Apple is presenting new work at the annual Interspeech conference, which takes place in person from August 17 to 21, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Interspeech focuses on research surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing.
Below is the schedule of Apple-sponsored workshops and events at Interspeech 2025.
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Schedule
Stop by the Apple booth in the Rotterdam Ahoy Convention Centre (Ahoyweg 10, 3084 BA Rotterdam) during exhibition hours. All times listed in CEST (Rotterdam local time):
- Monday, August 18, 08:30 – 20:30
- Tuesday, August 19, 08:30 – 18:00
- Wednesday, August 20, 08:30 – 18:00
- Thursday, August 21, 08:30 – 17:00
Schedule
Sunday, August 17
Tuesday, August 19
Wednesday, August 20
- CHALLENGE
- The Interspeech 2025 Speech Accessibility Project Challenge
- 08:30 – 10:30, Dock 15
- Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Aadhrik Khuila (Microsoft), Colin Lea, Gautam Varma Mantena, Alicia Martin (Google), Brian Gamido (Meta), Ed Cutrell (Microsoft), Katrin Tomanek (Google), Kyu Jeong Han (Amazon), Leda Sarı (Meta), Venkatesh Ravichandran (Amazon)
- ORAL
- Voice Quality Dimensions as Interpretable Primitives for Speaking Style for Atypical Speech and Affect
- 17:40 – 18:00, Area 13, Oral 7: Pathological Speech Analysis 3
- Jaya Narain, Vasudha Kowtha [Independent Researcher (work done while at Apple)], Colin Lea, Lauren Tooley, Dianna Yee, Vikram Mitra, Zifang Huang [Independent Researcher (work done while at Apple)], Miquel Espi Marques, Jon Huang, Carlos Avendano, Shirley Ren
Thursday, August 21
- POSTER
- Adaptive Knowledge Distillation for Device-Directed Speech Detection
- 13:30 – 15:30, Area 5, Poster 4B: Speech Analysis, Detection and Classification 2
- Hyung Chi, Florian Pesce, Wonil Chang, Oggi Rudovic, Arturo Argueta, Stefan Braun, Vineet Garg, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz
Monday, August 25
- SATELLITE WORKSHOP KEYNOTE SPEAKER
- Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) 2025
- 09:30 – 10:30, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen/Campus Fryslân, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
- Alistair Conkie will be giving a keynote talk on Scaling TTS to Many Languages.
Accepted Papers
AuthorsHyung Gun Chi, Florian Pesce, Wonil Chang, Oggi Rudovic, Arturo Argueta, Stefan Braun, Vineet Garg, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz†**
AuthorsHyung Gun Chi, Zakaria Aldeneh, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Oggi Rudovic, Takuya Higuchi, Li-Wei Chen†, Shinji Watanabe†, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz‡**
AuthorsJingping Nie†‡, Tien Dung Tran, Karan Thakkar§‡, Vasudha Kowtha, Jon Huang, Carlos Avendano, Erdin Azemi, Vikramjit Mitra
AuthorsChristophe Van Gysel, Maggie Wu, Lyan Verwimp, Caglar Tirkaz, Marco Bertola, Zhihong Lei**†, Youssef Oualil
Pitch Accent Detection improves Pretrained Automatic Speech Recognition
David Sasu, Natalie Schluter
AuthorsGriffin Dietz Smith*, Dianna Yee*, Jennifer King Chen, Leah Findlater
AuthorsXiuwen Zheng†, Bornali Phukon†, Jonghwan Na¶¶, Ed Cutrell‡, Kyu Jeong Han§, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson†, Pan-Pan Jiang¶, Aadrhik Khuila‡, Colin Lea, Bob MacDonald¶, Gautam Mantena, Venkatesh Ravichandran§, Leda Sari‡‡, Katrin Tomanek§§, Chang D. Yoo†††, Chris Zwilling†
Speech Technology Meets Early Language Acquisition: How Interdisciplinary Efforts Benefit Both Fields
Maureen de Seyssel, Emmanuel Dupoux (Ecole Normale Supérieure & Meta), Okko Räsänen (University of Tampere)
AuthorsJaya Narain, Vasudha Kowtha†, Colin Lea, Lauren Tooley, Dianna Yee, Vikramjit Mitra, Zifang Huang†, Miquel Espi Marques, Jon Huang, Carlos Avendano, Shirley Ren
Acknowledgements
Sivanand Achanta is an Area Chair for Interspeech.
Vikramjit Mitra is a Workshop Chair for Interspeech.
Maureen de Seyssel is a Tutorial Organizer for Interspeech.
Colin Lea is a Challenge Co-Organizer for the Speech Accessibility Project Challenge.
Parnia Bahar, Jie Chi, Alistair Conkie, Christian Gollan, Jeeweon Jung, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Vikramjit Mitra, Tuomo Raitio, Maureen de Seyssel, Aswin Sivaraman, Barry Theobald, and Lyan Verwimp are Reviewers for Interspeech.