Agent skill

Interspeech Topic Selection

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

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH, the ISCA flagship speech conference, or should be routed to ICASSP, ASRU/SLT, Odyssey, SSW, ACL/EMNLP, or a speech…

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Install Interspeech Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills interspeech-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .claude/skills/interspeech-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
806 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH, the ISCA flagship speech conference, or should be routed to ICASSP, ASRU/SLT, Odyssey, SSW, ACL/EMNLP, or a speech…

  • Deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH
  • SKILL.md covers The modality test, Where Interspeech sits among…, Subfield-to-area matching and Track choice inside…, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • The ISCA flagship speech conference

What it does

Interspeech Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH, the ISCA flagship speech conference, or should be routed to ICASSP, ASRU/SLT, Odyssey, SSW, ACL/EMNLP, or a speech journal — testing whether spoken language is the contribution, matching subfields to the reviewer pool, and choosing between the 4-page and Long Paper tracks.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

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

  • Deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH
  • The ISCA flagship speech conference
  • Should be routed to ICASSP
  • A speech journal — testing whether spoken language is the contribution

Example prompts

  • “/interspeech-topic-selection”

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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • interspeech2026.org

    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 Topic Selection loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 806 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 806 words, ~1,684 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/interspeech-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
interspeech-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH, the ISCA flagship speech conference, or should be routed to ICASSP, ASRU/SLT, Odyssey, SSW, ACL/EMNLP, or a speech journal — testing whether spoken language is the contribution, matching subfields to the reviewer pool, and choosing between the 4-page and Long Paper tracks.

INTERSPEECH Topic Selection

Interspeech is the annual conference of ISCA — the International Speech Communication Association, not to be confused with the computer-architecture symposium that shares the acronym. It is the broadest speech venue in existence: phoneticians, hearing scientists, ASR engineers, and voice-cloning teams review in adjacent areas of the same program. Fit means convincing speech reviewers, and the 2026 theme in Sydney was "Speaking Together" — inclusion across languages, cultures, and modalities. Reconfirm scope at https://interspeech2026.org before routing.

The modality test

Ask: if the audio were replaced by its transcript, would the contribution survive?

  • If yes, the paper is NLP wearing a headset — route it to an ACL-family venue where text-based reviewers will value it.
  • If no — the claim depends on acoustics, prosody, speakers, articulation, hearing, or the speech signal itself — Interspeech is a candidate.
  • Borderline: spoken-language understanding and speech-LLM work fits when the spoken channel (disfluency, ASR errors, prosody, audio tokens) is analyzed, not assumed away.

Where Interspeech sits among its neighbors

If the core contribution is...PreferWhy not Interspeech
Speech science or technology, any subfieldInterspeech— (this is home turf)
General signal processing, radar, imagingICASSP (IEEE)Interspeech reviewers expect speech, not DSP breadth
ASR-only deep dive, workshop-scaleASRU / SLT (IEEE, biennial)Smaller, narrower; fine for follow-ups
Speaker/language recognition depthOdyssey (ISCA workshop)Specialist audience; Interspeech still fine
TTS system depthSSW (ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop)Same trade-off as Odyssey
Text NLP, LLM reasoning, no audio analysisACL / EMNLP / NAACLFails the modality test
Mature work needing >4 pages of recordIEEE/ACM TASLP, Computer Speech & Language, Speech CommunicationJournal timelines, no conference clock

Subfield-to-area matching

Interspeech submissions are reviewed inside scientific areas chosen at submission time. Misfiled papers draw reviewers with the wrong evaluation instincts:

  • Recognition-side: ASR architectures, robustness, adaptation, decoding.
  • Generation-side: TTS, voice conversion, singing synthesis.
  • Talker-side: speaker verification, diarization, anti-spoofing, voice privacy.
  • Human-side: phonetics, prosody, production/perception, pathological speech, child speech, second-language learning.
  • Interaction-side: spoken dialogue, SLU, speech translation, audio LLMs.
  • Resource-side: corpora, benchmarks, evaluation methodology, challenges.

A phonetics claim reviewed by ASR engineers (or vice versa) is the most common self-inflicted rejection at this venue; pick the area for the claim, not the tools.

