We are looking for papers on the following topics
- Core Speaker and Language Technologies
Fundamental research areas that has been at the heart of Odyssey- Speaker and Language Recognition: Identification, verification, and characterization of speakers, languages, dialects, and accents.
- Speech Signal Representation: Deep learning-based embeddings, representation learning, and feature extraction for speaker and language tasks.
- Spoken Language Dynamics: Multi-speaker segmentation, detection, and diarization; analysis of overlapping and conversational speech.
- Speech Separation and Source Localization: Methods for isolating individual speech streams from a mixture and locating sound sources in space.
- Adversarial and Countermeasures: Spoofing and presentation attacks, deepfake detection, robustness to adversarial attacks, and voice biometrics security.
- System Design and Evaluation: Confidence estimation, system calibration, fusion techniques, and the development of new corpora and evaluation methodologies.
- Speech for Health, Emotion, and Interaction
Connection of speech processing to applied fields such as healthcare, psychology, and human-computer interaction- Speech as a Biomarker: Pathological speech characterization, analysis of speech for mental state assessment, and acoustic-based diagnostics for health conditions.
- Emotion and Paralinguistic Recognition: Emotion, sentiment, and intent recognition from speech; analysis of non-verbal vocal cues.
- Multimodal and Cross-domain Applications: Integration of speech with other modalities (e.g., text, video, physiological data) for multi-modal emotion analysis, human-robot interaction, and context-aware systems.
- Robustness and Generalization
Practical challenges of deploying speech systems in real-world scenarios- Domain Adaptation and Generalization: Techniques for adapting models to new channels, acoustic environments, and low-resource scenarios.
- Speech Privacy, Anonymization, and Data Protection: Methods for anonymizing speaker identity and other sensitive attributes from speech to ensure privacy.
- Uncertainty and Fairness: Addressing equity and fairness issues, bias detection, and creating robust systems for diverse populations and languages.
- Low-Resource and Unsupervised Learning: Methods for training effective models with limited or lightly supervised data, including self-supervised learning techniques.
- Generative Models and Speech Synthesis
Cutting-edge intersection of speech processing with generative AI.- Speech and Voice Generation: Text-to-speech (TTS), controllable speech synthesis (prosody, emotion, style), and voice cloning.
- Speaker Transformation: Voice conversion, cross-lingual voice transfer, and speaker anonymization techniques for privacy protection.
- Generative AI in the Wild: The ethical implications, detection, and countermeasures for audio deepfakes and manipulated speech.
- Foundational and Interdisciplinary Topics
Foundational research that pushes the boundaries of the field by drawing on insights from computer science, linguistics, neuroscience and other related fields- Large-scale Speech Models: Application of self-supervised, pre-trained, and foundation models for speaker and language tasks.
- Interpretability and Explainable AI (XAI): Understanding and visualizing model decisions in speech processing systems to ensure transparency and trust.
- Speech in the Wild: Forensic and investigative speaker analysis, speech processing in multimedia content, and audio event detection.
- Human-in-the-Loop Systems: Human and human-assisted recognition, Active Learning, and systems that leverage both human expertise and machine intelligence.
Paper submission
We use Microsoft’s Conference Management Toolkit.
Link to submission portal will be provided on 15 of December
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Templates
The templates are available here:
Preparation guidelines
In the following you will find guidelines and templates for preparing a full paper for Odyssey 2026 electronically. We suggest that you read this information carefully before downloading the template packages.
- General Information
- Microsoft Word Template
- LaTeX Template
- General Information
- All manuscripts must be in English.
- The paper must be no longer than eight (8) pages.
- To achieve the best viewing experience for the proceedings, we strongly encourage using Times-Roman font (the LaTeX style file as well as the Word template files use Times-Roman).
This is needed in order to give the Proceedings a uniform look.
- The paper should be in the following format:
- Maximum eight (8) A4-size pages.
- Single-spaced
- Two (2) columns
- Printed in black ink
- No smaller than nine (9) point type font throughout the paper, including figure captions. In nine point type font, capital letters are 2mm high.
- Do NOT include headers and footers. The page numbers, session numbers and conference identification will be post-processed automatically, at the time of printing the Proceedings.
- The first page should have the paper title, author(s), and affiliation(s) centered on the page across both columns. The remainder of the text must be in the two-column format, staying within the indicated image area.
- Any text or other material outside the following margins will not be printed:
- All text and figures must be contained in a 170 mm x 235 mm image area (not including headers and footers given in the template files).
- The left margin has to be 20 mm.
- The spacing between columns has to be 10 mm.
- The top margin has to be 25 mm (except first page 30 mm to title top).
- Center each page within this image area in a two-column format.
- Follow the style of the sample paper that is included with regard to title, authors, affiliations, abstract, heading, and subheadings. (Again note: Page numbers, session numbers, and conference identification will be inserted by the conference organizers at the time of printing the Proceedings).
- Print the paper on white paper and check that the positioning (left and top margins) as well as other layout features are correct.
- Microsoft Word and OpenDocument Templates
If your paper will be written using Microsoft Word please download the template, which allows to produce the proper format. On Odyssey 2026 website, you will find the following files:
- Odyssey_2026_Word_Template.docx
- Odyssey_2026_OpenDocument_Template.odt
- You need to submit the paper as a PDF file.
- LaTeX Template
If your paper will be typeset using LaTeX, please download the template package that produces the proper format “Odyssey2026_Latex_Template”.
Inside the Template, you will find the following files:
- Odyssey2026_LatexTemplate.tex (LaTex template)
- Odyssey2026.cls (style file to be used with the template)
- IEEEtran.bst (bibliography style file)
- Odyssey2026_BibEntries.bib (example bib file used in the template)
- PDF version generated from the template.
Note that you need to submit the paper as a PDF file.