37.64, Calls: Workshop at LREC 2026: Speakable - Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (Spain)

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Subject: 37.64, Calls: Workshop at LREC 2026: Speakable - Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (Spain)

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Date: 06-Jan-2026
From: Dr. Sandipana Dowerah [sandipana.dowerah at taltech.ee]
Subject: Workshop at LREC 2026: Speakable - Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis


Full Title: Workshop at LREC 2026: Speakable - Speech Language Models
in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis

Date: 11-May-2026 - 11-May-2026
Location: Mallorca, Spain
Contact Person: Speakable Organisers
Meeting Email: speakable2026 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 16-Feb-2026

We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day SPEAKABLE Workshop on
Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance,
Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026. This
workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry
experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced
languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges
and opportunities in this space.
More information at https://speakable-2026.github.io/
Workshop Overview:
 Speech Language Models have become foundational in speech and spoken
language processing, yet their performance remains uneven across
languages and communities. Models trained at scale often struggle in
low-resource settings due to limited annotated data, domain mismatch,
and sociolinguistic variation, while also raising concerns related to
bias, robustness, and evaluation reliability. These challenges are
particularly pronounced for under-represented languages, where errors
and biases can have disproportionate downstream impact.
The goal of the SPEAKABLE workshop is to bring together researchers
working on speech language technologies for low-resource settings,
with a focus on performance, evaluation, and bias analysis. We welcome
contributions that investigate, develop, or critically assess models,
datasets, benchmarks, and methodologies aimed at improving speech
technologies under data scarcity, enhancing fairness and inclusivity,
and establishing meaningful evaluation practices for under-resourced
languages.
Topics of Interest:
We encourage submissions on (but not limited to):
 - Performance of speech language models in low-resource and
underrepresented languages
 - Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks
 - Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech
technologies
 - Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies
 - Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual
and cross-lingual approaches
 - Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for
low-resource speech communities
We welcome original research, position papers, and ongoing work
relevant to speech and language modeling for low-resource settings.
Submission Guidelines:
Submission format: Papers upto 4 (short papers)  and 8 (long papers)
pages excluding references.
Style: All submissions must follow the LREC 2026 format and use the
official LREC author kit. (available at
https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/ ).
Review Process: Double-blind peer review. Submissions must be fully
anonymized.
Submission system: Papers must be submitted via the following link:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/
Language Resources: In line with LREC policies, authors are encouraged
to describe, document, and share language resources, datasets, models,
evaluation tools, or annotation guidelines used or created in their
work.
Accepted papers: All accepted papers will be included in the LREC 2026
workshop proceedings.
Presentation: Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster
sessions during the workshop.
Important Dates:
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)
Paper Submission Deadline:  16 February 2026
Notification of Acceptance:  12 March 2026
Camera-Ready Papers:  30 March 2026
Workshop Date:  11 May 2026
Contact:
For questions, please contact the workshop organizers at:
speakable2026 at gmail.com
Organizing Committee:
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)



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