Odyssey: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop
Odyssey 2026: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop will be hosted at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, during June 23 – June 26, 2026.
The workshop is an ISCA tutorial and research event organized in cooperation with the ISCA Speaker and Language Characterization Special Interest Group. In this edition, we aim to build upon the previous edition’s focus on diversity, moving beyond traditional speaker and language recognition systems toward broader speaker characterization. This includes not only addressing disparities that affect individuals with diverse accents, linguistic backgrounds, or speech patterns, but also considering emotional states, physical traits, speech-affecting conditions, and more. Beyond, recent advances in characterizing this wide range of speaker attributes raise important privacy and security concerns that must be carefully discussed.
This workshop will bring together a diverse community of researchers, industry experts, policymakers, and practitioners from around the world. Our goal is to provide a platform for deep discussions, knowledge sharing, and the presentation of cutting-edge research and technologies. By fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment, we aim to develop a deeper understanding of the open challenges in speaker characterization, explore new avenues to address them, and discuss the implications of current developments related to privacy and security.
Attendees can anticipate an engaging program that encompasses keynote talks, panel discussions, poster presentations, and technical talks covering a wide spectrum of speaker and language recognition topics. This year, we extend a warm invitation to submissions on interconnected areas like speaker characterization in health applications and privacy and security in speech. The addition of these novel themes will facilitate fruitful interactions between researchers from those fields and the speaker and language recognition community.
Furthermore, the aim of this workshop is to continue offering ample networking opportunities, allowing participants to connect with like-minded professionals, establish new partnerships, and engage in dialogue that has the potential to shape the future of speaker and language recognition systems. This aligns with the successful precedent set by previous workshops in Martigny (1994), Avignon (1998), Crete (2001), Toledo (2004), San Juan (2006), Stellenbosch (2008), Brno (2010), Singapore (2012), Joensuu (2014), Bilbao (2016), Les Sables d’Olonne (2018), Tokyo (2020), Beijing (2022), and Quebec City (2024).
Join us at the 2026 Odyssey workshop on Speaker and Language Recognition and be a part of the collaborative effort to advance the field.
Speaker Odyssey 2026 website: http://www.odyssey2026.org
Topics
- Speaker and language recognition, verification, and identification
- Speaker and language characterization
- Equity and fairness in speaker and language recognition system
- Features for speaker and language recognition
- Speaker and language clustering
- Multispeaker segmentation, detection, and diarization
- Language, dialect, and accent recognition
- Robustness in channels and environment
- System calibration and fusion
- Speaker recognition with speech recognition
- Multimodal speaker recognition
- Speaker recognition in multimedia content
- Machine learning for speaker and language recognition
- Confidence estimation for speaker and language recognition
- Corpora and tools for system development and evaluation
- Low-resource (lightly supervised) speaker and language recognition
- Speaker synthesis and transformation (voice conversion)
- Human and human-assisted recognition of speaker and language
- Spoofing/presentation attacks: analysis and countermeasures
- Robustness to adversarial attacks
- Forensic and investigative speaker recognition
- Systems and applications
- Target Speaker Extraction
- Sound event detection
- Emotion recognition
- Pathological speech characterization
- Hearing and its effect on speaker speech production
- Determining the mental state of a speaker through their speech
Upcoming Events
Odyssey 2026, Lisbon
Past Events
Odyssey 2024, Quebec City (Proceedings)
Odyssey 2022, (Proceedings, Recordings)
Odyssey 2020, Tokyo (Proceedings, Recordings)
Odyssey 2018, Les Sables D'Olonne (Proceedings)
Odyssey 2016, Bilbao (Proceedings, Recordings)
Odyssey 2014, Joensuu (Proceedings, Recordings)
Odyssey 2012, Singapore (Proceedings, Recordings)
Odyssey 2010, Brno (Proceedings, Recordings)
Odyssey 2008, Stellenbosch (Proceedings)
Odyssey 2006, San Juan (Proceedings)
Odyssey 2004, Toledo (Proceedings)
Odyssey 2001, Crete (Proceedings)
Odyssey 1998, Avignon
Odyssey 1994, Martigny