37.635, Confs: Crowdsourced Speech and Automatic Alignment: New Frontiers for Laboratory Phonology Workshop @ LabPhon20 (Canada)

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Date: 12-Feb-2026
From: Yaru Wu [yaru.wu at unicaen.fr]
Subject: Crowdsourced Speech and Automatic Alignment: New Frontiers for Laboratory Phonology Workshop @ LabPhon20


Crowdsourced Speech and Automatic Alignment: New Frontiers for
Laboratory Phonology Workshop @ LabPhon20
Short Title: CSAA2026

Date: 25-Jun-2026 - 25-Jun-2026
Location: Montréal, Canada
Contact: Yaru Wu
Contact Email: yaru.wu at unicaen.fr
Meeting URL: https://labphon.org/labphon20/speech

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology

Submission Deadline: 15-Mar-2026

This workshop explores the shift from controlled laboratory recordings
to crowdsourced and automatically aligned speech data. Advances in
speech technology and annotation tools now enable large-scale phonetic
research but raise questions about data reliability, interpretability,
and ethics. Alignment errors and variable recording conditions are
especially common in spontaneous and heterogeneous data, where they
challenge traditional analytical assumptions. Bringing together
perspectives from phonetics, phonology, speech technology, and the
social sciences, the session examines how these new data practices
reshape laboratory phonology and invites discussion on developing
transparent, linguistically informed, and socially responsible
approaches to large-scale speech analysis.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 - Data variability, recording conditions, and alignment challenges
 - Integrating phonetic and phonological knowledge into automatic
methods
 - Cross-dialectal, cross-linguistic, and socio-demographic variation
 - Statistical and computational methods for large, heterogeneous
corpora
 - Ethical issues and interdisciplinary collaboration
Organizing Committee:
 - Martine Adda-Decker, LPP/CNRS, France
 - Ioana Chitoran, Paris Cité University, France
 - Johanna Cronenberg, LPP/CNRS, France
 - Adèle Jatteau, University of Lille, France
 - Lori Lamel, Vocapia Research, France
 - Mélanie Lancien, University of Lorraine, France
 - Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania, USA
 - Anisia Popescu, LISN/CNRS, France
 - Laura Spinu, City University of New York, USA
 - Paola Tubaro, CREST/CNRS, France
 - Ioana Vasilescu, LISN/CNRS, France
 - Yaru Wu, University of Caen Normandy, France
Submission Instructions:
The formatting should adhere to the LabPhon abstract formatting
requirements:
 - Written in English
 - Maximum of one page of text; references, examples, and/or figures
may be included on a second page
 - Submitted as a PDF file
 - Times New Roman font, size 12, single spacing, 1-inch margins
 - Filename format: Paper_title.pdf (e.g.,
Looking_back_and_looking_forward.pdf)
 - Do not include author names or affiliations in the filename or in
the abstract itself
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csaa2026
Important Date:
 - Submission deadline: Sunday March 15, 2026, 11:59PM, Anywhere on
Earth (AoE)
 - Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026.
 - Date/Time of the workshop: 9:00–12:15 (local time), June 25, 2026
 - Location: LabPhon20 conference venue, Montréal, Québec, Canada



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