| Alex Acero |
| Abeer Alwan |
| Futoshi Asano |
| Michiel Bacchiani |
| Srinivas Bangalore |
| Jeff Bilmes |
| Alan Black* |
| Bill Byrne |
| Ciprian Chelba |
| Israel Cohen |
| Mike Davies |
| Renato De Mori |
| Thierry Dutoit |
| Eric Fosler-Lussier |
| Mazin Gilbert |
| Dilek Hakkani-Tür |
| John Hansen* |
| Mary Harper |
| Timothy J. Hazen |
| Michael Johnston |
| Jean-Claude Junqua |
| Peter Kabal* |
| Hong-Goo Kang |
| Tatsuya Kawahara* |
| Hisashi Kawai |
| Roland Kuhn |
| Esther Levin |
| Brian Mak |
| Shoji Makino |
| Jean-Pierre Martens |
| Rainer Martin |
| Tomoko Matsui |
| Helen Meng* |
| Nikki Mirghafori |
| Roger Moore |
| Shrikanth Narayanan* |
| Maurizio Omologo |
| Mari Ostendorf |
| Sarangarajan Parthasarathy* |
| Michael Picheny |
| Roberto Pieraccini* |
| Ravi Ramachandran |
| Guiseppe Riccardi |
| Brian Roark |
| Rick Rose |
| Ananth Sankar |
| Gerald Schuller |
| Olivier Siohan |
| Arun Surendran |
| Isabel Trancoso |
| Gokhan Tur |
| Christian Wellekens |
| Bayya Yegnanarayana |
| Yunxin Zhao* |
| Geoffrey Zweig* |
| * denotes Area Chair Coordinator |