INTERSPEECH 2026

INTERSPEECH 2026 is the annual flagship conference of the International Speech Communication Association, held 28 September to 1 October 2026 at ICC Sydney in Sydney, Australia. It is the largest peer-reviewed venue for speech and spoken language processing, covering automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker and language recognition, spoken language understanding, conversational AI, self-supervised and multimodal speech models, and speech signal processing. The programme combines keynote talks, oral and poster paper sessions, tutorials, special sessions, open challenges, Show and Tell demonstrations, an industry exhibition and satellite workshops held around Sydney, plus mentoring sessions pairing PhD students with senior researchers. The 2026 review cycle ran a full call for papers with submissions due 25 February 2026, a rebuttal period from 24 April to 1 May, and acceptance notifications on 5 June 2026.

Date

September 28 – October 1, 2026

Location

ICC Sydney, Australia

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)

Added

Jun 24, 2026

Updated

Aug 14, 2026

• ✓Speech and ML research scientists
• ✓Applied machine learning engineers
• ✓Conversational AI product leads
• ✓Voice platform architects
• ✓Academic researchers and faculty
• ✓PhD students
• ✓R&D directors

Any organisation shipping voice — contact centre automation, in-car assistants, clinical documentation, real-time translation — is buying models whose next generation is being presented here first, typically eighteen months before it reaches a vendor roadmap. A research or platform lead leaves knowing which speech architectures are converging, where recognition accuracy still fails on accented and low-resource speech that your users actually have, and which university groups and industry labs are worth a hiring or partnership conversation. The exhibition and Show and Tell floor make that concrete rather than bibliographic.

• ✓Oral and poster paper sessions across the full speech technology programme
• ✓Keynote talks from invited speakers
• ✓Tutorial programme
• ✓Special sessions and open challenges
• ✓Show and Tell system demonstrations
• ✓Satellite workshops held around Sydney
• ✓Industry exhibition
• ✓Student mentoring and poster sessions with senior researchers

• ★ISCA's flagship annual conference and the largest peer-reviewed venue in the world for speech and spoken language technology, so the work presented is reviewed rather than pitched
• ★Publishes a full call-for-papers timeline including a rebuttal period, which is the review rigour commercial AI events do not have
• ★Brings the series to ICC Sydney, putting the Asia-Pacific speech research community and its industry labs in reach without a transpacific trip
• ★Programme runs open challenges and Show and Tell demonstrations alongside papers, so systems are shown working rather than described
• ★Satellite workshops around Sydney extend the technical programme past the main conference days

Paid registration with separate author, student, academic and industry categories; students register at a reduced rate and ISCA members receive member pricing. Fee amounts are published on the official Interspeech 2026 registration page.

When is INTERSPEECH 2026?

INTERSPEECH 2026 takes place September 28 – October 1, 2026 in Sydney, Australia.

Where is INTERSPEECH 2026 held?

INTERSPEECH 2026 is held in Sydney, Australia. The event format is in-person.

How much does INTERSPEECH 2026 cost?

INTERSPEECH 2026 is paid. Paid registration with separate author, student, academic and industry categories; students register at a reduced rate and ISCA members receive member pricing. Fee amounts are published on the official Interspeech 2026 registration page.

Who should attend INTERSPEECH 2026?

INTERSPEECH 2026 is aimed at Speech and ML research scientists, Applied machine learning engineers, Conversational AI product leads, Voice platform architects, Academic researchers and faculty, PhD students, R&D directors.

What topics does INTERSPEECH 2026 cover?

INTERSPEECH 2026 covers Automatic speech recognition, Speech synthesis, Speaker and language recognition, Spoken language understanding, Conversational AI, Self-supervised speech models, Multimodal and spoken dialogue systems, Speech signal processing, Machine learning for speech and audio.

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1. 1.interspeech2026.org — en AUvendor
2. 2.conferenceinc.net — interspeech 2026
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