interspeech-topic-selection
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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill interspeech-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 c
- The modality test
- Where Interspeech sits among its neighbors
- Subfield-to-area matching
- Track choice inside Interspeech (new in 2026)
- Signals the project is Interspeech-shaped
- Signals to reroute
- Three triage vignettes
- Questions to settle before committing
- Output format
- Cycle anchor (checked 2026-07-08)
What does the interspeech-topic-selection skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill interspeech-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.