The Young Female* Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) is a workshop for female* 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 committed to pursuing a PhD in speech science or technology, but who have already gained research experience at their universities through individual or group projects.

*The workshop is open for marginalized genders, including women, as well as non-binary and gender non-conforming people who are comfortable in a space that is centered on women’s experiences in the speech science and technology community. We aim to offer an inclusive and accessible program. If you are unsure if this workshop is for you, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us!

YFRSW 2025 will take place ahead of Interspeech 2025 on August 16th in the Netherlands. The workshop will be held entirely in person – 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 9th 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

    (No event took place in 2020 due to Covid-19.)

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

    6)  YFRSW 2022 at Interspeech in Incheon/South Korea

    7) YFRSW 2023 at Interspeech in Dublin/Ireland

    8) YFRSW 2024 at Interspeech in Kos/Greece

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. We are happy to welcome students who have an accepted paper at Interspeech 2025. However, we do not provide financial support in this case.

Please direct any questions to: 

youngfemaleresearchersinspeech@gmail.com

Committees

Co-chairs

• Leda Sari (Otter AI, USA)

• Johannah O'Mahony (Whispp, The Netherlands)

• Yuanyuan Zhang (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Organizing committee

• Zhengjun Yue (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

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

• Ayushi Pandey (Karya.in, India)

• Spyretta Leivaditi (Unicorn Labs, The Netherlands)

• Iona Gessinger (Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany)

• Sarenne Wallbridge (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Snigdha Banik (Jodhpur Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)

• Srija Anand (IIT Madras, India)

Program committee

• Andrew Hines (University College Dublin, Ireland)

• Avnish Bora (Jodhpur Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)

• Berrak Sisman (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

• Cassia Valentini Botinhao (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Catherine Lai (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

• Eleanor Chodroff (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

• Erica Cooper (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

• Éva Székely (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

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

• Ivan Yuen (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)

• Jacek Kudera (Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Germany)

• Judith Dineley (King’s College London, UK)

• Karen Livescu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA)

• Kevin Tang (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)

• Lin Ai (Columbia University, USA)

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

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

• Mary Baltazani (University of Oxford, UK)

• Matt Coler (University of Groningen – Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands)

• Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University, Germany)

• Poppy Welch (University of York, UK)

• Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Google India)

• Sanghamitra Nath (Tezpur University, India)

• Shekhar Nayak (University of Groningen - Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands)

• Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Simon King (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Sreeram Ganpathy (IISc Bangalore, Google India)

• Sudarsana Reddi Kadiri (University of Southern California, USA)

• Vass Verkhodanova (University of Groningen – Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands)

• Yuwen Yu (The City University of New York, USA)