NEWS
🎉 IberSPEECH 2026: 70 papers accepted!
We are delighted to announce that 70 papers have been accepted for presentation at IberSPEECH 2026, following the peer-review process.
The programme will bring together contributions covering a broad range of topics in speech and language technology, including:
🔹 Clinical Speech & Voice Pathology
🔹 Speech Modelling, Synthesis & Evaluation
🔹 Speaker Recognition, Diarization & Anti-Spoofing
🔹 Brain-Computer Interfaces & Multimodal Speech
🔹 Speech, Prosody & Acoustic Analysis
🔹 Speech Technology & Resources for Iberian Languages
🔹 Clinical, Multimodal & Language Modelling
🔹 Speech Recognition, Synthesis & Resources
🔹 Demo, Thesis & Projects
🔹 Albayzin Challenge
📅 Important dates
20 September · Camera-ready submission
30 September · Mandatory early registration for each accepted paper
We warmly invite all authors, researchers, students, and professionals working in speech and language technology to join us in Madrid from 18 to 20 November 2026 for three days of research, discussion, networking, and exchange with the IberSPEECH community.
📍 ETSIT · Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain · 18–20 November 2026
We look forward to welcoming you to IberSPEECH 2026! 🎙️
💎 We are proud to welcome Euskorpora as our Premium Sponsor! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Euskorpora is building the linguistic infrastructure that enables AI to understand and use Basque. By creating high-quality Basque-language corpora and open models, they are helping ensure that Basque has a meaningful place in the digital world—supporting applications such as transcription, translation, voice interfaces, and more.
Their mission brings together language technology, digital sovereignty, and social impact: making Basque a living language of innovation.
Thank you, Euskorpora, for your Premium Sponsorship and for supporting the future of speech and language technologies.
🏅 We’re pleased to welcome BTS as a new gold sponsor!
BTS is a global communications technology company helping operators, hyperscalers, and communication-platform providers grow through scalable connectivity and AI-driven solutions. From voice, messaging, and cloud communications to speech analytics, conversational AI, and digital identity, BTS is advancing how people and businesses connect.
Thank you, BTS, for supporting our community and contributing to innovation in speech, language, and communication technologies.
🏅 We’re delighted to welcome Cires21 as a new gold sponsor!
Based in Madrid, Cires21 is helping shape the future of video with AI-driven streaming solutions—from content recognition and enrichment to real-time captioning and translation. Their work empowers broadcasters, OTT platforms, and digital-media teams to make video more accessible, intelligent, and engaging.
Thank you, Cires21, for supporting our community and the innovation happening at the intersection of AI, media, and communication.
📢 Preliminary Programme Now Available
We are pleased to announce that the preliminary programme for IberSPEECH 2026 is now available on the conference website.
The programme provides an initial overview of the scientific and social activities that will take place during the conference, including keynote lectures, technical sessions, special sessions, demonstrations, project presentations, recent PhD thesis sessions, the ALBAYZIN 2026 Evaluation Challenges, and networking events.
As this is a preliminary version, minor adjustments to the schedule and session allocation may still occur in the coming weeks. Any updates will be reflected on the conference website.
We encourage all participants to explore the programme and start planning their attendance.
👉 The preliminary programme is available from the Programme section of the website.
We look forward to welcoming you to Madrid, 18–20 November 2026.
📢 Deadline Extension for Demo, Project and PhD Thesis Submissions
Following the strong interest received from the speech and language technology community, IberSPEECH 2026 is pleased to announce an extension of the submission deadline for demos, research projects, and recent PhD theses.
This additional submission opportunity responds to the numerous requests from researchers and research groups wishing to showcase demonstrations, ongoing research projects, and recently completed doctoral work at IberSPEECH 2026.
We warmly welcome contributions presenting innovative demos, research projects, collaborative initiatives, and outstanding recent PhD theses covering all areas of speech and language technologies.
Important Date
Demo, Project, and PhD Thesis submission deadline: August 31, 2026
More information: https://iberspeech.tech/2026/
📢 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!!!
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.
GOLD SPONSOR
