ASSTA Award Winners and Conference Reports
ASSTA manages a number of grant programs which aim to provide support to members in their research in Speech Science and Technology.
Research Event Awards
2026 - Pacific Voices 2026: Speech Science and Technology for Languages of the Pacific Ocean - Dr Jesin James, Speech Research @ UoA Group, University of Auckland
ASSTA Conference Travel Awards
2026 - Adaptive Per-Channel Energy Normalization Front-End for Robust Audio Signal Processing - Hanyu Meng, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Qiquan Zhang, Haizhou Li
2025 - Introducing EMOPARKNZ: the Emotional Speech Database from New Zealand English Speakers with Parkinson’s Disease - Itay Ben-Dom, Catherine I. Watson, Clare M. McCann
2026 - Individual differences in use of prosodic and lexical information in implicit prosody - Joy Mills & Sasha Calhoun
2025 - Effect of noise floor in room impulse response on speech perception under spherical harmonics-based spatial sound reproduction - Yunqi C. Zhang, Dhruv Jagmohan, Hong Kit Li, C.T. Justine Hui, Yusuke Hioka
ASSTA Special Initiative Awards
2026 - Young Female* Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) - Tuende Szalay (University of Sydney); Ayushi Pandey (Karya.in, India); Leda Sari (Otter.AI, USA); Ariadna Sanchez (University of Edinburgh,UK); Iona Gessinger (Saarland University, Germany); Johannah O'Mahony (Whispp, The Netherlands); Poppy Welch (University of Southampton, UK); Sarenne Wallbridge (UK AI Security Institute); Snigdha Banik (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Spyretta Leivaditi (Unicorn Labs, The Netherlands) ; Yuanyuan Zhang (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
ASSTA Award Winners and Conference Reports before 2024
ASSTA Conference Travel Awards
2023