10th Doctoral Consortium @ Interspeech 2024
Update: Click here to download the program.
ISCA’s Student Advisory Committee is pleased to announce its 10th Doctoral Consortium at INTERSPEECH 2024 on August 31st. The event gives the doctoral students the opportunity to get feedback on their ongoing dissertation project from a panel of experts.
The Consortium is open to doctoral students at any stage of their dissertation. Each participant will have 30 minutes to present and discuss their work-in-progress. Discussions are led by the panel of experts and focus on helping each participant refine their research plan and identify the next steps in their project. All doctoral students in speech-related fields are invited to submit a two-page abstract outlining their dissertation project.
Like last year, the review process will be double-blind.
Abstract Guidelines
Abstracts should describe the dissertation project as a whole: what you have done so far, what you plan to do, and what challenges you see. The abstract may incorporate in-progress and published work, but should address the following points:
- Research question and motivation
- Key challenges (methodological and/or theoretical)
- Discussion of results (or expected results and their implications)
- Plans for the future and thesis roadmap
- Main contributions of your research
Abstracts from previous years can be found here.
- 2 pages with 1 additional page for references (if needed)
- Use the INTERSPEECH 2024 template provided here in the blind format
- The doctoral student must be the sole author
Submission
Submit your abstract in PDF format by June 13th 2024.
Abstracts must be submitted through the CMT portal, which will open on May 1st 2024 (portal link HERE). Accepted submissions will be published on the ISCA-SAC website. A submission indicates consent for ISCA-SAC to publish the abstract.
Venue and Presentation Guidelines
The Doctoral Consortium will be held in connection with INTERSPEECH 2024 in Kos, Greece. It is planned as an in-person event.
If your abstract is accepted, you will need to present it at the event. You will have 15 minutes to present your work, and 15 minutes of discussion with the panel of experts.
Important Dates
- May 1st, 2024 – Submission portal opens
- June 13th, 2024 – Submission deadline
- July 3rd, 2024 – Notification of acceptance/rejection
- August 10th, 2024 – Camera-ready abstract due
- August 31st, 2024 – 10th Doctoral Consortium
Aaricia Herygers:
For more information about ISCA-SAC please visit: www.isca-students.org
12th Students meet Experts at Speech Prosody 2024
Many thanks to all the experts and students who joined us in our first event at Speech Prosody and shared their experiences!
Looking forward to seeing you in our forthcoming events.
Date: Friday, July 5th
Time: Lunchtime (12:45-13:45)
Location: Leiden University in the Netherlands
Panel of Experts:
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Prof. Bettina Braun (University of Konstanz)
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Prof. Mariapaola D'Imperio (Aix-Marseille Université)
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Dr. Wim Pouw ( Radboud University)
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Prof. Katharina Zahner-Ritter (University of Trier)
After successful Interspeech editions in Lyon (2013), Singapore (2014), San Francisco (2016), Stockholm (2017), Hyderabad (2018), Graz (2019), virtually in both Shanghai (2020) and Brno (2021), Incheon (2022), Dublin (2023), we are excited to announce that Students Meet Experts is now coming to Speech Prosody for the first time. With the fund of ISCA, we will have a panel discussion with 4 experts. We encourage you to submit questions before the event. A selection of the submitted questions will be answered from the panel of experts. Please keep in mind that the experts and the audience are coming from different fields, so field specific and technical questions are less likely to be presented to the panel. Examples of topics discussed last years are career path, work-life balance, and mental health in academia. To submit your questions and/or register for this event, we ask you to fill in the form below.
Click to REGISTER and SUBMIT your questions
Contact:
Tina Raissi
Welcome 2024!
Say hi to our 2024 board and volunteers! (Well, most of them.)
Last week we kicked off the organization of all the SAC events of 2024. Stay tuned for another round of mentoring, doctoral consortium, students meet experts, and the Speech Pitch podcast!
If you are interested in joining as a volunteer, please contact us directly or fill in this form: Click here
Goodbye 2023!
