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 respresented as a symposium at ICSLP '96 in Philadelphia, as a satellite conference of Eurospeech '97 in Rhodes, and as a satellite conference of ICSLP '98 in Sydney.
It is fast becoming a major areas in speech science, attracting scientists from various backgrounds.