Introduction to the speech communication technical committee

Abstract

The Speech Communication technical committee is one of the oldest and largest in the Acoustical Society of America. Our work covers three broad areas: speech production, speech perception, and computer speech processing. Studies presented at our meetings and in our journal cover languages spoken all over the world, including widely spoken languages like Mandarin and Spanish, and less widely spoken languages like Zoque and Tlingit. We study individuals across the lifespan, including both typical speakers and ones with speech, language, and hearing impairments. This brief presentation will highlight three recent presentations given at the society. These illustrate the breadth of our work, our centrality in the ASA, and our connections to the other technical committees.