The Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology Workshop (YFRSW) is a workshop for female-identifying undergraduate and master's students who are currently working in speech science and technology. It is designed to foster interest in research in our field in women, at the undergraduate or master's level, who have not yet committed to getting a PhD in speech science or technology areas, but who have had some research experience in their college and universities via individual or group projects. 

The workshop will be held prior to Interspeech 2022 on 17 September in person at Inha University in Incheon, Korea! The workshop features panel discussions with PhD students and senior researchers in the field, student poster presentations and a mentoring session. Student poster presentations should give an overview of a current or planned research project in which the student is involved, with an emphasis on promoting discussion.

Please note that the workshop will take place fully in person (as long as Interspeech has an in-person component); we are not able to offer digital participation in 2022.

The workshop is the sixth of its kind, after a successful inaugural event  YFRSW 2016 at Interspeech 2016 in San Francisco,  YFRSW 2017 at Interspeech 2017 in Stockholm, YFRSW 2018 at Interspeech 2018 in Hyderabad, YFRSW 2019 at Interspeech 2019 in Graz, and YFRSW 2021 as a virtual event before Interspeech 2021 in Brno. (No event was held in 2020 due to Covid-19.)

Students who are accepted to the workshop will receive a grant to pay for their student Interspeech registration (at the early-bird student rate) and to contribute towards their travel to the conference. While students who have previously attended the workshop are welcome to submit their work a second time, only first-time attendees are eligible to receive financial support.

YFRSW is recognized as an official Interspeech satellite event. YFRSW  is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). We hold the status of an ISCA Supported Event. ISCA is committed to a pleasant conference experience without harassment and discrimination. The code-of-conduct can be found here.

Please direct any questions to:

youngfemaleresearchersinspeech@gmail.com

Book of Abstracts

You can find more information and all abstracts presented at YFRSW 2022 here.

Best Poster Award

Divya Tadimeti (UC Berkeley, USC ICT): "Conveying Empathy in Spoken Language: An Acoustic-Prosodic Analysis"

Committees

Co-Chairs

• Meg Zellers (Kiel University, Germany)

• Esther Klabbers (ReadSpeaker, USA)

• Iona Gessinger (ADAPT, University College Dublin, Ireland)

Organizing committee

• Bowon Lee (Inha University, South Korea)

• Jennifer Williams (University of Southampton, UK)

• Leda Sari (Meta AI, USA)

• Sarah Ita Levitan (City University of New York, USA)

• Jesin James (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Program committee

• Catarina Botelho (INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

• Catherine Lai (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Christina Tånnander (KTH, Sweden)

• David House (KTH, Sweden)

• Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos (University of Potsdam, Germany)

• Erica Cooper (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

• Francisco Teixeira (INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

• Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

• Ivan Yuen (Saarland University, Germany)

• Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University, Germany)

• Kathrin Feindt (Kiel University, Germany)

• Mahsa Elyasi (Amazon Web Services, USA)

• Mikey Elmers (Saarland University, Germany)

• Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University, Germany)

• Raphael Werner (Saarland University, Germany)

• Rubén Solera Ureña (INESC-ID, Portugal)

• Sarenne Wallbridge (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Stephanie Berger (Kiel University, Germany)

• Yuanchao Li (University of Edinburgh, UK)