1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

• Ioana Vasilescu, LISN CNRS / Paris-Saclay University
• Prasanta Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
• Hongwei Ding, Shanghai Jiao Tong University / School of Foreign Languages
• Katalin Mády, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics

2. Phonetics, Phonology and Prosody

• Margaret (Meg) Zellers, Kiel University
• Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University
• Lehlohonolo Mohasi, National University of Lesotho

3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language

• Khiet Truong, University of Twente
• Plinio Barbosa, University of Campinas
• Bogdan Ludusan, Bielefeld University
• Éva Székely, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

4. Speaker and Language Identification

• Alicia Lozano-Diez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• Lukáš Burget, Brno University of Technology
• Erica Cooper, National Institute of Informatics
• Moses Ekpenyong, University of Uyo
• University of Uyo, EURECOM

5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals

• Richard (Rick) Rose, Google
• Mathew Magimai Doss, Idiap Research Institute
• Catherine Watson, University of Auckland
• Christophe d’Alessandro, CNRS – Sorbonne Université
• Doroteo Toledano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Zeyu Jin, Adobe Research
• Maryam Al Dabel, University of Hafr Al Batin

6. Speech Coding and Enhancement

• Ina Kodrasi, Idiap Research Institute
• Junfeng Li, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Mariem Bouafif, Université de Tunis El Manar University
• Rainer Martin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Simone Graetzer, University of Salford / UK Acoustics Network Plus

7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation

• Zhenhua Ling, University of Science and Technology of China
• Eva Navas, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
• Esther Klabbers, ReadSpeaker
• Javier Latorre, Apple
• Yao Qian, Microsoft
• Andrew Breen, Amazon
• Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
• Rob Clark, Google

8. Speech Recognition – Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, and Adaptation

• Penny Karanasou, Amazon
• Martin Karafiat, Brno University of Technology
• Yanmin Qian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Néstor Becerra Yoma, University of Chile
• Rita Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
• Erfan Loweimi, University of Cambridge
• Takuya Yoshioka, Microsoft
• Hung-yi Lee, National Taiwan University

9. Speech Recognition – Architecture Search, and Linguistic Components

• Preethi Jyothi, Preethi Jyothi
• Mikko Kurimo, Aalto University
• Anton Ragni, Anton Ragni
• Shinji Watanabe, CMU

10. Speech Recognition – Technologies and Systems for New Applications

• Jan (Yenda) Trmal, Johns Hopkins University
• Daniele Falavigna, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
• Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Aculab

11. Spoken dialog systems and conversational analysis

• Joakim Gustafson, KTH
• Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University
• Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Amazon Alexa AI

12. Spoken Language Processing: Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Resources and Evaluation

• Sakriani Sakti, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
• Florian Metze, Florian Metze
• Tanja Schultz, Universität Bremen
• Jan Niehues, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

13. Speech, voice, and hearing disorders

• Ning Ma, University of Sheffield
• Vijayalakshmi (Viji) Parthasarathy, SSN College of Engineering
• Juan Rafael (Rafa) Orozco-Arroyave, University of Antioquia

14. Special sessions

• Jennifer Williams, University of Southampton
• Mark Gales, University of Cambridge

Special Areas

• Antoine Serrurier, ISCA / University Hospital RWTH Aachen
• Martin Cooke, Ikerbasque (Basque Science Foundation)
• Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Paderborn University
• Hao Tang, University of Edinburgh
• Marc Delcroix, NTT
• Jean-François (JF) Bonastre, Inria D&S / Avignon University
• Tara Sainath, Google
• Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland