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 2024 will take place ahead of Interspeech 2024 on August 31st in Greece. 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 8th 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

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 2024 here. 

Best Poster Award

Marta Grasa (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): "How do ASR models deal with foreign-accented speech?"

Committees

Co-chairs

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

• Leda Sari (Meta AI, USA)

• Georgia Maniati (Samsung Electronics (Innoetics), Greece)

Organizing committee

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

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

• Vered Silber-Varod (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

• Sarenne Wallbridge (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Aria Minaidi (Google, Poland)

• Aaricia Herygers (alphaspeech, Germany)

• Spyretta Leivaditi (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

• Yuanyuan Zhang (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Program committee

• Catherine Lai (University of Edinburgh, UK)

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

• Yuanchao Li (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• Theodora Chaspari (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

• Ivan Yuen (Saarland University, Germany)

• Shuvayanti Das (Machine Learning Engineer)

• Farida Yusuf (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

• Sneha Das (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

• Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University, Germany)

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

• Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Eleanor Chodroff (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

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

• Ayushi Pandey (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

• Bistra Andreeva (Saarland University, Germany)

• Christina Tånnander (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Mikey Elmers (Kyoto University, Japan)

• Marianne de Heer Kloots (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Poppy Welch (University of Southampton, UK)

• Karla Pizzi (Fraunhofer AISEC/Technical University of Munich, Germany)

• Charlotte Pouw (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Vass Verkhodanova (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

• Matt Coler (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

• Mary Baltazani (University of Oxford, UK)

• Shekhar Nayak (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

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

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