Show and Tell Paper 2017:
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2012-2015):
      • "Speech enhancement using a minimum mean-square error short-time spectral modulation magnitude estimator", Paliwal, K., Schwerin, B., Wójcicki, K., Speech Communication Vol 54(2), pp.282-305, Februrary 2012.
      • "Characterization of a typical vocal source excitation, temporal dynamics and prosody for objective measurement of dysarthric word intelligibility", Falk, T.H., Chan, W.-Y., Shein, F., Speech Communication Vol 54(5), pp.622-631, June 2012.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Computer Speech and Languae (2012-2016):
      • "Ranked WordNet graph for Sentiment Polarity Classification in Twitter", Montejo-Ráez, A., Martínez-Cámara, E., Martín-Valdivia, M.T., Urena-López, L.A., Computer Speech & Language, 28(1), pp.93-107, January 2014.
  • Interspeech 2016, San Francisco:
    • Interspeech Singing Synthesis Challenge Award 2016 (have a listen here) "Expressive Singing Synthesis Based on Unit Selection for the Singing Synthesis Challenge 2016",  Bonada, J., Umbert, M. Blaauw, M.
    • Interspeech Best Show and Tell Paper 2016, "An Engine for Online Video Search in Large Archives of the Holocaust Testimonies",  Stanislav, P., Švec, J., Ircing, P.
    • ISCA Award for Best Student Paper at Interspeech 2016 (students in bold)
      • Characterizing Vocal Tract Dynamics Across Speakers Using Real-Time MRI", Sorensen, T., Toutios, A., Goldstein, L., Narayanan, S.
      • The Rhythmic Constraint on Prosodic Boundaries in Mandarin Chinese Based on Corpora of Silent Reading and Speech Perception",Wei, L, Yuan, J. Li, Y, Xu, X, Liberman, M.
      • GlottDNN - A Full-Band Glottal Vocoder for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis", Airaksinen, M., Bollepalli, B., Juvela, L., Wu, Zh, King, S., Alku, P.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2013-2015) "Multitaper MFCC and PLP features for speaker verification using i-vectors.", Alam M.J., Kinnunen T., Kenny P., Ouellet P., O'Shaughnessy D.,  Speech Communication, vol 55, issue 2, pages 237-251, 2013
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2011-2015) "Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue.",  Gravano, A., & Hirschberg, J., Computer Speech & Language, 25(3), 601-634, 2011.
  • Interspeech 2015, Dresden:
    • Interspeech Best Show and Tell Papers 2015:
      • "A System for Automatic Broadcast News Summarization, Geolocation and Translation",  Bell, P., Lai, C., Llewellyn, C., Birch, A. and Sinclair, M.
      • "Remeetings - Get More Out of Meetings",  Faria, A. and Riedhammer, K.
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper at Interspeech 2015 (students in bold)
      • "Adapting Machine Translation Models towards Misrecognized Speech with Test-to-Speech Pronunciation Rules and Acoustic Confusability", Ruis, N., Gao, Q, Lewis, W., and Federico, M.
      • "A Time Delay Neural Network Architecture for Efficient Modeling of Lang Temporal Context", Peddinti, V., Povey, D., and Khudanpur, S.
      • "Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems Systems through Utterance Verfication", Ullmann, R., Rasipuram, R., Magimai-Dos, M., and Bourlard, H.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2012-2014) "Silent Speech Interfaces", Denby, B., Schultz, T., Honda, K., Hueber, T., Gilbert J.M., and Brumberg, J.S.,  Speech Communication, vol 52, issue 4, pages 270-287, 2010.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2010-2014) "Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems.", Thomson, B., Young, S.J., Computer Speech & Language, 24(4), 562-588, 2010.
  • Interspeech 2014, Singapore:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2014
      • Sandrine Brognaux, Benjamin Picart and Thomas Drugman, “Speech synthesis in various communicative situations: Impact of pronunciation variations”
      • Stephen Voinea, Chiyuan Zhang, Georgios Evangelopoulos, Lorenzo Rosasco and Tomaso Poggio, “Word-level Invariant Representations From Acoustic Waveforms”
      • Zoltán Tüske, Pavel Golik, Ralf Schlüter and Hermann Ney, “Acoustic Modeling with Deep Neural Networks Using Raw Time Signal for LVCSR”
    • Interspeech Best Show and Tell Paper 2014: "I2R Speech2Singing Perfects Everyone's Singing",  Minghui Dong, Yvonne Lee Siu Wa, Haizhou Li, Paul Chan, Xuejian Peng, Jochen Walter Ehnes, and Dongyan Huang,
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2011-2013): "Benefits and challenges of real-time uncertainty detection and adaptation in a spoken dialogue computer tutor", Forbes-Riley, K. and Litman, D.,  Speech Communication, vol 53, issue 9, pages 1115-1136, 2011
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2009 - 2013) "The subspace Gaussian mixture model—A structured model for speech recognition", Povey, D., Burget, L., Agarwal, M., Akyazi, P., Kai, F., Ghoshal, A., Glembek, O., Goel, N, Karafiat, M, Rastrow, A, Rose, R., Schwartz, P., Thomas, S., Computer Speech & Language, 25(2), 404-439, 2011.
  • Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2013 (students in bold)
      • "Speaker and Noise Independent Voice Activity Detection", François Germain, Dennis Sun and Gautham Mysore
      • "A two-step technique for MRI audio enhancement using dictionary learning and wavelet packet analysis", Colin Vaz, Vikram Ramanarayanan and Shrikanth Narayanan
      • "Using text and acoustic features to diagnose progressive aphasia and its subtypes", Kathleen Fraser, Frank Rudzicz and Elizabeth Rochon
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2008-2012, Joint ISCA/EURASIP Award): "Statistical mapping between articulatory movements and acoustic spectrum using a Gaussian mixture model", Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda, Speech Communication, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2008, Pages 215-227.
    • ISCA Award for the the best paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2008-2012): "The Hidden Information State model: A practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management", Young, S., Gasic, M., Keizer, S., Mairesse, F., Schatzmann, J., Thomson, B.; Yu, K., Computer Speech & Language , Volume 24(2), April 2010, Pages 150-174
  • Interspeech 2012, Portland, US:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2012 (students in bold)
      • "Discriminatively learning factorized finite state pronunciation models from dynamic Bayesian networks", Preethi Jyothi, Eric Fosler-Lussier and Karen Livescu
      • "MAP Estimation of Whole-Word Acoustic Models with Dictionary Priors", Keith Kintzley, Aren Jansen and Hynek Hermansky
      • "Age Estimation from Telephone Speech using i-vectors", Mohamad Hasan Bahari, Mitchell McLaren, Hugo Van hamme and David Van Leeuwen
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2009-2011, Joint ISCA/EURASIP Award): "PEAKS – A system for the automatic evaluation of voice and speech disorders", Maier A., Haderlein T., Eysholdt U., Rosanowski F., Batliner A., Schuster M., Nöth E, Speech Communication, Volume 51, Issue 5, May 2009, Pages 425-437.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Computer Speech and Language (2007-2011): "Discriminative n-gram language modeling",Roark, B., Saraclar, M., Collins, M., Computer Speech & Language , Volume 21(2), 2007, Pages 373-392
  • Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2011 (students in bold)
      • "Low-Frequency Bandwidth Extension of Telephone Speech Using Sinusoidal Synthesis and Gaussian Mixture Model", Sun-Ses2-P2 Speech Enhancement, Hannu Pulakka, Ulpu Remes, Santeri Yrttiaho, Kalle Palomäki, Mikko Kurimo, and Paavo Alku
      • "One-to-Many Voice Conversion Based on Tensor Representation of Speaker Space", Tue-Ses1-O3 Voice Conversion, Daisuke Saito, Keisuke Yamamoto, Nobuaki Minematsu, and Keikichi Hirose
      • "Modelling Novelty Preference in Word Learning", Tue-Ses2-O2 First Language Acquisition, Maarten Versteegh, Louis ten Bosch, and Lou Boves
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2006-2010, Joint ISCA/EURASIP Award): "Data Driven Emotion Conversion in Spoken English", Zeynep Inanoglu and Steve Young, Volume 51, 2009, pp. 268-283
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Computer Speech and Language (2006-2010): "Support Vector Machine for Speaker and Language Recognition", W. M. Campbell, J. P. Campbell, D. A. Reynolds, E. Singer, and P. A. Torres-Carrasquillo, Volume 20, Issue 2-3, 2006, pp. 210-229
  • Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2010 (students in bold)
      • "Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the Emergence of Robust Fricative Contrasts in English- and Japanese-Acquiring Children", Jeffrey J. Holliday, Mary E. Beckman, and Chanelle Mays
      • "Using Non-Native Error Patterns to Improve Pronunciation Verification" Mon-Ses3-P3 Language Learning", Joost van Doremalen, Catia Cucchiarini, and Helmer Strik
      • "Reliable Tracking Based on Speech Sample Salience of Vocal Cycle Length Perturbations", Christophe Mertens, Francis Grenez, Lise Crevier-Buchman, and Jean Schoentgen
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2007-2009): "Joint-sequence models for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion", Maximilian Bisani, Hermann Ney. Volume 50, Issue 5, May 2008, pp. 434-451.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Computer Speech and Language (2005-2009) "Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems", J.D. Williams, Steve Young, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 393-422
  • Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2009 (students in bold)
      • "Sequencing of Articulatory Gestures using Cost Optimization", Juraj Simko, F. Cummins.
      • "A Deterministic plus Stochastic Model of the Residual Signal for Improved Parametric Speech Synthesis" Thomas Drugman G. Wilfart, T.Dutoit
      • "On the Semi-Supervised Learning of Multi-Layered Perceptrons" Jonathan Malkin, Amarnag Subramanya, J. Bilmes.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal (2006-2008): "Automatic speech recognition and speech variability: A Review", R. De Mori, O. Deroo, S. Dupont, T. Erbes, D. Jouvet, L. Fissore, P. Laface, A. Mertins, C. Ris, R. Rose, V. Tyagi, and C. Wellekens, Volume 49, Issues 10-11, October-November 2007 Pages 763-786
  • Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2008 (students in bold)
      • "On the equivalence of gaussian and Log-linear HMMS", Georg Heigold, Lehnen, P., Schlueter, R., and Ney, H.
