INTERSPEECH 2029
by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
ISCA's flagship speech science and technology conference comes to Athens
About This Event
INTERSPEECH 2029 is the annual flagship conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), set for Athens, Greece, from 16 to 20 September 2029. ISCA's upcoming-conferences page names Yannis Stylianou and Vassilis Katsouros as its chairs. ISCA describes Interspeech as the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing, covering speech recognition and synthesis, phonetics and phonology, signal processing, prosody and speech databases. The association reports more than 2,400 members from over 64 countries, and its archive holds over 36,000 papers. The 2029 edition comes after São Paulo (2027) and San Antonio (2028). Venue, call for papers and registration fees are not published yet.
At a Glance
- Date
- September 16–20, 2029
- Location
- Athens, Greece
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
- Added
- Oct 15, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓Speech and audio ML researchers
- ✓Voice AI and conversational AI engineering leads
- ✓Heads of AI research labs
- ✓Linguists and phoneticians
- ✓PhD students and postdocs in speech processing
- ✓Product leaders for voice assistants and speech APIs
Why Attend
For a CTO or head of AI shipping voice products, Interspeech is where the speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken-dialogue research you will license or rebuild in two years gets presented first. It is also a hiring venue for the small pool of speech ML researchers and PhD graduates. Teams that need a recruiting or sponsorship slot in Athens can budget for it now, since ISCA has fixed the city and dates well before the call for papers.
Event Features
- ✓Scientific area: speech technology, including coding, synthesis and recognition
- ✓Scientific area: sound and signal processing
- ✓Scientific area: linguistics, including psycholinguistics, articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics, and phonology
- ✓Scientific area: prosody, speech databases and toolkits
- ✓ISCA Special Interest Groups on speech synthesis, speech prosody, machine learning and child-computer interaction
What Makes This Unique
- ★Run by ISCA, the scientific body for speech communication, with 2,400+ members from 64+ countries
- ★Covers the full speech stack in one programme, from phonetics and linguistics to recognition, synthesis and signal processing
- ★Dates and host city were published nearly three years ahead, which gives authors and sponsors unusual planning lead time
- ★Specialist ISCA groups (speech synthesis, speech prosody, machine learning, child-computer interaction) run their work alongside the conference series
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
Registration fees for INTERSPEECH 2029 are not published. ISCA has announced only the city, dates and chairs (checked 15 October 2026); fees usually appear with the conference website about a year out.
Organizer
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
isca-speech.org/Frequently Asked
- When is INTERSPEECH 2029?
- INTERSPEECH 2029 takes place September 16–20, 2029 in Athens, Greece.
- Where is INTERSPEECH 2029 held?
- INTERSPEECH 2029 is held in Athens, Greece. The event format is in-person.
- How much does INTERSPEECH 2029 cost?
- INTERSPEECH 2029 is paid. Registration fees for INTERSPEECH 2029 are not published. ISCA has announced only the city, dates and chairs (checked 15 October 2026); fees usually appear with the conference website about a year out.
- Who should attend INTERSPEECH 2029?
- INTERSPEECH 2029 is aimed at Speech and audio ML researchers, Voice AI and conversational AI engineering leads, Heads of AI research labs, Linguists and phoneticians, PhD students and postdocs in speech processing, Product leaders for voice assistants and speech APIs.
- What topics does INTERSPEECH 2029 cover?
- INTERSPEECH 2029 covers Automatic speech recognition, Speech synthesis and text-to-speech, Spoken dialogue and conversational AI, Speaker recognition, Phonetics, phonology and prosody, Speech signal processing and coding, Machine learning for speech, Speech databases and toolkits.
Sources
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