35.2833, Calls: Interspeech 2025: "Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology"

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2833. Sat Oct 12 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.2833, Calls: Interspeech 2025: "Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology"

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Date: 10-Oct-2024
From: Aaricia Herygers [aariciaherygers at gmail.com]
Subject: Interspeech 2025: "Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology"

Full Title: Interspeech 2025: "Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and
Technology"

Date: 17-Aug-2025 - 21-Aug-2025
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Contact Person: Ginny Ruiter
Meeting Email: pco at interspeech2025.org
Web Site: interspeech2025.org

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology

Call Deadline: 21-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the 26th edition of
the Interspeech Conference, to be held August 17-21, 2025, in
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The theme of Interspeech 2025 is "Fair and Inclusive Speech Science
and Technology", and aims to celebrate and incorporate the vast speech
diversity both within and between individuals, as well as within and
between languages. This theme emphasizes diversity as a source of
richness and information, contributing to the development of fairer,
more robust, and personalized speech technology applications and more
accurate theories of human speech processing. By embracing this
diversity, we can create theories and technologies that are inclusive
of everyone, ensuring that speech science and technology benefit all
individuals and communities.

Call for Challenge & Special Session Proposals:

Important Dates

Proposals of challenges due: 21 October 2024
Notification of pre-selection for challenges: 31 October 2024
Proposals of special sessions due: 8 November 2024
Notification of pre-selection for special sessions: 18 November 2024
Challenge paper deadline (same as regular papers): 12 February 2025
Final list of challenges and special sessions: 14 May 2025

Submissions for challenge and special session proposals are invited
for Interspeech 2025:
https://interspeech2025.org/

Challenge proposals should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or
important new emerging areas in speech communication. Submissions
related to the special focus of the conference's theme, Fair and
Inclusive Speech Science and Technology, are particularly welcome.
Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference
regular topics, and if applicable, to the conference's theme. Note
that the deadline for challenge proposal submission is earlier than
regular special sessions, namely on October 21 2024. This is to give
the challenge organizers time to disseminate the call and give
participants enough time to participate and submit their papers before
the regular paper deadline.

A Challenge proposal must contain the following information:
    Challenge title
    Challenge organizers (including contact information and a brief
biography for each organizer)
    Brief introduction of the challenge
    Significance of the challenge
    Rules for participation
    Criteria for judging the submissions to the competition
    Data sets to be used and, if applicable, planned baseline systems
    Relevant dates (e.g., submission deadline, data available, and
winner announcement)
    A list of recommended expert reviewers (max 20 names), in
compliance with the ISCA requirement
(https://isca-speech.org/Reviewing)

Each special session proposal must contain the following information:
 - Special session title
 - Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact
information and a brief biography for each organizer)
 - Up to five bullet points on what makes the session special
 - A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session's
topic and objectives. The summary should also explain why the topic is
not properly covered by regular conference sessions.
 - A tentative list of authors who could contribute papers to the
session. Note that with an approximate 50% acceptance rate for
Interspeech papers, special sessions should have a minimum of 12
anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to other
formats than paper presentations.
 - Special sessions may have a different format from regular sessions,
e.g., panel discussion, longer summary talks, or a mix thereof. The
proposal's
 session format should be clearly defined (panel, oral, posters,
etc.).
 - Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster
stands, etc.) needed for organizing the special session.
 - A list of recommended expert reviewers (max 20 names), in
compliance with the ISCA requirement
(https://isca-speech.org/Reviewing)
 - Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in
consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and
significance to the conference.

Papers for approved challenges and special sessions must be submitted
according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular
papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and
independent reviewers.

Note that challenges and special sessions can run for a maximum of
three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we
encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite
Workshop instead.

Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special
Session Chairs: Rob van Son (Netherlands Cancer Institute, the
Netherlands) and Heysem Kaya (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) at
specialsessions at interspeech2025.org.

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