Developing a cross-platform federated code repository for speech research

The increasing proliferation of code, scripts, and programming language libraries for use in speech science research raises concerns over the maintenance and organization of this disparate code base. These concerns have motivated us to explore the development a federated code repository under the umbrella of the Acoustical Society of America. Our primary goal for this repository is to serve as a central point from which researchers in the speech sciences can access code and data from the community that adheres to a set of established standards for documentation. The code will also be reviewed by other researchers for errors, vulnerabilities, and algorithmic misspecifications. Further, this repository will serve as a starting point for the future development of parallel libraries in open-source languages like R, Python, and Julia. In this talk, we will outline our plans for the repository and identify key open challenges and questions to be answered by contributors regarding repository structure, the code submission and review process, and documentation standards to adopt.