This is the highest award given by ISCA, honouring an individual each year who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. Professor Moore has been awarded this Medal for his contributions to spoken language based interaction and uncovering its underlying mechanisms.
Professor Moore, Chair of Spoken Language Processing and Head of the Speech & Hearing Research Group (SpandH) in the School of Computer Science, said: "I’m incredibly honoured (and rather humbled) by this prestigious award. It’s an immense pleasure to discover that my research endeavours over several decades have been appreciated and now formally recognised by my peers. I’ve been particularly touched by the many messages of congratulations I’ve received from colleagues old and new around the world. I extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who was involved in my nomination."
Roger will be presented with the Medal at the 2025 INTERSPEECH conference taking place in August in Rotterdam, where he will be giving the opening Keynote talk.
The theme of Interspeech 2025 is "Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology", and aims to celebrate and incorporate the vast speech diversity both within and between individuals, as well as within and between languages. This theme emphasizes diversity as a source of richness and information, contributing to the development of fairer, more robust, and personalized speech technology applications and more accurate theories of human speech processing. By embracing this diversity, we can create theories and technologies that are inclusive of everyone, ensuring that speech science and technology benefit all individuals and communities.