The Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) is an event for female-identifying Bachelor's and Master's students currently working in speech science and technology. The workshop aims to promote interest in research in our field among women who have not yet decided to pursue a PhD in speech science or technology, but who have already gained research experience at their universities through individual or group projects.

YFRSW 2023 will take place ahead of Interspeech 2023 on August 19th at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The workshop will be held entirely in person (as long as Interspeech has an in-person component). We do not offer remote participation. 

The workshop will include panel discussions with PhD students and senior researchers in the field, student poster presentations, and a mentoring session. Student poster presentations should provide an overview of a current or planned research project in which the student is involved, with an emphasis on promoting discussion.

This year marks the 7th edition of the successful YFRSW series:

    1)  YFRSW 2016 at Interspeech in San Francisco/USA.  

    2)  YFRSW 2017 at Interspeech in Stockholm/Sweden.

    3)  YFRSW 2018 at Interspeech in Hyderabad/India 

    4)  YFRSW 2019 at Interspeech in Graz/Austria

    5)  YFRSW 2021 (virtual) at Interspeech in Brno/Czech Republic

    6)  YFRSW 2022 at Interspeech in Incheon/South Korea

(No event took place 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 light 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 satellite event of Interspeech. The workshop is endorsed by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event. ISCA is committed to a pleasant conference experience without harassment and discrimination – see the code-of-conduct. ISCA is committed to publishing high-quality journals and conference proceedings – see the code-of-ethics for authors.

Please direct any questions to: 

youngfemaleresearchersinspeech@gmail.com

Book of Abstracts

You can find more information and all abstracts presented at YFRSW 2023 here.

Best Poster Award

Priyanka Kommagouni (IIIT, Hyderabad): "Unravelling speech disfluencies: A novel approach to distinguishing typical and atypical stuttering patterns"

Committees

Co-chairs

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

• Jennifer Williams (University of Southampton, UK)

• Leda Sari (Meta AI, USA)

Organizing committee

• Ayushi Pandey (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

• Johannah O'Mahony (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Pamir Gogoi (Living Tongues Institute of Endangered Languages, USA)

• Sarenne Wallbridge (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Program committee

• Beeke Muhlack (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)

• Bistra Andreeva (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)

• Catherine Lai (CSTR, Edinburgh, UK)

• Charlotte Pouw (ILLC, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Eleanor Chodroff (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

• Evgeniia Razumovskaia (LTL, Cambridge, UK)

• Farida Yusuf (University of Southampton, UK)

• Gustav Eje Henter (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Ivan Yuen (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)

• Jens Edlund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Karla Pizzi (Fraunhofer AISEC/TU München, Germany)

• Kevin Tang (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)

• Marianne de Heer Kloots (ILLC, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

• Peter Bell (CSTR, Edinburgh, UK)

• Poppy Welch (University of York, UK)

• Preethi Jyothi (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

• Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Shuvayanti Das (CNRS, Paris, France)

• Sneha Das (Technical University of Denmark)

• Zofia Malisz (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)