Forthcoming: Developments in the modeling of speech prosody

Plínio A. Barbosa obtained his PhD degree in 1994 by the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He is full professor of the Department of Linguistics at the State University of Campinas, Brazil, and is responsible for the Speech Prosody Studies and the Forensic Phonetic Studies Groups, both formed by a team of researchers and students working on (dynamical) analysis and modelling of speech prosody. He has published five books on Speech rhythm, Experimental phonetics, Prosody, Speech Sciences and Experimental prosody. His interests are directed to experimental phonetics, speech rhythm and intonation, dynamical systems theory, forensic phonetics, and acoustic correlates of literary texts interpretations. He is Editor of the Journal of Speech Sciences, a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Speech Technology, Phonetica, Journal of Phonetics. He is current member of the following associations: IPA, ISCA and a member of the board of the ISCA Speech Prosody SIG.

Nick Campbell is Professor and Fellow Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin) Ireland . He is credited with over 10 thousand citations for more than 500 peer-reviewed publications, currently with an h-index of 50 and an i110 index of 175. His research includes studies on emotional speech, speech databases, and speech synthesis. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs, IBM UK Scientific Centre and Yorktown Heights labs, as well as ATR and NiCT in Japan, where he currently resides. His expertise is mainly on spoken interaction, with a focus on machine-understanding of natural human conversational speech. His third most cited reference is a patent for concatenative speech synthesis

Dafydd Gibbon is emeritus Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, Bielefeld University, Germany, specialising in computational linguistics and documentation of endangered languages, with particular interests in computational lexicography and in the acoustic analysis of the rhythms and melodies of speech. He has published numerous articles on prosody, phonology and phonetics, particularly of Niger-Congo and Sino-Tibetan languages, and in other areas of linguistics, as well as two handbooks on techniques and standards in speech technology as chief editor and as co-editor of a third, on technical communication. For his life’s work in services to language documentation, technology and education in West Africa he was appointed Officier de l'ordre du mérite ivoirien (Officer of the Ivory Coast Order of Merit) and received the Silver Jubilee Award of the Language Association of Nigeria. For services to Polish Linguistics and Phonetics he was inducted as Honorary Member of the Polish Phonetics Society and received the Bronze Medal for Lifetime Achievement from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. In his spare time he is an amateur radio operator and gardener, and composes meditative guitar music.

Keikichi Hirose received the Ph. D. degree in electronic engineering in 1977 from the University of Tokyo. He was a professor of the University of Tokyo from 1994.  He retired in 2015, and received Professor of Emeritus title. From March 1987 to January 1988, he was Visiting Scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.  He served as a project professor at National Institute of Informatics during June 2019 - March 2023.  He has been engaged in a wide range of research on spoken language processing, including analysis, synthesis, recognition, dialogue systems, and computer-assisted language learning.  From 2000 to 2004, he was Principal Investigator of the national project “Realization of advanced spoken language information processing utilizing prosodic features.”  He served as the general chair for INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Japan.  Since 2010, he served as the Chair of ISCA SProSIG until 2018.  Also, he served as a board member of ISCA during 2009-2017. He is a member of International Advisory Council from January 2021.  He received ISCA fellow grade in 2018.  He became an honorary member, Polish Phonetic Association, in 2013.  For his long-term and remarkable contribution to spoken language processing, he received Achievement Award from Acoustical Society of Japan in 2020.  In 2015, he was honored as a Named Person of Merit in Science and Technology by the Mayor of Tokyo.　

Daniel Hirst has been working on speech prosody and phonology for over fifty years, (PhD 1974, Habilitation thesis 1987)). Currently Emeritus Research Director at CNRS in Aix-en-Provence, France, he has published numerous articles, chapters and books. Speech Prosody. From Acoustics to Interpretation was published in September 2024 (Springer). He has developed software for the automatic analysis of speech prosody (Momel, Intsint, ProZed), implemented as plugins for the Praat software, and all freely available from the ResearchGate website. In 2000 he founded SProSIG, (Speech Prosody Special Interest Group) affiliated to both ISCA and the IPA and in 2002 he organised the first International Conference on Speech Prosody, in Aix en Provence. The Conference has since been held regularly every two years throughout the world. In 2013 he was elected fellow of ISCA, in 2014 member of the Permanent Council for the Organisation of ICPhS and in 2018 ISCA distinguished lecturer (2018-2019).