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.

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 accepts anonymized long and short papers following ARR/ACL formatting, with no cross-submissions.

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Important Dates

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

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Program

Invited speakers and the one-day schedule will be updated as details are announced.

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Important Dates

Milestone Date
Paper submission deadline September 14, 2026
ARR commitment deadline September 14, 2026
Notification of acceptance October 1, 2026
Camera-ready papers due October 12, 2026
Workshop date Tuesday, November 10, 2026