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 elderly and people with disabilities.
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.

Speech Technology and Applications

  • Spoken language generation and synthesis
  • Speech and speaker recognition
  • Speaker diarization
  • Speech enhancement
  • Speech processing and acoustic event detection
  • Spoken language understanding
  • Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems
  • Systems for information retrieval and information extraction from speech
  • Systems for speech translation
  • Applications for elderly and people with disabilities
  • Applications for learning and education
  • Emotions recognition and synthesis
  • Language and dialect identification
  • Applications for learning and education
  • Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders
  • Speech technology and applications: other topics

Human Speech Production, Perception and Communication

  • Linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language
  • Phonetics, phonology, and morphology
  • Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and lexicon
  • Paralinguistic and non-linguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)
  • Human speech production, perception, and communication: other topics

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications

 

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

 

Speech, Language, and Multimodality

  • Multimodal Interaction
  • Sign Language
  • Handwriting recognition
  • Audiovisual language processing
  • Speech, Language and Multimodality: other topics

Resource, Standardization, and Evaluation

 

  • Spoken language resources, annotation, and tools
  • Spoken language evaluation and standardization
  • NLP resources, annotation, tools
  • NLP evaluation and standardization
  • Multimodal resources, annotation, and tools
  • Multimodal evaluation and standardization
  • Resources, standardization, and evaluation: other topics

WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

You can contribute to Iberspeech 2026 in several ways:

📄 Regular Papers

Technical papers presenting original research contributions, including submissions associated with the Albayzin Challenge.

  • Interspeech 2026 format: 4 pages + 2 page references

  • Approved contributions will be scheduled in oral or poster sessions and included in the conference proceedings.

🚀 Projects, Demos, Thesis or Entrepreneurship experiences

Present ongoing projects, demos, thesis work, or entrepreneurship initiatives.

  • Same Interspeech 2026 template but flexible contribution format. The suggested length is: 
    • 2 pages for projects, demos and entrepreneurship experiences.
    • 4+2 pages for thesis (same as regular papers).
  • Approved contributions will be scheduled in a special session and included in the conference proceedings.
Make your submission!

🏢 Industrial Innovation & Commercialization

From Research to Sustainable Business: Operationalizing Speech and Language Technologies in the Age of AI

  • You are free to send us any format of contribution: presentation or poster.

  • Approved contributions will be scheduled in a special session.

  • No length restrictions.
  • English mandatory.

🗣️ Round Table

“Speech and Language Technologies in the Age of AI”

  • Moderated discussion
  • Including audience interaction and questions
Join our industry session and round table!

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Acknowledgement

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.