AACL-IJCNLP 2026 Workshop W8

TrustAudio: Workshop on Secure, Safe, and Privacy-Preserving Speech and Audio AI

Co-located with AACL-IJCNLP 2026 on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 in Zhuhai, China, this workshop focuses on understanding, evaluating, and mitigating security, safety, and privacy risks in speech and audio models across their full lifecycle.

Call for Papers Program

Overview

Speech and audio foundation models are increasingly deployed in voice assistants, transcription systems, accessibility tools, and multimodal agents. Both adversarially crafted and naturally occurring audio inputs can induce unintended, unsafe, or harmful behaviors, creating security, safety, and privacy risks.

TrustAudio brings together researchers and practitioners from speech processing, NLP, machine learning, privacy, and security to advance trustworthy and reliable speech and audio AI.

Tagline

Next-Chapter AI: Advancing Safety, Security and Privacy for Audio and Speech Models.

Workshop Focus

TrustAudio centers on security, safety, and privacy risks across the speech and audio AI lifecycle.

Topics of Interest

  • Adversarial Audio
  • Real-World Attacks
  • Robust Evaluation
  • Deepfake Misuse
  • Audio Hallucinations
  • Backdoors
  • Privacy Preservation
  • Model Provenance
  • System Safeguards
  • Multilingual Safety

Call for Papers

TrustAudio welcomes original research in the archival track and already accepted papers in the non-archival track for workshop presentation.

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Important Dates

Submission, notification, camera-ready, and workshop dates are listed with deadlines in AoE time.

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Speakers

Invited speakers: Hung-yi Lee, Shinji Watanabe, and Junichi Yamagishi. Talk titles, abstracts, and biographies are available.

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Important Dates

All deadlines are in AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time.

Milestone Date
Archival paper submission deadline September 28, 2026
ARR commitment deadline September 15, 2026
Non-archival submission deadline October 4, 2026
Notification of acceptance October 6, 2026
Camera-ready papers due October 11, 2026
Early-bird registration deadline for workshop papers October 7, 2026
Workshop date Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Code of Conduct

TrustAudio follows the ACL Anti-Harassment Policy and is committed to a welcoming, respectful environment for all participants. Harassment and hostile behavior are not tolerated at the workshop or in related online discussions.

To report harassment or raise a concern, contact any current member of the ACL Professional Conduct Committee. Its page lists members, their contact details, and the languages they speak.