Thanks to all board members and volunteers for their dedication and contributions to ISCA-SAC in 2023. We will open volunteer registrations for 2024 soon, and announce the new board members and events for Interspeech 2024. Stay tuned!
9th Doctoral Consortium @ Interspeech 2023 - Extended Abstracts now online!
The Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA-SAC) held its 9th Doctoral Consortium on August 19, 2023. This event gave doctoral candidates the opportunity to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion included feedback on the evolution and progress of the students, in order to help them identify a road-map towards refining their thesis.
Schedule: Click here
The panel of experts included:
- Kay Berkling
- Sébastien Le Maguer
- Mathew Magimai Doss
- Pawel Swietojanski
The extended abstract for each of the presentations can be found below:
| Speaker | Extended Abstract |
| Ali Raheem Mandeel | |
| Prachi Singh | |
| Dhanya Eledath | |
| Carol Figueroa | |
| Fritz Seebauer | |
| Gauri Deshpande | |
| Jenifer Vega Rodriguez | |
| Dominika Woszczyk | |
| Margot Masson |
Mentoring Events at Interspeech 2023
An initiative of ISCA’s Mentoring Committee and ISCA-SAC
- Round-Table Mentoring:
- Mentee Table and Topic Assignment (Coming soon!)
- Event Agenda (Coming soon!)
- Post-event Survey (Coming soon!)
- One-on-One Mentoring:
Date, Time & Location:
- Round-Table Mentoring: In-person during Interspeech 2023, on Tuesday August 22nd, 2023 from 12:00 to 13:30 PM at the Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland.
- One-on-One Mentoring: Choice/Preference of the mentor and mentee, this can be in-person or virtual.
Description: After four successful editions of the mentoring event, at Interspeech 2019 in Graz, Interspeech 2020 in Shanghai (online), Interspeech 2021 in Brno (online), and Interspeech 2022 in Incheon (hybrid), ISCA’s new Mentoring Committee is joining forces with the Student Advisory Committee, ISCA-SAC to organise mentoring events for the fourth time, at Interspeech 2023 in Dublin. Similarly to what happened last year, we will hold two events: round tables and one-on-one mentoring. We invite all researchers in any stage of their career to participate. Participants will be given the opportunity to engage in group (round table) and one-to-one discussions with academics/researchers/professionals from academia and industry in a friendly, welcoming environment.
- Round-Table Mentoring: Catering to your needs, separate round tables will be provided for participants and mentors to interact on various topics of mutual interest. Each round-table will have an assigned topic, two mentors, and 6-8 participants. Mentors will be confirmed closer to the date. We will try our best to prioritize your preferred topics for discussion.
- One-on-One Mentoring: If you would feel more comfortable discussing certain topics in a one-on-one session, you can register for this event, and we will do our best to find a mentor matching your needs. We will later introduce mentor and participant pairs, and let you arrange the best time/place for your conversation (choice/preference of the mentor and mentee). This conversation can be in-person or virtual. Mentees need not have to attend Interspeech in-person and can participate virtually. Our goal is to increase the access to mentoring for as many mentees (who might not be able to travel to Interspeech) as possible and better support the speech research community.
Mentee/Participant Registration: Anyone interested in participating is invited to register using the below registration form. You can register for both events. We will do our best to have a place for everyone, but in case that is not possible, participants will be selected according to availability of mentors and topics on a first-come first-serve basis. We will contact you via e-mail after registration. Click here to REGISTER
Mentor/Professional Member Registration: Anyone willing to become a mentor for the One-on-One mentoring session (in-person/virtual) can register via our online form. This would be a great opportunity to connect with researchers from various backgrounds and experience levels and engage in meaningful conversations. If you feel that you would be able to give meaningful feedback and share concerns or answer questions from participants, this is a great chance to become a mentor for the one-to-one mentoring sessions. Click here to REGISTER
Contact:
Satwik Dutta (
For more information about ISCA-SAC, please visit: www.isca-students.org
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