Singh Named 2026 ISCA Fellow

LTI Research Professor Rita Singh honored for advancements in voice forensics and human voice profiling

Rita Singh, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI), has been named to the 2026 class of Fellows of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The announcement was made in July, and Singh will be formally conferred with the title at Interspeech 2026, ISCA's flagship conference, taking place September 28–October 1 in Sydney, Australia.

Singh was cited for "pioneering advancements in human voice profiling and computational voice forensics." Her research focuses on extracting information encoded in the human voice, including physiological, psychological, and environmental characteristics, and applying it to forensic and security applications.

The ISCA Fellow program recognizes members who have made outstanding scientific or technical contributions to the field of speech communication, or who have provided significant sustained service to the association. The number of Fellows named in a given year is capped at roughly one-third of one percent of ISCA's total membership. Singh is one of eight researchers named to the 2026 class.

Singh was previously named an ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2023–2025, an outreach role that supports lecture tours in regions where the speech research field is less established. She joins LTI colleague Bhiksha Raj, who was named an ISCA Fellow in 2024, among the LTI faculty recognized by the association.