# Interspeech Related Work > Use when positioning an INTERSPEECH paper in the literature — tracing lineage through the ISCA Archive and its DOIs, covering the ICASSP/ASRU/SLT sibling circuit and challenge series, handling the speech-versus-NLP crossover canon, citing corpora properly, and avoiding the venue misattributions speech reviewers notice instantly. - Skill: `thedixitjain/interspeech-related-work` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add thedixitjain/interspeech-related-work` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/thedixitjain/interspeech-related-work/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Marketing & Growth - Author: thedixitjain (https://skillmd.com/u/thedixitjain) - Updated: 2026-09-08 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/thedixitjain/interspeech-related-work --- # INTERSPEECH Related Work At Interspeech, related work is compressed into clauses (the 4-page format leaves no room for a survey), which raises the stakes: the few citations you make signal whether you know the field's actual genealogy. Speech has a citation culture with sharp edges — canonical systems, challenge baselines, and corpus papers each have one correct citation — and reviewers check. ## The five lanes to cover | Lane | What reviewers look for | Where it lives | |---|---|---| | ISCA lineage | The prior Interspeech/ISCA-workshop papers on your exact task | ISCA Archive (isca-archive.org) | | IEEE sibling circuit | ICASSP/ASRU/SLT versions of the same line | IEEE Xplore | | Challenge canon | The relevant challenge (CHiME, VoxSRC, ASVspoof, Blizzard, VoicePrivacy…) and its baseline system | challenge sites + ISCA Archive | | Crossover ML/NLP | The arXiv/NeurIPS/ICML/ACL end of speech-LLM and SSL work | arXiv + those proceedings | | Corpus & metric papers | The corpus paper for every dataset, the metric paper for every nonstandard metric | mixed venues — cite the true one | Missing lane 1 is the deadly one: a paper that cites only arXiv preprints while ignoring two prior Interspeech papers on the same task tells the area chair the authors never searched the Archive. ## Search the field like a speech researcher - **ISCA Archive** (www.isca-archive.org) is open access and searchable across all Interspeech years plus ISCA workshops — search it by task term before writing a single positioning sentence. - Interspeech papers carry DOIs of the form `10.21437/Interspeech.-`; cite the archival version, not the arXiv mirror, when both exist. - Sweep the last ~3 editions of Interspeech and the last ICASSP for your task — the annual+annual rhythm means the state of the art moves twice a year. - Check the relevant challenge's latest edition; at Interspeech, "the CHiME-8 baseline" is a shared reference point that locates your numbers instantly. ## Venue attribution: the trap list Speech's most-cited papers are scattered across venues, and misattributing them is a credibility wound. Verified anchors (see `resources/exemplars/library.md` for the checked list): - Conformer, SpecAugment, ECAPA-TDNN, Tacotron, SUPERB — **Interspeech** papers (2020/2019/2020/2017/2021 respectively). - LibriSpeech and x-vectors — **ICASSP**, not Interspeech. - wav2vec 2.0 — **NeurIPS**; Whisper — **ICML**; Common Voice — **LREC**. - HuBERT — a **journal** (TASLP) paper despite its conference-era fame. When unsure, resolve the DOI before citing the venue. Never trust a BibTeX file scraped from arXiv for venue fields. ## Positioning under compression With one paragraph (or less) of space, use the clause pattern per contrast: ```text Streaming Conformer variants [3,4] reduce latency but hold WER on test-other above 6%; adapter-based domain methods [5] recover accuracy but require target-domain text. We keep the streaming constraint of [3] while removing the text requirement of [5]. ``` Each cited item gets a property and a limitation; your contribution is defined as the complement. Three such sentences outperform a half-page related-work section. ## Self-citation under double-anonymity - Third person, always: "extending the system of [7]" even when [7] is yours. - If your prior system is unmistakably identifiable, cite it anyway — omitting the obvious predecessor is worse — but do not claim ownership. - The anonymity period (from one month pre-deadline to decisions, per the 2025/2026 policy) also constrains *when* your own extended preprint may appear. ## Corpus and tool citation etiquette - Every dataset gets its paper cited (and license stated — see `interspeech-artifact-evaluation`); every toolkit that shaped results (ESPnet, Kaldi, SpeechBrain…) gets its citation. - Metrics with a defining paper (PESQ, STOI, minDCF conventions) are cited on first use if any nonstandard choice is made. ## BibTeX hygiene for a speech bibliography ```bibtex @inproceedings{gulati20_interspeech, title = {Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition}, author = {Gulati, Anmol and others}, booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech 2020}, pages = {5036--5040}, doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2020-3015} } ``` - `booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech }` is the community norm; do not write "INTERSPEECH: Annual Conference of..." variants that fragment your reference list's style. - Keep the DOI field — it is how readers reach the Archive from the PDF. - Purge arXiv `eprint` entries for papers that have archival versions; mixed duplicate entries (same paper cited twice via different keys) are a classic reference-page space leak under the 4+1 format. - The references page is capacity-limited too: with roughly 20–30 entries fitting comfortably, every citation must be load-bearing. Cut courtesy citations before cutting positioning ones. ## Output format ```text [Lane coverage] ISCA / IEEE-sibling / challenge / crossover / corpus — hit or gap [Archive sweep] last-3-editions search done? missing prior art found [Attribution check] venues verified via DOI for all load-bearing citations [Positioning clauses] each contrast has property + limitation + complement [Self-citation] third-person compliance; anonymity-period exposure [Fix list] ``` Archive URLs and the anonymity-period wording were checked 2026-07-08 (`resources/official-source-map.md`); challenge editions roll annually — re-sweep at writing time, not at submission time. --- **Source:** [`brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills`](https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) → `INTERSPEECH-Skills/skills/interspeech-related-work/SKILL.md`