From the site: "The main goal of the Association is 'to promote in Italy Speech Communication Science and Technology, both in the industrial and Academic areas', covering all the aspects of Speech Communication (Acoustics, Phonetics, Phonology, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, etc.)." Note: a joint registration with ISCA and AISV is possible at a reduced rate. Please register at the AISV website.