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2st CfP: SPEAKABLE 2026

Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/

Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)

We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day SPEAKABLE 2026 Workshop on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges and opportunities in this space.

Workshop Topics of Interest

We encourage submissions on (but not limited to):

- Performance of speech language models in low-resource and underrepresented languages

- Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks for low-resource speech

- Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech technologies

- Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies

- Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual and cross-lingual approaches

- Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for low-resource speech communities

- Parameter-efficient adaptation methods and knowledge distillation for speech models

- Edge-constrained inference and computational efficiency in low-resource settings

Invited Speaker

Dr. Jordi Luque (Lead Research Scientist, Telefónica Research): https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/

Further details will be posted on the workshop website.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026

Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2026

Camera-Ready Papers: March 30, 2026

Workshop Date: May 2026 (11/05/2026)

All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE).

Info for Papers

We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to speech and language modeling for low-resource settings. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet. Submissions should follow LREC formatting guidelines (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements, and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own.

Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work.

All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX/Overleaf style files. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review.

Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission.

SPEAKABLE 2026 will primarily be an in-person event, but online participation will also be possible for participants who cannot travel to the conference.

Workshop Organizers

Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)

Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Learn more and submit: https://speakable-2026.github.io/

For questions, contact: speakable2026@gmail.com

Many thanks,

Marco Matassoni, FBK