Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026
LREC 2026 Workshop
Adapting Foundational ASR Models to Efik: An Empirical Study of an Extremely Low-Resource Tonal Language
Offiong Bassey Edet, Stephen Orok Duke, Enoima Essien Umoh, Benjamin Okon Nyong, Andrew Asuquo Nkpanam
PAREDA: A Multi-Accent Speech Dataset of Natural Language Processing Research Discussions
Sicheng Jin, Dipankar Srirag, Aditya Joshi
Say Again? The Limits of Whisper with Conversation. A Case Study on the KIParla Corpus.
Martina Simonotti, Ludovica Pannitto, Caterina Mauri, Adriano Ferraresi, Gabriele Carioli
Not All Polar Questions Are the Same: ASR, Humans, and Russian
Maria Onoeva
Quantizing Whisper: How Design Choices Affect ASR Performance
Arthur Söhler, Julian Irigoyen, Andreas Søeborg Kirkedal
OK Aura, Be Fair with Me: Demographics-Agnostic Training for Bias Mitigation in Wake-up Word Detection
Fernando López, Paula Delgado-Santos, Pablo Gómez, David Solans, Jordi Luque
Scalable Expansion of Multilingual Speech LLMs for ASR: A Continual Learning Approach
Lorenzo Concina, Marco Matassoni, Alessio Brutti
Responsible Benchmarking of Fairness for Automatic Speech Recognition
Felix E. Herron, Ange Richard, François Portet, Alexandre Allauzen, Solange Rossato
Addressing Accent Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition: A Comparative Study of Single and Two-Step Adaptation
Mykhailo Danilevskyi, Fernando Perez-Tellez, Jelena Vasic
Investigating Speaker Pronunciation Variability in Speech Embeddings: Speaker and L1 Effects on French as a Second Language
Maxime Fily, Martine Adda-Decker, Guillaume Wisniewski
What LID Systems Say About Dialectal Variation. The Case of Yiddish, Quechua and Mande
Johanna Cordova, Eric Jordan, Valentina Fedchenko
HARNESS: Lightweight Distilled Arabic Speech Foundation Models
Vrunda Nileshkumar Sukhadia, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
When Does OmniASR Fail? A Fine-Grained Human Evaluation on Saudi Arabic Dialects
Hend Al-Khalifa
SpeechLM for Automatic Speech Recognition in Low-resource Languages
Md Abdur Razzaq Riyadh, Eneko Agirre, Eva Navas, Claudia Borg
Improving Low-resource ASR Using Bilingual Fine-tuning with Language Identification: A Cross-linguistic Evaluation
Reihaneh Amooie, Yun Hao, Wietse de Vries, Jelske Dijkstra, Matt Coler, Martijn Wieling
Leveraging Speech Models for Audio-based Lexical Retrieval in Dictionaries: The Case of the Teochew Language
Siman Chen, Ilaine Wang, Maxime Fily, Pierre Magistry
Stage-Aware Cross-Lingual Transfer for Faroese ASR: When and Which Languages Matter
Dávid í Lág, Barbara Scalvini, Carlos Daniel Mena, Jón Guðnason
Doing More with Less: Determining Optimal Pre-training Model for Irish Automatic Speech Recognition through Multi-step Fine-tuning
Caoilfhionn Ní Dheoráin, Ruth Holmes, Nicholas Evans, Thomas Laurent, Anthony Ventresque, Ellen Rushe
Blank-Aware Decoding for Transcript-Free Phoneme Alignment in Low-Resource Languages and Dialects
Domenico De Cristofaro, Barbara Plank, Alessandro Vietti
On the Role of Encoder Depth: Pruning Whisper and LoRA Fine-Tuning in SLAM-ASR
Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri, Michael Kampouridis, Ravi Shekhar
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