Track choice inside Interspeech (new in 2026)

Interspeech 2026 introduced a Long Paper track (reported: up to 8 pages plus 2 reference pages, targeted acceptance below 30%) alongside the classic 4-page regular paper. Choose long only when the contribution genuinely cannot be stated in four pages — a benchmark with extensive analysis, a theory-plus-system arc. A padded 4-page idea in the long track competes against a stricter bar. Verify the current track rules; this split is one cycle old.

Signals the project is Interspeech-shaped

  • The evaluation uses speech-native metrics (WER, MOS, EER, PESQ) on named corpora.
  • Error analysis engages speakers, accents, noise conditions, or phonetic categories.
  • The related work traces through the ISCA Archive, not only arXiv and ACL.
  • A speech scientist and a speech engineer would both find something to argue with.
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Signals to reroute

  • Results reported only on text benchmarks with audio as an afterthought.
  • The novelty is a general ML trick demonstrated on speech among other domains — NeurIPS/ICML reviewers reward generality; Interspeech reviewers ask what it teaches about speech.
  • The paper is a product description without a falsifiable claim.

Three triage vignettes

  • "We fine-tuned an LLM to summarize meeting transcripts." Transcript-only input, text output, no acoustic analysis — fails the modality test. Route to an ACL-family venue; return here only if ASR-error propagation or prosodic cues enter the analysis.
  • "Our vocoder halves inference cost at equal MOS." Speech-native claim, speech-native metric, engineering contribution — strong Interspeech fit in a generation-side area; SSW is the specialist fallback if the delta is vocoder-internals deep.
  • "A cross-linguistic study of vowel reduction in child speech." No system at all, and still a strong fit — human-side areas review speech science on its own terms. This breadth is exactly what ICASSP does not offer.

Questions to settle before committing

  • Which two or three scientific areas could plausibly host the claim, and which reviewer pool do you actually want? (Decide now; it is frozen at submission.)
  • Is there a running challenge whose test set and baseline make your evaluation legible for free?
  • Does the evidence you can gather by the deadline fill 4 pages convincingly, or does honesty require the Long Paper track or a journal?
  • If the answer is "reroute," is the finding still worth an ISCA workshop (Odyssey, SSW, task workshops) where the specialist audience is denser?

Output format

text
[Modality test] survives transcript-only? yes / no / partial — <one line>
[Interspeech fit] strong / plausible / reroute
[Area match] <scientific area the claim belongs to>
[Track] 4-page regular / Long Paper (verify current rules) / workshop or challenge
[Reroute target] <ICASSP / ASRU / SLT / Odyssey / SSW / ACL-family / journal + reason>
[Cycle reality] next deadline and source URL, or 待核实

Cycle anchor (checked 2026-07-08)

Interspeech 2026: Sydney, Australia, 27 September – 1 October 2026, hosted with ASSTA; submissions closed 25 February 2026. Interspeech 2027 is announced for São Paulo, Brazil (29 August – 2 September 2027) — the first South American edition — so a project failing today's fit test has a concrete next target. Treat every date here as a snapshot; reopen the official site before planning.

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Interspeech Topic Selection

What does Interspeech Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH, the ISCA flagship speech conference, or should be routed to ICASSP, ASRU/SLT, Odyssey, SSW, ACL/EMNLP, or a speech…. Interspeech Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH, the ISCA flagship speech conference, or should be routed to ICASSP, ASRU/SLT, Odyssey, SSW, ACL/EMNLP, or a speech journal — testing whether spoken language is the contribution, matching subfields to the reviewer pool, and choosing between the 4-page and Long Paper tracks.

When should I use Interspeech Topic Selection?

Interspeech Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project belongs at INTERSPEECH; the ISCA flagship speech conference; should be routed to ICASSP; A speech journal — testing whether spoken language is the contribution.

How do I install Interspeech Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Interspeech Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Interspeech Topic Selection 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-topic-selection -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-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/interspeech-topic-selection, .github/skills/interspeech-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/interspeech-topic-selection in your project.

What does Interspeech Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Interspeech Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: interspeech2026.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Interspeech Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection use?

Interspeech Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k 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 Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 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.