  Recently, there has been an increased attention towards innovating,
enhancing, building, and deploying applications of speech signal processing for
providing assistance and relief to human mankind from the Coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic. Many AI with speech initiatives are taken to combat with
the present situation and also to create a safe and secure environment for the
future. This paper summarises all these efforts taken by the re-search
community towards helping the individuals and the society in the fight against
COVID-19 over the past 3-4 months using speech signal processing. We also
summarise the deep techniques used in this direction to come up with capable
solutions in a short span of time. This paper further gives an overview of the
contributions from non-speech modalities that may complement or serve as
inspiration for audio and speech analysis. In addition, we discuss our
observations with respect to solution usability, challenges, and the
significant technology achievements.
