From a shared scientific challenge to a global society
ISVB was created from the collaboration of Bridge2AI-Voice and eVoiceNet—and from a conviction that voice can transform health only when science, standards, and people move forward together.
The idea behind ISVB
A promising field needed a permanent home.
Across medicine, speech science, engineering, artificial intelligence, ethics, and public health, researchers were discovering that the human voice carries meaningful information about health. Yet the field remained distributed across disciplines, institutions, and continents.
The International Society for Vocal Biomarkers was established in 2026 to bring those communities into one professional home capable of connecting discovery to validation, shared standards, responsible innovation, and clinical impact.
The foundations of a global movement
North America · Bridge2AI-Voice
Building the data and research foundation
Supported by the NIH Common Fund’s Bridge2AI program, Bridge2AI-Voice brought together a multi-institutional team to create an ethically sourced, diverse, AI-ready voice dataset linked with clinical and multimodal health information.
Its work advanced shared data protocols, privacy-aware infrastructure, workforce development, and research across voice, neurological, mood, respiratory, and pediatric conditions—demonstrating what coordinated team science could make possible.
Europe · eVoiceNet
Connecting disciplines across Europe
eVoiceNet, COST Action CA24128, formed a multidisciplinary European network spanning clinicians, AI experts, voice scientists, privacy specialists, industry, policymakers, and patient organizations.
With an emphasis on standardization, reproducibility, open and responsible science, capacity building, and clinical translation, the network expanded both the geographic reach and collaborative ambition of the field.
A common language became a common purpose.
Bridge2AI-Voice and eVoiceNet did more than operate in parallel. Their members collaborated through the international VOCAL Initiative to address a fundamental obstacle: inconsistent terminology across voice-based health research.
That work established shared definitions and showed the power of a transatlantic, multidisciplinary community working toward transparent, reproducible, clinically meaningful science. ISVB carries that collaborative spirit forward at a truly global scale.
The global home for vocal biomarker science
ISVB unites researchers, clinicians, engineers, industry leaders, policymakers, and advocates to strengthen methods, improve validation, establish evidence-based standards, and responsibly translate discovery into better health.