Professor Helen Meng was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the International Speech Communications Association (ISCA) in May 2015. ISCA promotes, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology. ISCA is aimed at all persons and institutions interested in fundamental research and technological development that aims at describing, explaining and reproducing the various aspects of human communication by speech, that covers, without assuming this enumeration to be exhaustive, phonetics, linguistics, computer speech recognition and synthesis, speech compression, speaker recognition, aids to medical diagnosis of voice pathologies. ISCA funds its elected Distinguished Lecturers to travel to different parts of the world to give lectures to help promote research activities on speech science and technologies.