$122,157+
in travel grants, plus PhD fellowships covering tuition and stipends
Speech research fellowships and travel grants
PhD fellowships and conference travel grants for speech and voice AI research — ISCA Interspeech grants, IEEE SPS ICASSP grants, Google and Apple fellowships.
ISCA / Interspeech travel grants
ISCA · Grants to attend Interspeech, with amounts based on your region (more for under-represented regions).
Travel grantConference
€500–€2,500
Opens each spring (Interspeech 2027)
IEEE Signal Processing Society travel grants
IEEE Signal Processing Society · Travel support to present at ICASSP, paid as a reimbursement after the conference.
Travel grantConference
Up to $1,500
Next window: ICASSP 2027
Google PhD Fellowship
Google · Up to two years of tuition, fees and a stipend for PhD students — speech processing is a listed research area.
PhDFellowship
Tuition + stipend
Annual cycle
Apple Scholars in AI/ML
Apple · Two years of PhD funding, an internship opportunity and mentorship from an Apple researcher — speech is a listed area.
PhDFellowship
2 years funding
Annual — by university nomination
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (North America)
Qualcomm · Qualcomm runs a competition for teams of two PhD students at 25 US and Canadian universities, and "Speech AI, ASR, TTS, and voice user interfaces" is a listed area of interest.
IndustryTeam awardSpeech AI
$50,000
3 days left
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
NVIDIA · NVIDIA funds PhD research in accelerated computing, and "AI — Language Models and Speech" is one of its listed research areas.
IndustryPhDSpeech & LLMs
Up to $60,000
14 days left
IEEE Signal Processing Society Scholarship Program
IEEE Signal Processing Society · IEEE SPS gives multi-year scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students who are committed to signal processing education and careers.
Signal processingIEEEMulti-year
Up to $7,000
Annual cycle: applications open 1 March – 30 June
EURASIP Student Travel Grants for EUSIPCO
European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) · EURASIP offers travel grants to PhD students with an accepted paper at EUSIPCO, its flagship signal processing conference.
Signal processingEuropeConference travel
Up to €750
Offered for each EUSIPCO; apply within one month of paper acceptance
About speech research fellowships and travel grants
Funding for speech research comes in two kinds: travel grants that help you present a paper, and fellowships that fund your PhD. ISCA offers travel grants to attend Interspeech, with larger amounts for students from under-represented regions, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society reimburses travel for student members presenting at ICASSP. For longer-term funding, the Google PhD Fellowship and Apple Scholars in AI/ML both list speech as a research area. Most of these run on an annual cycle, so note when each one opens.
Fund my research — FAQ
Can I get travel funding to present at Interspeech or ICASSP?+
Yes. ISCA offers Interspeech travel grants of roughly €500–€2,500 depending on your region, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society gives student members up to $1,500 to present at ICASSP, paid as a reimbursement.
Which PhD fellowships fund speech research?+
The Google PhD Fellowship and Apple Scholars in AI/ML both list speech as a research area. Apple Scholars is by university nomination.