AVISA Website

AVISA (the Auditory-VIsual Speech Association), which was the second ISCA Special Interest Group (SIG) to form, starting its official business on December 5, 1998, at the AVSP'98 (Auditory Visual Speech Processing) meeting in Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia.
AVISA was first conceived by Christian Benoît, who wanted to see the auditory-visual speech community come together in a more formal way. Before his untimely death, Christian drafted a proposal to create AVISA. We are proud to dedicate this SIG to Christian's memory.

Earlier editions of AVSP Conference proceedings can be found here


Latest News


►►► January 20, 2021

The call for the 11th Christian Benoît Award is now out. The deadline for this call is May 14, 2021. All the details are here.

►►► January 20, 2021

The winner of the 10th Christian Benoît Award (2019) is Sankar Mukherjee from Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (CTNSC), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Ferrara, Italy

November 29, 2018

The deadline of the tenth Christian Benoît award is May 15, 2019. All the details are here.

October 11, 2018

The next AVSP 2019 conference will be organized in Melbourne, Australia, August 10, 11, 2019

Mars 1, 2018

The winner of the Ninth Christian Benoît Award (2017) is Marcin Włodarczak from Linguistic dpt,. Stockholm University, Sweden

June 9, 2017

The deadline of the Ninth Christian Benoît Award has been extended to June 18, 2017. All the details are here.

March 24, 2017

The call for the Ninth Christian Benoît Award is now out. The deadline for this call is May 29, 2017. All the details are here.

November 22, 2016

The next AVSP 2017 conference will be organized in Stockholm, Sweden, August 25, 26, 2017.

January 18, 2016

The plans for an AVSP conference after InterSpeech 2016 have fallen through; so unfortunately there will be no AVSP conference this year.
However, there will be an Interspeech 2016 Special Session, entitled: "Auditory-visual expressive speech and gesture in humans and machines" so, at least there will be some AV-themed conference activities this year.

October 6, 2015

The proceedings of FAAVSP (AVSP2015) is freely available on ISCA-Archive. (Link to all the past AVSP conference can be found here)

September 15, 2015

FAAVSP : FAA/AVSP 2015 conference has been orgnaized in Vienna, Austria - 11-13 September, 2015.

May 20, 2015

Deadline extension: Prix Christian Benoît
The deadline for the Eighth Christian Benoît Award isJune 8, 2015. The award is supported by the International Speech Communication Association, the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée and GIPSA-lab
Here is the detailed call.

February 25, 2015

Prix Christian Benoît The deadline for the Eighth Christian Benoît Award is May 18, 2015. The award is supported by the International Speech Communication Association, the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée and GIPSA-lab
Here is the detailed call.

November 27, 2014

The next AVSP 2015 conference will be orgnaized in Vienna, Austria - 11-13 September, 2015, as a satellite event of Interspeech 2015.
It is a joint conference that brings together The International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA) and The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP)

September 17, 2014

Next AVSP 2015 conference will be orgnaized in Vienna, Austria, as a satellite event of Interspeech 2015.
More information will be added soon.

July 17, 2013

The nomination to the Executive board is now closed.

July 10, 2013

The nomination to the Executive board is now open.

April 22, 2013

The 7th Christian Benoît Award has been extended to May 20, 2013.
The details of the call can be found here.

April 20, 2013

The deadline of AVSP conference (AVSP2013) is approaching.
The submission paper's deadline is on May 5, 2013.

Jul 16, 2012

The next AVSP conference (AVSP2013) will be organized in Annecy, France - 29th august - 1st september 2013.

Sept 16, 2011

We are in the process of updating the AVISA website. More information will be added in the next days.