Agent skill

Interspeech Author Response

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts, answering WER/MOS evidence…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Interspeech Author Response

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill interspeech-author-response -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills interspeech-author-response --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/INTERSPEECH-Skills/skills/interspeech-author-response .claude/skills/interspeech-author-response && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
interspeech-author-response
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
782 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts, answering WER/MOS evidence…

  • Works in 4 steps: Day 1: read all reviews twice; tag each… → Days 2–3: draft the evidence answers… → Day 4: cross-reviewer consistency pass;… → …
  • INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts
  • SKILL.md covers Know your audience mix, The 4-page constraint shapes…, Anonymity does not pause and Reply skeleton, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Interspeech Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts, answering WER/MOS evidence doubts with material already in the 4-page record, keeping replies anonymous, and writing for the meta-reviewer who decides in June.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts
  • Answering WER/MOS evidence doubts with material already in the 4-page record
  • Keeping replies anonymous
  • Writing for the meta-reviewer who decides in June

Example prompts

  • “/interspeech-author-response”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Day 1: read all reviews twice; tag each point evidence / clarity / scope /
  2. Days 2–3: draft the evidence answers first — they decide acceptance at a
  3. Day 4: cross-reviewer consistency pass; contradictory replies to two
  4. Day 5: cut a third; verify the character/word cap; submit early. CMT under

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Interspeech Author Response loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 782 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 782 words, ~1,616 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/interspeech-author-response/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
interspeech-author-response
description
Use when INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts, answering WER/MOS evidence doubts with material already in the 4-page record, keeping replies anonymous, and writing for the meta-reviewer who decides in June.

INTERSPEECH Author Response

Interspeech added an author rebuttal to its historically response-free pipeline in recent cycles; for 2026 the response window was reported as 24 April – 1 May, ahead of the 5 June notification. Confirm the live mechanics (length cap, CMT form fields, whether replies go to reviewers or only the area chair) before writing a word — rebuttal formats at this venue are young and still moving.

Know your audience mix

An Interspeech review set typically mixes reviewer species, because ISCA's areas span science and engineering:

Reviewer instinctWhat they attackedWhat convinces them
Speech engineerBaselines stale, WER delta within noisePoint to the significance test or per-condition breakdown already in the paper
Speech scientistNo phonetic/error analysis, claims exceed perception dataCite the analysis subsection; concede scope honestly
ML generalist"Incremental over the arXiv version of X"State the technical delta in one sentence; note what the 4-page record shows
Resource skepticCorpus license, split leakage, evaluation protocolQuote the exact split/protocol line; name the license

Answer each reviewer in their own dialect. A MOS-methodology objection answered with more WER numbers reads as a dodge.

The 4-page constraint shapes the rebuttal

Unlike venues with appendices, everything reviewable was on those four pages — so "see appendix" is never available. Your levers are:

  • Locate: most objections at Interspeech are density casualties; the answer is in the paper but compressed. Quote section and line.
  • Reframe: restate what the 4 pages could not spell out — one derivation, one clarified protocol — briefly, as clarification, not as new content.
  • Concede and scope: if the evidence truly is not there, say so and state what a camera-ready (or the next cycle) would add. Speech reviewers punish bluster more than gaps.

Whether new numbers are allowed in the response varies by cycle; if unverified, assume tables of new results are unwelcome and offer them as camera-ready additions.

Anonymity does not pause

The response is part of the double-anonymous record and the anonymity period runs until decisions. No identity hints, no links to demo pages created after submission under identifiable accounts, no "as our group showed at Interspeech 2024."

Reply skeleton

One block per objection, ordered by decision weight:

text
R1-Q2 (statistical validity of the 0.4 WER gain):
- The concern: gains may be within run-to-run variance.
- In the record: Table 2 reports mean±sd over 3 seeds; Sec 4.2 gives the
  bootstrap 95% CI on test-other, excluding zero.
- Clarification: the CI uses utterance-level resampling (1000 draws).
- Offered for camera-ready: add the matched-pairs test on test-clean.

Four to six lines each. The meta-reviewer will compress you anyway — pre-compress.

