ASSTA History
Milestones of ASSTA
- 1972: Group of people interested in 'Speech Processing by Computer' meet at a computing conference
- 1972-78: Directory of people publicised through Linguistic Society of Australia and Australian Computer Society conferences
- 1978: Australian Speech Research Association (ASRA) launched at a 2-day Speech Research workshop Canberra
- 1984: ASRA newsletter directory listed 25 research groups
- 1984: After a 2-day 'Speech Normalisation' workshop in Canberra, John Clark and Bruce Millar propose an Australian Speech Research Conference
- 1986: First Speech Science and Technology conference (SST'86) held in Canberra
- 1988: ASSTA Inc formed in December at the second SST conference (SST'88)
- 1998: ASSTA hosts the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing in Sydney
- 2005: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association becomes Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association
- 2006: SST held outside Australia for the first time, in Auckland, New Zealand
- 2008: Reciprocal Membership deal between ASSTA and ISCA established
- 2008: ASSTA hosts Interspeech in Brisbane
- 2019: ASSTA hosts ICPHS2019 in Melbourne
- 2023: ASSTA wins bid to host Interspeech 2026 in Sydney
Prof. J. Bruce Millar wrote a personal reflection on the the formation of ASSTA and its early days.