CfP: IMPACT-SPEECH@EMNLP’26

Dear Colleagues, 


We invite submissions to IMPACT-SPEECH: Identifying, Measuring,
Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs, a
workshop that brings together researchers from speech processing,
natural language processing, machine learning, and social
sciences to discuss emerging challenges related to bias in
speech-enabled large language models and multimodal speech systems. 


🌐 Website: https://impactspeech.github.io/
[https://impactspeech.github.io/] 


The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary,
October 24–29, 2026.




Topics of interest include, but are not limited to :

- Fairness evaluation for speech models, including methods to measure
disparities across accents, genders, speaker identities,
socioeconomic groups, and other factors.

- Bias detection and benchmarking datasets for speech systems, including
the development of datasets designed to identify and
evaluate bias in speech recognition, speech generation, and
speech-enabled LLMs.

- Ethical considerations in speech AI development, including responsible
data collection, annotation practices, transparency,
accountability, and governance of speech technologies.

- Evaluation of Speech LLMs for fairness and inclusivity, including
methods to assess bias in speech understanding, speech
generation, and multimodal speech-language systems.

- Cross-lingual and multilingual fairness, with a focus on challenges
faced by underrepresented languages, dialects, and
low-resource speech communities.

- Bias mitigation strategies for speech systems, including algorithmic
approaches, training strategies, and fairness-aware
adaptation techniques.

- Real-world impacts of biased speech technologies, including
implications for accessibility, employment, digital inclusion, and
human–AI interaction.

- Responsible deployment and governance of speech technologies,
including best practices for monitoring, auditing, and mitigating
bias in real-world applications.


Important Dates

- Direct paper submission deadline: 15 July 2026

- Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: 25 August 2026

- Extended abstract deadline: 25 August 2026

- Notification of acceptance: 3 September 2026

- Workshop date: 29 October 2026


All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth. 


IMPACT-SPEECH welcomes both archival and non-archival papers:

- Archival papers: Research papers presenting original empirical or
theoretical results 

- Non-archival papers: Previously published, work-in-progress, and
extended abstracts


Papers may be submitted as long papers (up to 8 pages plus references),
short papers (up to 4 pages plus references), and extended
abstracts (up to 2 pages plus references). 

Papers should be submitted in the ACL format
[https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files] following the ACL Author
guidelines
[https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines].
The review process will be two-way anonymized;
therefore, all identifying information must be removed from submissions.
 




For questions, please contact: [email protected]
[[email protected]] 




On behalf of the workshop organisers:

Ravi Shekhar, Monorama Swain, Jagabandhu Mishra, Sandipan Dhar,
Haralambos Mouratidis, Matthew Purver

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