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 workshop held in conjunction with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, focusing on large language models that treat speech and audio as first-class linguistic modalities. It aims to bridge NLP and speech/audio communities by advancing architectural design, training paradigms, evaluation methods, and ethical considerations for audio-language models across speech, music, and mixed audio environments.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
July 28, 2026
AoE
Workshop timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
July 28, 2026 · AoE
Paper fit
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.
- An additional content page is permitted upon acceptance for both long and short papers.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026