--- name: interspeech-camera-ready description: Use when an INTERSPEECH paper is accepted and the camera-ready, registration, and presentation chain begins — de-anonymizing for the ISCA Archive, restoring acknowledgments on the references page, meeting the author-registration requirement for proceedings inclusion, DOI metadata, and oral/poster preparation for the conference week. --- # INTERSPEECH Camera-Ready Acceptance at Interspeech starts a tight administrative chain: in the 2026 (Sydney) cycle, notification landed 5 June and camera-ready closed **19 June** — two weeks. The paper then enters the **ISCA Archive** (www.isca-archive.org), the open-access proceedings library of the International Speech Communication Association, where every Interspeech paper since 1987's Eurospeech lineage lives with a `10.21437/Interspeech.-` DOI. Work from the live acceptance email and author pages; the steps below are the recurring shape. ## De-anonymization, done in the right order 1. Restore author names, affiliations, and emails exactly as registered in CMT — the metadata feeds the Archive entry and the DOI record. 2. Reinstate acknowledgments and funding on the references/acknowledgments page — that is the only page that may hold them, and it still may hold nothing else. 3. Convert anonymized self-citations back to first person where it reads naturally. 4. Replace anonymous demo/repository links with the permanent public ones you actually intend to maintain (see `interspeech-artifact-evaluation`). 5. Re-run the paper kit's PDF checker; camera-ready uploads are validated too. ## What may change vs. what may not | Change | Status at camera-ready | |---|---| | Fixes promised in the rebuttal | Expected — reviewers' one leverage point | | Typos, figure quality, reference completeness | Welcome | | Title or author list | Restricted; usually requires chair approval | | New experiments that alter claims | Not sanctioned — the accepted content was reviewed | | Page count | Same 4+1 contract (Long Papers per their own rules) | ## The registration coupling Interspeech ties proceedings inclusion to registration: **at least one author must register (author registration) for the paper to appear in the proceedings and be scheduled**. For 2026, early-bird pricing closed 15 July and standard registration 16 August. On today's calendar (2026-07-08) that makes registration, not the PDF, the live deadline for accepted authors. Budget note: Interspeech has no article-processing charge — the ISCA Archive is open access — so registration and travel are the real costs. ## Metadata hygiene for the Archive - Title/abstract in the portal must match the PDF character-for-character; the Archive page, DOI record, and indexing are generated from the metadata. - Check diacritics and name ordering — speech is a global community and the Archive preserves what you type forever. - Keywords/index terms should use community vocabulary (the terms people search the Archive with), not project branding. ## Presentation planning (the part teams forget) Accepted papers are scheduled as **oral or poster**; at Interspeech the mode is a program-committee packing decision, not a quality verdict. For Sydney week (27 September – 1 October 2026): - Oral: speech slots are short (historically ~15 minutes with questions — confirm the program instructions); rehearse audio playback *through the room's chain*, and always carry a no-audio fallback slide with spectrograms. - Poster: print audio QR codes linking to your (now public) sample page; a speech poster without listenable audio wastes the medium. - Check visa lead times for the host country immediately at acceptance — Australia in 2026, Brazil in 2027. ## Release checklist tied to this milestone ```text [ ] Camera-ready PDF uploaded, checker-clean, metadata matched [ ] Author registration completed before the early-bird cutoff [ ] Demo page and repository made public and linked in the paper [ ] Preprint updated/de-anonymized now that the anonymity period ended (cite the Interspeech version with its 10.21437 DOI once assigned) [ ] Presentation mode confirmed; audio fallback prepared [ ] Travel/visa started; presenting author named ``` ## Recurring camera-ready mistakes at this venue - Restoring authors in the PDF but forgetting the portal metadata (or vice versa) — the Archive publishes the mismatch. - Acknowledgments spilling past the references page's legal scope, or landing on page 4 and pushing content over the limit. - Leaving `anonymous.4open.science`-style review links in the final PDF instead of the permanent repository. - Missing the registration cutoff on the assumption that uploading the PDF was the whole job — the proceedings entry silently depends on a registered author. - Citing your own paper's arXiv version in follow-ups forever because nobody recorded the 10.21437 DOI when it was assigned. ## The two-week sprint, scheduled | Day (from notification) | Task | |---|---| | 0–2 | Read the meta-review; list promised changes; assign one owner | | 3–6 | Apply promised fixes; de-anonymize in the order above | | 7–9 | Fresh-eyes proofread; PDF checker; metadata cross-check | | 10–12 | Upload; verify the portal's stored copy; register the presenting author | | 13–14 | Buffer for the checker rejecting fonts or margins — it happens | ## Output format ```text [Camera-ready status] not started / drafted / uploaded / confirmed [De-anonymization] names / acks / links / self-citations — done or pending [Registration] type, holder, deadline vs today [Archive metadata] match check result [Presentation] oral or poster, rehearsal state, audio fallback [Next hard date] ``` The dates in this skill are the verified 2026 chain (see `resources/official-source-map.md`, checked 2026-07-08); the São Paulo 2027 cycle will replace all of them.