CFP summary
SPECOM 2026 is the 28th International Conference on Speech and Computer and marks 30 years since the first SPECOM in 1996. The conference brings together researchers, linguists, and engineers working across speech science, speech and language technologies, human-computer interaction, forensics, voice disorders, and paralinguistics. The official website presents SPECOM as a long-running international forum with prior editions held in cities across Europe and Asia, and the 2026 edition continues this tradition in Ohrid, North Macedonia. The event emphasizes both foundational and applied research in speech and language science and positions itself at the intersection of systems, signals, and intelligent technologies. Accepted papers are to be published by Springer Nature in the LNCS/LNAI series, and the site notes that presenting authors may opt in for online presentation, while the main venue is Hotel Granit on Lake Ohrid.
Topics
Speech and language processing; multimodal, interactive and embodied AI; paralinguistics, behavior and affective computing; deployment, trust and healthcare; speech science; speech and language technologies; human-computer interaction; forensics; voice disorders; intelligent technologies. The official site describes SPECOM as a venue for research in speech and computer-related disciplines and highlights four main topical clusters on the homepage: Speech & Language Processing; Multimodal, Interactive & Embodied AI; Paralinguistics, Behavior & Affective Computing; and Deployment, Trust & Healthcare. Papers are submitted electronically via EasyChair and accepted papers are published in Springer Nature’s LNCS/LNAI series.