INTERSPEECH Workflow
Interspeech runs one cycle per year with an unforgiving rhythm: a winter deadline,
a silent spring, a June verdict, and a Northern-autumn conference. This skill is
the project-management layer; every date below is the verified 2026 (Sydney)
calendar and must be swapped for the live one each cycle.
The 2026 reference clock
| Date (2026) |
Event |
Owner's job |
| 17 Jan |
CMT portal opens |
metadata drafted, area chosen |
| 25 Feb |
Paper deadline |
PDF + frozen metadata in |
| 4 Mar |
Paper-update close |
sanctioned typo/figure pass done |
| ~24 Apr – 1 May |
Rebuttal window (reported, 待核实) |
response team on call |
| 5 Jun |
Notification |
triage meeting same week |
| 19 Jun |
Camera-ready close |
de-anonymized PDF + metadata |
| 15 Jul |
Early-bird registration closes |
author registration secured |
| 16 Aug |
Standard registration closes |
stragglers covered |
| 27 Sep – 1 Oct |
Conference, Sydney |
talk/poster + audio fallback ready |
Where the cycle stands today (2026-07-08)
Mid-cycle, post-decision. Accepted teams: camera-ready is behind you; early-bird
registration closes in one week — that is the live deadline — then presentation
prep, artifact publication (interspeech-camera-ready,
interspeech-artifact-evaluation), and travel/visa for Sydney. Rejected or
unsubmitted teams: the 2027 cycle (São Paulo, 29 Aug – 2 Sep 2027) is the target;
expect a deadline in the same late-winter region but treat the 2027 dates as
unpublished until the São Paulo site posts them.
Backward plan from any Interspeech deadline
Offsets that have survived contact with real teams; anchor them to live dates:
- T−10 weeks: claims frozen; corpus/split/licensing decisions final.
- T−6 weeks: main results table filled with some number in every cell — the
quality improves later, the design cannot.
- T−4 weeks: draft exists in the official paper kit (not a one-column doc —
the 4-page reality only shows in the template).
- T−2 weeks: internal review by one speech scientist and one engineer,
mirroring the reviewer mix; significance tests run.
- T−1 week: compression pass (
interspeech-writing-style), anonymity sweep,
demo page frozen.
- T: submit half a day early; CMT queues at AoE cutoffs.
- T+1 week: proofread the submitted PDF; use the update window for repairs
only.
Failure patterns by phase
- Winter: discovering at T−1 that the paper is 5.5 pages — compression is a
week of work, not a night (see the compression order in
interspeech-writing-style).
- Spring silence: team disbands; nobody owns the rebuttal when it lands.
Assign the response owner at submission time.
- June: acceptance euphoria eats the two-week camera-ready window; the
registration coupling (no registered author → no proceedings entry) surfaces in
August as a crisis.
- September: audio demos that only ever ran on the lab machine meet a
conference-hall AV chain. Rehearse playback; carry spectrogram fallbacks.
Parallel-track decisions
- Interspeech vs ICASSP double rhythm: the sibling deadline (typically autumn
for ICASSP) means a rejected February idea has a fall retry — decide in June
whether reviews point to "fix and ICASSP" or "grow and Interspeech 2027".
- Challenge alignment: many Interspeech papers ride a challenge (CHiME,
VoxSRC, ASVspoof…); challenge timelines are their own clocks, published by each
organizer, and system-description papers have separate rules — verify per
challenge.
- Journal extension: an accepted 4-pager with leftover material has a
standard afterlife at TASLP / Computer Speech & Language / Speech Communication;
start the extension outline while the reviews are fresh.
Standing owner map
Assign at kickoff, not at crisis:
- Paper owner — format, compression, the submitted PDF, the update-window
proofread.
- Evidence owner — experiment matrix, seeds, significance, scoring scripts.
- Compliance owner — anonymity sweep (PDF + demo page + repo), license
chain, policy checkboxes.
- Rebuttal watcher — has CMT credentials, watches the reported window, owns
the response draft calendar.
- Logistics owner — registration before the tier cutoffs, visa timelines,
AV rehearsal for the talk or poster QR codes.
One person can hold two hats; no hat may be unassigned. Every 2026 failure
pattern above maps to exactly one vacant hat.
Minimal milestone ledger
[frozen] claims / corpus / splits ........ T-10w owner: evidence
[in-kit] draft in official template ...... T-4w owner: paper
[reviewed] internal science+eng pass ....... T-2w owner: paper
[swept] anonymity + demo page frozen .... T-1w owner: compliance
[in] CMT submission confirmed ........ T owner: paper
[patched] update-window proofread ......... T+1w owner: paper
[watched] rebuttal window covered ......... spring owner: watcher
[final] camera-ready + registration ..... June owner: logistics
Output format
[Phase] pre-deadline / update-window / silent-spring / rebuttal /
post-decision / conference-run-up / post-conference
[Live deadline] <date + what it gates + source URL>
[Owner map] paper / rebuttal / camera-ready+registration / artifacts / talk
[Backward plan] next three offsets with dates
[Parallel tracks] ICASSP retry? challenge clock? journal extension?
[Risk now] <single most time-critical item>
Verified anchors and the 待核实 list live in
resources/official-source-map.md (checked 2026-07-08). ISCA rotates organizing
committees per edition — the Sydney team's choices (tracks, rebuttal shape,
attachment rules) do not bind São Paulo.
