Call For Papers

This special session is designed to reflect and challenge deficit-based approaches by learning and adopting the user-centered, participatory research methods from the HCI field in speech science and technology. We welcome submissions from the HCI community that explore and demonstrate a user-centered, community-first approach in studying and evaluating speech technologies for marginalized populations. In particular, we encourage the submissions of work grounded in qualitative and HCI-based methods for system design, analysis, and critique, to complement existing InterSpeech literature on “fair and inclusive” speech science and technology that is primarily quantitative in nature.

We also welcome submissions from the InterSpeech community that embrace community-centered approaches when working with impacted communities and stakeholders. Together, we hope to create a cross-disciplinary space to promote truly fair, accessible, inclusive, and equitable speech science and technology that highlight the downstream, human impacts of our work beyond the technological contributions.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

• Qualitative and HCI Approaches to Speech Research and Technology

• User experiences of speech technology accessibility, fairness, and inclusivity

• Critical Auditing of Speech Papers and Datasets

• Community-Led, Participatory Speech Research and Technology Development

• Socio-technical perspective on the accessibility, fairness, and inclusivity of speech technologies

• Disability justice frameworks in speech science and technology research and development

• Ability-based research, design and development of accessible speech technologies