We are pleased to announce the 7th Workshop on the history of speech communication research (HSCR), which will take place in Paris, France from 10th to 12th September 2025.

After the launch in 2015 in Dresden, followed by Helsinki (2017), Vienna (2019), Prague (2021), Porto (2022), and Budapest (2024), this 7th edition of the workshop will be organized by members of the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (CNRS & Sorbonne Nouvelle) and CLESTHIA Laboratory (Sorbonne Nouvelle).

HSCR provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of the history of research on speech and speech communication. A special focus of this edition will be on geographical and disciplinary exchanges within and beyond the field of speech communication. 

The keynote speakers will be Jacques Durand (CLLE, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) & Chantal Lyche (University of Oslo), and Pavel Šturm (Charles University in Prague).

Advances in our field have, from its beginning, been stimulated by intensive exchanges within the community through international exchanges between scholars and students, the development of international societies, congresses and journals, but also through fruitful transfers of knowledge, approaches, technology and instrumentation between disciplines. 

Contributions on any such topic will be welcome, as well as on any topics related to the historical aspects of speech communication research.

Contributions must not be longer than 10 pages (references included) and follow the guidelines provided. The proceedings will be published in the book series Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden and also stored electronically in the ISCA archive.