Triage order under a one-week window

  1. Day 1: read all reviews twice; tag each point evidence / clarity / scope / taste. Ignore taste unless the meta-reviewer could echo it.
  2. Days 2–3: draft the evidence answers first — they decide acceptance at a venue where "not convincing" is the modal reject phrase.
  3. Day 4: cross-reviewer consistency pass; contradictory replies to two reviewers are visible to the area chair on CMT.
  4. Day 5: cut a third; verify the character/word cap; submit early. CMT under deadline load is not where you want to be at 23:58 AoE.
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What to skip

  • Do not re-argue the venue ("this is more of an ICASSP concern") — the routing decision was yours at area selection.
  • Do not promise a Long Paper resubmission as a fix for missing evidence.
  • Do not thank at length; the cap is better spent on the CI you computed.
  • Do not respond to score, only to content — scores at Interspeech shift through the meta-review, not through indignation.

Pre-send checklist

  • Every objection from every reviewer is acknowledged, even if only with one scoped sentence — silence on a point reads as concession.
  • Each factual reply cites a section, table, or figure of the submitted PDF.
  • No new result tables unless the live instructions explicitly permit them.
  • Replies to different reviewers tell one consistent story.
  • Zero identity signals: no lab names, grant codes, fresh links, or "our Interspeech 2024 system" phrasing.
  • Word/character cap verified against the CMT form, not against habit.
  • Someone outside the author list read it cold and could restate each objection from your answer alone.

Emotional discipline, briefly

Interspeech reviews arrive compressed and sometimes blunt — three reviewers covering a 4-page paper leave little space for pleasantries. The productive reading: every blunt sentence is a compression artifact of a real concern. Extract the concern, drop the tone, and never mirror bluntness back; the meta-reviewer reads your temperament as evidence about the work's solidity.

If there is no rebuttal this cycle

Rebuttal mechanics at Interspeech are recent and not guaranteed to recur. If the current cycle runs without one, this skill still applies at two later moments: the camera-ready revision memo (accepted papers), where reviewer concerns get addressed in print, and the next-cycle revision plan (rejected papers), where the same objection map drives the rewrite — see interspeech-review-process for the triage lanes.

Output format

text
[Review set] R1/R2/R3(+) one-line objection map, tagged by type
[Decisive objection] <the one the meta-reviewer will weigh>
[Anchors] <section/table/figure of the 4-page record answering each point>
[Concessions] <honest gaps + camera-ready offers>
[Rebuttal draft] <numbered blocks per skeleton, within the live cap>
[Verify first] cap / new-results policy / who reads it — from the live CMT form

The 2026 window dates above came from secondary renderings and are flagged 待核实 in resources/official-source-map.md; the official author pages control.

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in INTERSPEECH-Skills/skills/interspeech-author-response of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Interspeech Author Response

What does Interspeech Author Response do?

A skill your agent uses when INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts, answering WER/MOS evidence…. Interspeech Author Response is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts, answering WER/MOS evidence doubts with material already in the 4-page record, keeping replies anonymous, and writing for the meta-reviewer who decides in June.

When should I use Interspeech Author Response?

Interspeech Author Response fits situations like: INTERSPEECH reviews arrive on CMT and a rebuttal is due — triaging three-or-more speech reviewers with mixed science/engineering instincts; answering WER/MOS evidence doubts with material already in the 4-page record; keeping replies anonymous; writing for the meta-reviewer who decides in June.

How do I install Interspeech Author Response in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill interspeech-author-response -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (INTERSPEECH-Skills/skills/interspeech-author-response in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/interspeech-author-response in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Interspeech Author Response in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill interspeech-author-response -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (INTERSPEECH-Skills/skills/interspeech-author-response in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/interspeech-author-response in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Interspeech Author Response in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill interspeech-author-response -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/interspeech-author-response, .gemini/skills/interspeech-author-response, .github/skills/interspeech-author-response and .opencode/skills/interspeech-author-response in your project.

What does Interspeech Author Response need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Interspeech Author Response is instructions for the agent only.

Does Interspeech Author Response access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Interspeech Author Response safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Interspeech Author Response use?

Interspeech Author Response is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Interspeech Author Response use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Interspeech Author Response?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.