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.

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WHAT’S NEW

📢 Deadline Extension Announcement

We are pleased to announce an extension of the submission deadlines for the upcoming conference.

Abstract Deadline: 22 June
Paper Deadline: 29 June
Acceptance Notification: 11 September
Camera Ready: 20 September
Conference: 18–20 November

Take advantage of the additional time and submit your contribution to IberSPEECH 2026.

🎤 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Elisabeth André

We are excited to confirm Prof. Elisabeth André as our second keynote speaker!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

In her keynote, entitled “From Speech to Multimodal Interaction: Guardrails for Socially-Interactive AI”, Elisabeth will discuss how speech technologies evolve when moving from transcription to socially-aware multimodal interaction. The talk will explore the design of advanced guardrails for conversational AI systems, addressing uncertainty handling, policy compliance, reliability, and socially responsible interaction in complex real-world scenarios. The presentation will showcase insights from interdisciplinary projects involving social robots, virtual agents for children, healthcare assistants, and LLM-based in-car conversational systems.

About the Speaker
Elisabeth André is Full Professor of Computer Science and Founding Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Augsburg University, Germany. Internationally recognized for her pioneering work in multimodal human-machine interaction and socially intelligent AI, she has made foundational contributions to virtual agents and social robots capable of natural interaction through speech, gestures, and emotions.

We are honored to welcome Prof. Elisabeth André to our keynote program.

🎤 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!!!