Long Papers
Up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices; an additional content page is permitted upon acceptance.
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SALMA 2026
SALMA 2026: Speech and Audio Language Models Workshop (2nd Edition) (Direct Submission)
SALMA 2026 is a full-day hybrid workshop focused on large language models that treat speech and audio as first-class linguistic modalities, rather than auxiliary inputs. It aims to bridge NLP and speech/audio communities by advancing architectural design, training paradigms, evaluation methods, and responsible deployment for audio-language models covering speech, music, non-speech sounds, and multimodal environments.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
August 27, 2026
AoE
Workshop timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
August 27, 2026 · AoE
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Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Short Papers
Up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices; an additional content page is permitted upon acceptance.
Research areas in scope
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Topics of Interest
Discrete and continuous audio representationsAudio tokenization and codec-based modelingHierarchical and multilingual speech representationsEncoder-decoder and decoder-only speech/audio language modelsEnd-to-end, streaming, and low-latency inferenceSelf-supervised, weakly supervised, and multimodal pre-trainingScaling laws and synthetic data pipelinesInstruction tuning and preference optimizationSpeech prompting and in-context learningRetrieval-augmented decodingDomain adaptation and personalizationSpoken semantics, pragmatics, and discourseProsody and paralinguisticsConversational grounding, turn-taking, and full-duplex dialogueControllable and expressive speech generationAudio and music generationLow-resource, multilingual, and accessibility-focused applicationsBenchmarks and human-centered or interactive evaluationRobustness, interpretability, and probingPrivacy, consent, and dataset governanceBias, fairness, and inclusivityVoice cloning, impersonation, and misuse risksEfficiency and responsible deployment
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review
- Submissions must adhere to the official ACL style templates and be in standard two-column ACL format as PDF files
- Archival papers must not be under review at another venue during the SALMA review period and must not overlap significantly with previously published work
- Non-archival papers may be submitted to other venues in the future, but may not be submitted simultaneously to another SALMA workshop
- Submissions must be fully self-contained; supplementary materials may be included only in the appendix and are not required to be reviewed
- SALMA 2026 welcomes ARR commitments; papers with existing ARR reviews and meta-reviews may be submitted via the designated OpenReview ARR commitment site
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026