Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the

16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2026) has been extended:

📅 Important Dates (Extended): 📝 Paper Submission Deadline: October 12 → October 22, 2025 🔄 Paper Update Deadline: October 18 → October 28, 2025 ✅ Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025 🎤 Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026

We invite submissions of long papers, short papers, position papers, industry track papers, and

demonstrations on a broad range of topics related to the Theoretical Foundations, Systems and Methods, and

Applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems.

Accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology.

This year’s theme is: 🎯“Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models”

Location: Trento, Italy – the gateway to the Dolomites, right after the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social

--- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi Founder and Director of the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering University of Trento Room D206, via Sommarive 5 38123 Povo di Trento, Italy

Home Page: http://disi.unitn.it/~riccardi/