@inproceedings{srivastava-etal-2026-cost, title = "The Cost of Sounding Different: Accent Bias in Audio Language Models", author = "Srivastava, Aruna and Ahia, Orevaoghene and Lucy, Li and Christendat, Ashley and Chattopadhyay, Sameep and Samir, Farhan and Afonja, Tejumade and Hofmann, Valentin and Kumar, Sachin and Smith, Noah A. and Tsvetkov, Yulia", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1612/", pages = "36660--36687", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }