The three-day main conference will take place on 13-15 May 2026, and it will be accompanied by three days of workshops and tutorials to be held in the days immediately before (11-12 May 2026) and after (16 May 2026). The hybrid conference will bring together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech […]

SPEAKABLE focuses on three intertwined strands: 1. Efficient Adaptation: Advancing efficient adaptation of Speech LLMs for LR languages through parameter-efficient methods (e.g., adapters, LoRA, prompt/prefix tuning), multilingual transfer and layer selection, knowledge distillation, and streaming or edge-constrained inference. These methods have been shown to significantly reduce the number of trainable parameters while maintaining or improving performance […]