INTERSPEECH 2023 Code of Ethics for Authors

INTERSPEECH 2023 incorporates the ISCA Code of Ethics for Authors from https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/about-isca?id=279

ISCA is committed to publishing high-quality journals and conference proceedings. To this end, all authors are requested to ensure they adhere to ethical standards. Authors should meet the following standards:

  • The work does not include fabrication, falsification, or any kind of data breach. Authors should retain their code and maintain a log of the data that produced the results in their paper. Authors are also encouraged to make their code and dataset freely available.
  • The work does not include plagiarism or significant self-plagiarism. The work must be original, and any paper which significantly overlaps with previous work is not allowed. Proper reference to previous work is also required. Verbatim copying of work that has been distributed but not refereed, such as technical reports and arXiv articles, is permitted only if the authors are the same. ISCA (and conference organizers or journal editors) may use tools to detect (self-)plagiarism and reject papers without review. The work may not be submitted to any other conference, workshop or journal during the review process.
  • The work does not use figures, photographs, or any other kind of content whose copyright is not owned by or granted to the authors, except for proper quotations allowed by the copyright law. ISCA (and conference organizers or journal editors) may request authors to provide evidence of permission to use the content for their work.
  • The work does not include inappropriate content in terms of human rights. ISCA (and conference organizers or journal editors) may request authors to provide evidence of approval from the host Ethics Committee (Institutional Review Board or equivalent) that the work meets their Institution’s ethical requirements, and/or explicit consent from the human subjects involved in the work.
  • All (co-)authors are individually responsible and accountable for the work being reported and for the contents of the paper, and consent to its submission. This applies regardless of how the paper content was created, whether involving professional proof-reading, automated grammar checking, sophisticated methods including generative AI language models, or any other writing tools. Authors are specifically reminded that, should their use of writing tools lead to breaches of the above points regarding fabrication, falsification, data breach, plagiarism, copyright infringement, or inappropriate content, they are individually liable. Writing tools must not be listed as an author.

Ethical Standards checking is not limited to these 5 points.

If any concerns relating to this code are raised or reported, ISCA (and conference organizers or journal editors) will convene their Ethics Committee to investigate the matter and decide on appropriate action, which may include rejection/removal of the paper (and other papers in the same conference/workshop by the same authors) and suspension of future submissions by the authors.

ISCA also enforces the No-show policy for conference papers. Any paper accepted into the technical program but not presented on-site may be withdrawn from the official proceedings. Please refer to the INTERSPEECH Conference Policy.