Call for papers

IberSPEECH’2026 will be held in Madrid (Spain), from 18 to 20 November 2026. The IberSPEECH event –the eighth of its kind using this name– brings together the XIV Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the X Iberian SLTech Workshop events.

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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Scientific Areas and Topics

We welcome contributions across a broad range of speech, language, and communication research, including (but not limited to):

1) Spoken language generation and synthesis.
2) Speech and speaker recognition.
3) Speaker diarization.
4) Speech enhancement.
5) Speech processing and acoustic event detection.
6) Spoken language understanding.
7) Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems.
8) Systems for information retrieval and information extraction from speech.
9) Systems for speech translation.
10) Applications for aged and handicapped persons.
11) Applications for learning and education.
12) Emotions recognition and synthesis.
13) Language and dialect identification.
14) Applications for learning and education: Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders.
15) Speech technology and applications: other topics.

Human speech
production, perception
and, communication

1) Linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language
2) Phonetics, phonology, and morphology
3) Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and lexicon
4) Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)
5) Human speech production, perception, and communication: other topics

 

LANGUAGE technology and applications

1) Natural language generation and understanding
2) Retrieval and categorization of natural language documents
3) Summarization mono and multi-document
4) Extraction and annotation of entities, relations, and properties
5) Creation and processing of ontologies and vocabularies
6) Machine learning for natural language processing
7) Shallow and deep semantic analysis: textual entailment, anaphora resolution, paraphrasing
8) Multi-lingual processing for information retrieval and extraction
9) Natural language processing for information retrieval and extraction
10) Natural language processing (NLP) and applications: other topics

Speech, Language and Multimodality

 

1) Multimodal Interaction
2) Sign Language
3) Handwriting recognition
4) Speech, Language and Multimodality: other topics

 

Resources, standardization, and evaluation

1) Spoken language resources, annotation, and tools
2) Spoken language evaluation and standardization
3) NLP resources, annotation, tools
4) NLP evaluation and standarization
5) Multimodal resources, annotation and tools
6) Multimodal evaluation and standardization
7) Resources, standardization, and evaluation: other topics

Paper Submission

Regular Papers must be written in English and submission will be online. Papers must be submitted in PDF following the Interspeech 2025 format. Papers can have a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references and acknowledgments. There is no minimum length requirement for papers of the special sessions project review and demos. Aligned with Interspeech adoption of “Double-blind review”, IberSPEECH submissions must be blind.

Upon acceptance, at least one author per paper will be required to register (full & early) and present the paper at the conference.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.