1---2name: interspeech-workflow3description: Use when managing an INTERSPEECH project across the annual ISCA cycle — backward-planning from the late-February deadline through the update window, spring review, June notification, camera-ready and registration coupling, and the September–October conference, including what to do in the current post-decision phase and 2027 planning.4---56# INTERSPEECH Workflow78Interspeech runs one cycle per year with an unforgiving rhythm: a winter deadline,9a silent spring, a June verdict, and a Northern-autumn conference. This skill is10the project-management layer; every date below is the verified 2026 (Sydney)11calendar and must be swapped for the live one each cycle.1213## The 2026 reference clock1415| Date (2026) | Event | Owner's job |16|---|---|---|17| 17 Jan | CMT portal opens | metadata drafted, area chosen |18| 25 Feb | Paper deadline | PDF + frozen metadata in |19| 4 Mar | Paper-update close | sanctioned typo/figure pass done |20| ~24 Apr – 1 May | Rebuttal window (reported, 待核实) | response team on call |21| 5 Jun | Notification | triage meeting same week |22| 19 Jun | Camera-ready close | de-anonymized PDF + metadata |23| 15 Jul | Early-bird registration closes | author registration secured |24| 16 Aug | Standard registration closes | stragglers covered |25| 27 Sep – 1 Oct | Conference, Sydney | talk/poster + audio fallback ready |2627## Where the cycle stands today (2026-07-08)2829Mid-cycle, post-decision. Accepted teams: camera-ready is behind you; **early-bird30registration closes in one week** — that is the live deadline — then presentation31prep, artifact publication (`interspeech-camera-ready`,32`interspeech-artifact-evaluation`), and travel/visa for Sydney. Rejected or33unsubmitted teams: the 2027 cycle (São Paulo, 29 Aug – 2 Sep 2027) is the target;34expect a deadline in the same late-winter region but **treat the 2027 dates as35unpublished until the São Paulo site posts them**.3637## Backward plan from any Interspeech deadline3839Offsets that have survived contact with real teams; anchor them to live dates:4041- **T−10 weeks**: claims frozen; corpus/split/licensing decisions final.42- **T−6 weeks**: main results table filled with *some* number in every cell — the43 quality improves later, the design cannot.44- **T−4 weeks**: draft exists in the official paper kit (not a one-column doc —45 the 4-page reality only shows in the template).46- **T−2 weeks**: internal review by one speech scientist *and* one engineer,47 mirroring the reviewer mix; significance tests run.48- **T−1 week**: compression pass (`interspeech-writing-style`), anonymity sweep,49 demo page frozen.50- **T**: submit half a day early; CMT queues at AoE cutoffs.51- **T+1 week**: proofread the submitted PDF; use the update window for repairs52 only.5354## Failure patterns by phase5556- **Winter**: discovering at T−1 that the paper is 5.5 pages — compression is a57 week of work, not a night (see the compression order in58 `interspeech-writing-style`).59- **Spring silence**: team disbands; nobody owns the rebuttal when it lands.60 Assign the response owner at submission time.61- **June**: acceptance euphoria eats the two-week camera-ready window; the62 registration coupling (no registered author → no proceedings entry) surfaces in63 August as a crisis.64- **September**: audio demos that only ever ran on the lab machine meet a65 conference-hall AV chain. Rehearse playback; carry spectrogram fallbacks.6667## Parallel-track decisions6869- **Interspeech vs ICASSP double rhythm**: the sibling deadline (typically autumn70 for ICASSP) means a rejected February idea has a fall retry — decide in June71 whether reviews point to "fix and ICASSP" or "grow and Interspeech 2027".72- **Challenge alignment**: many Interspeech papers ride a challenge (CHiME,73 VoxSRC, ASVspoof…); challenge timelines are their own clocks, published by each74 organizer, and system-description papers have separate rules — verify per75 challenge.76- **Journal extension**: an accepted 4-pager with leftover material has a77 standard afterlife at TASLP / Computer Speech & Language / Speech Communication;78 start the extension outline while the reviews are fresh.7980## Standing owner map8182Assign at kickoff, not at crisis:8384- **Paper owner** — format, compression, the submitted PDF, the update-window85 proofread.86- **Evidence owner** — experiment matrix, seeds, significance, scoring scripts.87- **Compliance owner** — anonymity sweep (PDF + demo page + repo), license88 chain, policy checkboxes.89- **Rebuttal watcher** — has CMT credentials, watches the reported window, owns90 the response draft calendar.91- **Logistics owner** — registration before the tier cutoffs, visa timelines,92 AV rehearsal for the talk or poster QR codes.9394One person can hold two hats; no hat may be unassigned. Every 2026 failure95pattern above maps to exactly one vacant hat.9697## Minimal milestone ledger9899```text100[frozen] claims / corpus / splits ........ T-10w owner: evidence101[in-kit] draft in official template ...... T-4w owner: paper102[reviewed] internal science+eng pass ....... T-2w owner: paper103[swept] anonymity + demo page frozen .... T-1w owner: compliance104[in] CMT submission confirmed ........ T owner: paper105[patched] update-window proofread ......... T+1w owner: paper106[watched] rebuttal window covered ......... spring owner: watcher107[final] camera-ready + registration ..... June owner: logistics108```109110## Output format111112```text113[Phase] pre-deadline / update-window / silent-spring / rebuttal /114 post-decision / conference-run-up / post-conference115[Live deadline] <date + what it gates + source URL>116[Owner map] paper / rebuttal / camera-ready+registration / artifacts / talk117[Backward plan] next three offsets with dates118[Parallel tracks] ICASSP retry? challenge clock? journal extension?119[Risk now] <single most time-critical item>120```121122Verified anchors and the 待核实 list live in123`resources/official-source-map.md` (checked 2026-07-08). ISCA rotates organizing124committees per edition — the Sydney team's choices (tracks, rebuttal shape,125attachment rules) do not bind São Paulo.
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