IberSPEECH 2026

NOVEMBER 18-20, 2026, MADRID, SPAIN

XIV JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGÍAS DEL HABLA
AND THE X IBERIAN SLTECH

WELCOME to IberSPEECH’2026

IberSPEECH’2026 will be held in Madrid, from 18 to 20 November 2026. The IberSPEECH event –the eigth of its kind using this name– brings together the XIV Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the X Iberian SLTech Workshop events. Both events pursue the aims of being a meeting point to present and discuss the results of the research on speech and language technologies on Iberian languages and promoting industry/university collaboration.

Following with the tradition of previous editions, IberSPEECH’2026 will be a three-day event, planned to promote interaction and discussion. There will be a wide variety of activities: technical papers presentations, keynote lectures, presentation of projects, laboratories activities, recent PhD thesis, entrepreneurship, discussion panels and awards to the best thesis and papers.

WHAT’S NEW

🎤 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: João Magalhães

We are delighted to announce João Magalhães as a confirmed keynote speaker!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

In his talk, entitled “Multimodal Conversational Assistance of Complex Manual Tasks”, he will present TWIZ, a multimodal conversational AI assistant designed to guide users through complex real-world tasks. The keynote will highlight advances in human-like conversational design, multimodal interaction (voice, images, video), and robust zero-shot conversational flows.

About the Speaker
João Magalhães is Full Professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and co-Director of the CMU Portugal partnership. His research focuses on multimodal AI, bridging vision and language for more human-like interaction. He has led numerous national and EU projects and received several distinctions, including 1st prize in the Amazon Alexa Taskbot Challenge 2022.

We look forward to his inspiring keynote!!!

ALBAYZIN 2026 Challenge: Tackling Dialectal Spanish with Speech-COSER

The ALBAYZIN 2026 Speech-COSER Challenge, part of IberSPEECH 2026, focuses on advancing speech technologies using the largest corpus of rural dialectal Spanish.
Participants can compete in ASR, speaker diarization, and spoken term detection, tackling one of the most diverse and challenging Spanish speech datasets.

📢 Call for Papers — IberSPEECH 2026

Join IberSPEECH 2026 in Madrid this November and share your latest advances in speech and language technologies. Paper submissions open until June 2026.

IMPORTANT DATES

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Paper Submission Deadline:	2026, June, 15 (Title, author, abstract)
Paper Update Deadline:	2026, June, 22 (final)
Paper Acceptance Notification:	2026, September, 11
Camera ready:	2026, September, 20