I think this is neat! #interspeech #isca

https://sites.google.com/view/is-queer-trans/home

Alongside my colleagues, Associate Professor Francis Tyers from Indiana University Bloomington and E.M. L., from Mozilla Data Collective, we're delighted to be presenting a Special Session at Interspeech 2026 in Sydney in September 2026 on:

Safeguarding Synthetic #Speech: Ethical, Technical and Legal perspectives

You can see the Special Session website at:

https://safeguardingsyntheticspeech.org/

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There are some outstanding Special Sessions this year, and I've taken the liberty of listing them - and their organisers. Do consider submitting to the #CfP - it's rare that #Interspeech makes it to Australia and we all want to make the most of it.

#Indigenous voices in Speech Sciences and Technology

Website at: https://indigenousvoicesinterspeech.github.io/

Brought to you by Dr. Cat Kutay, Prof. Janet Wiles, A/Prof Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Dr. Ben Hutchinson, and Daan van Esch

ECT-SpeechAI: #Explainability for #Compliance and #Trust in Speech AI

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/ect-speechai2026

Brought to you by Dr. Xiaoliang Wu, Sarah Kiden, Poppy Welch, Assistant Professor Sneha Das, Assistant Professor Zhengjun Yue, Dr. Sarenne Wallbridge, Assistant Professor Jennifer Williams, PhD

Challenges in Speech Data Collection, Curation and Annotation

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/speech-data-cca/home

Brought to you by Mostafa Shahin, Tunde Szalay, Thomas Schaaf, Ahmed Ali, Jingyao (Jennifer) Wu, Mengyue Wu, Professor Tan Lee, Professor Mark Liberman, Professor Carlos Busso, A/Prof Beena Ahmed

Post-Training of Speech Foundation Models

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/ptsfm

Brought to you by Yang Xiao, Xiangyu Zhang, Ziyang Ma, Siyi Wang, Jiaheng Dong, Professor Eng Siong Chng, Dr Ting Dang

CHILDSPACE: Child Home Interaction and Language Dynamics: Speech, Psychology, Affect, Computation and Environments

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/childspace-interspeech-2026/home

Brought to you by Dr Kaveri Sheth, Dr Alejandrina Cristia, A/Prof Beena Ahmed, Assistant Professor Meg Cychosz, Dr Ting Dang, Kaya de Barbaro, Professor Carol Espy-Wilson, Rebecca Holt, Professor Herman Kamper, Marvin Lavechin, Assistant Professor Jialu Li, Ph.D., Professor Okko Rasanen, Professor Odette Scharenborg, Mostafa Shahin.

Pacific Voices 2026: Speech Science and Technology for Languages of the Pacific Ocean

Website at: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/events/pacificvoices2026/

Brought to you by: Associate Professor Peter Keegan, Dr Jesin James, Dr Isabella Shields, Dr Satwinder Singh, Dr Rolando Coto-Solano.

Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology

Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/is-queer-trans/home

Brought to you by: Robin Netzorg, Nina Markl, Cliodhna Hughes, Juliana Francis, Francisca Pessanha.

Speech AI for All: Challenging Deficit-based approaches to Speech Science and Technology

Website at: https://sites.google.com/aimpower.org/speechai4all-at-interspeech/home

#SpeakingTogether

still hoping for ISCA or at least the ISCA-SAC to eventually also have a presence here, or at this point, to at least stop having one on Elon Musks X Dot Com

ISCA have a bsky now, at least

#isca #iscasac #interspeech

Come work with us! Our department is hiring an Associate or Assistant Prof in language and speech technology https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/associateassistant-professor-language-and-speech-technology

Open until March 16th

#interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

#interspeech reviews done, and before the first deadline, too!

unfortunately I won’t be attending myself this year :(