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

• 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

• 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

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: 

• Prof. Bettina Braun (University of Konstanz)

• Prof. Mariapaola D'Imperio (Aix-Marseille Université)

• Dr. Wim Pouw ( Radboud University)

• 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
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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: