Auditory-visual speech production and perception by human and machine is an interdisciplinary and cross linguistic field which has attracted speech scientists, cognitive psychologists, phoneticians, computational engineers, and researchers in language learning studies.

Since the inagural workshop in Bonas in 1995, Auditory-Visual Speech Processing has been represented as a symposium at ICSLP '96 in Philadelphia, as a satellite conference of Eurospeech '97 in Rhodes, a satellite conference of ICSLP '98 in Sydney, and a satellite conference of ICPhS 1999, and now will be a satellite conference of Eurospeech 2001.

It is fast becoming a major areas in speech science, attracting scientists from various backgrounds.