      • "Combining Continuous Progressive Model Adaptation and Factor Analysis for Speaker Verification" Mitchell McLaren, Matrouf, D., Vogt R. and Bonastre, J.
      • "Effect of Intonational Phrase Boundaries on Pitch-Accented Syllables > in American English" Yen-Liang Shue, Shuttuck-Hufnagel, S., Iseli, M., Jun S., Veilleux N., and Alwan, A.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal (2005-2007):"Decoding speech in the presence of other sources", J.P. Barker, M.P. Cooke and D.P.W. Ellis, Volume 45, issue 1, January 2005, Pages 5-25
  • Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2007 (students in bold)
      • "Speech Recognition Techniques for a Sign Language Recognition System", Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Thomas Deselaers, Morteza Zahedi, and Hermann Ney
      • "An Empirical Investigation of the Nonuniqueness in the Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping, Chao Qin, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal (2004-2006): "Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding", G. Tur, D. Hakkani-Tur, and R. Schapire, Volume 45, issue 2, February 2005 Pages 171-186
  • Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, US:
    • Best Student Papers Award (students in bold)
      • "Detecting Question-Bearing Turns in Spoken Tutorial Dialogues", Jackson Liscombe, Jennifer J. Venditti, Julia Hirschberg
      • "Soft Margin Estimation of Hidden Markov Model Parameters", Jinyu Li, Ming Yuan and Chin-Hui Lee
      • "Acoustic cues for the classification of regular and irregular phonation", Kushan Surana and Janet Slifka
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal during 2003-2005: "Statistical language model adaptation: review and perspectives", Jerome Bellegarda, Volume 42, issue 1, January 2004, Pages 83-108.
  • Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal:
    • Best Student Paper Award (student in bold): "On the Integration of Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation", E. Matusov, S. Kanthak and H. Ney.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal (2002-2004): "Multi-class composite N-gram language model", Hirofumi Yamamoto, Shuntaro Isogai and Yoshinori Sagisaka, Speech Communication, Volume 41, Issues 2-3, October 2003, Pages 369-379.
  • Interspeech 2004, Jeju, Korea:
    • Best Student Paper Award (student in bold): "Hot Discussion or Frosty Dialogue? Towards a Temperature Metric for Conversational Interactivity", Peter Reichl and Florian Hammer.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal (2002-2003): "The LIMSI Broadcast News Transcription System", J. L. Gauvin, L. Lamel and G. Adda, Volume 37, Issues 1-2, June 2002, Pages 89-108.
  • Eurospeech'03, Geneva, Switzerland:
    • Best Student Paper Award (student in bold): "CRA-BF: A Novel Combined Fixed/Adaptive Beamforming for Robust Speech Recognition in Real Car Environments", Xianxian Zhang and John H. L. Hansen.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication (2001-2002): "The auditory organization of speech and other sources in listeners and computational models", Martin Cooke and Daniel P. W. Ellis. Speech Communication, Vol. 35, pp. 141-177, 2001.
  • ICSLP'02, Denver, US:
    • Best Student Paper Award (student in bold): "Motor Specifications of a Baby Robot via the Analysis of Infants' Vocalizations", J. Serkhaneet al.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communication (2000-2001): "Language-independent and language-adaptive acoustic modeling for speech recognition", Tanja Schultz and Alex Waibel:, vol.35 nos.1-2, 2001
  • Eurospeech'01, Aalborg, Denmark:
    • ISCA Award for the best student paper of Eurospeech 2001 addressing original speech communication topics (student in bold): "Split-band Perceptual Harmonic Cepstral Coefficients as Acoustic Features for Speech Recognition", Liang Gu and Kenneth Rose.
    • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Speech Communications (1998-2000): "Network Optimizations for Large-Vobabulary Speech Recognition", Mehryar Mohri and Michael Riley:, Speech Communication, Vol. 28, No 1, pp. 1-12 (1999).
  • Eurospeech'99, Budapest, Hungary:
    • Best Student Paper Award (student in bold) : "Unsupervised training of a speech recognizer: recent experiments", Thomas Kemp, Alex Waibel
    • ELSNET prize for the "best student paper addressing integration of language and speech" (student in bold): "Combining nonlocal, syntactic and n-gram dependencies in language modeling", Jun Wu and Sanjeev Khudanpur
    • ELRA prize for the "best student paper addressing issues related to speech and natural language ressources" (student in bold): "Multi-level decision trees for static and dynamic pronunciation models", Eric Fosler-Lussier
  • Eurospeech'97, Rhodes, Greece:
    • ELSNET prize for the "best student paper addressing integration of language and speech": "Subword unit representations for spoken document retrieval", Kenney Ng and Victor W. Zue,
    • ELRA prize for the "best student paper addressing issues related to speech and natural language ressources" (student in bold): "Statistical language modeling using the CMU-Cambridge toolkit", Philip Clarkson and Ronald Rosenfeld.


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