interspeech-writing-style
Use when writing or compressing an INTERSPEECH paper into its 4 content pages — the abstract-and-index-terms opening, task-first framing for a mixed science/engineering readership, table and figure economy, protocol one-liners that preserve rigor under compression, and the cuts that shrink pages without shrinking claims.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill interspeech-writing-style --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 Writing Style Four pages is not a short paper; it is a different literary form. The Interspeech house style evolved to let a reader — who may be a phonetician, an ASR engineer, or an area chair skimming forty PDFs — extract task, method, corpus, metric, and delta in one pass. Everything below serves that one-pass property. ## The opening contract - **Title**: task and mechanism, in community vocabulary. Searchable in the ISCA Archive beats clever. - **Abstract** (~100–150 words): task → limitation of current practice → your move → corpus + metric + headline number → one-clause takeaway. Numbers belong in Interspeech abstracts; "significant improvements" without a number reads as evasion. - **Index Terms**: the paper kit's index-terms line is your search surface — pick the 3–5 terms your intended reviewers actually use. - **Introduction** (~0.75 column): no history of deep learning. Name the task in sentence one, the gap by sentence three, the contribution list by the end. ## Density moves that buy space honestly | Move | Before | After | |---|---|---| | Protocol one-liner | A paragraph on data prep | "We follow the ESPnet LibriSpeech recipe (commit X) except: …" | | D
- The opening contract
- Density moves that buy space honestly
- Speech-community diction
- The compression order (when you are at 5.5 pages)
- Micro-example: results sentence, before → after
- A working section budget for 4 pages
- Bilingual/global audience note
- Titles: a quick calibration
- Output format
What does the interspeech-writing-style skill do?
Use when writing or compressing an INTERSPEECH paper into its 4 content pages — the abstract-and-index-terms opening, task-first framing for a mixed science/engineering readership, table and figure economy, protocol one-liners that preserve rigor under compression, and the cuts that shrink pages without shrinking claims.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill interspeech-writing-style --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 909 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.