FAQ

Q1: Does this workshop provide travel grants or scholarships? 

Although not promised, small travel grants are available for participants from communities impacted by speech AI, as well as groups under-represented in AI fairness and accessibility discussions. Please indicate your need for financial support in the application, we will evaluate the requests and let you know the amount of funds we can provide when we send out acceptance notifications.

Q2: Is submitting a position paper required to attend this workshop?

We do not require the submission of a paper and expect only a small number of papers presented at the workshop. Participants will be encouraged to share their papers and artifacts on open access platforms such as arXiv and GitHub. With permission, accepted papers and artifacts will also be published on the workshop website, along with recorded presentations.

Q3: What are the post-workshop plans?

We will close the workshop with a discussion that reflects our collective learnings and builds a plan to create momentum for fair and inclusive speech AI for all. 

The participants will be encouraged to publish their optional papers on the workshop's website for archival and visibility purposes. They will have the opportunity to co-author a white paper that summarizes the insights from the workshop and provides a research roadmap for this topic. The white paper will be published on the workshop's website and submitted to ACM Interactions. The participants will also be invited to form a cross-sector coalition, organized through a mailing list as well as regular virtual meet-ups, to drive forward the roadmap we built at the workshop. 

Collectively, the coalition will also carry out follow-up activities such as identifying funding and collaboration opportunities (e.g. joint grant proposals, shared projects), planning for additional workshops on fair and accessible speech AI at CHI or other venues (e.g. NeurIPS, CSCW, FAccT), organizing special issues in relevant journals, and establishing the infrastructure for industry-academic-community partnerships.