Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs

Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 impact-speech-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.0/ A Probe Shift Is Not a Fairness Fix: The Limits of Representation Steering in Speech Models Nicolas Bourrel author Abderrahmane Issam author Gerasimos Spanakis author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 bourrel-etal-2026-probe https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.1/ 2026-10 1 9 AIP-Speech: Auditing Speech LLM Robustness to Background Interference Aiden Dsouza author Shreyansh Mishra author Yashraj Suneja author Rohan Swain author Samyak Borkar author Arjun Jaishankar author Tanmay Urade author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 dsouza-etal-2026-aip https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.2/ 2026-10 10 19 Can Large Audio-Language Models Ignore Multilingual Distractors? An Evaluation of Their Selective Auditory Attention Capabilities Heejoon Koo author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 koo-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.3/ 2026-10 20 32 Early Warning for Target-Speaker Extraction: Reliability under Distribution and Failure-Definition Shift Shubham Sharma author Manik Gupta author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 sharma-gupta-2026-early https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.4/ 2026-10 33 41 Evaluating Bias in Phoneme-Based Automatic Speech Recognition Systems: An Analysis of IPA Transcription Models Maneesha Rani Saha author Catherine Bao author Neal Patwari author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 saha-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.5/ 2026-10 42 60 Lost in Compression: Calibration Bias and the Accent-WER Gap in Speech LLMs Angad Ripudaman Singh Bajwa author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 bajwa-2026-lost https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.6/ 2026-10 61 66 Pruning for Efficiency, Paying in Fairness: Demographic Disparities in Pruned Speech-LLMs Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri author Michael Kampouridis author Ravi Shekhar author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 kolluri-etal-2026-pruning https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.7/ 2026-10 67 80 Temporal Taxation Compounds Under Post-Training Compression of Whisper Models Srishti Ginjala author Eric Fosler-Lussier author Christopher W Myers author Srinivasan Parthasarathy author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 ginjala-etal-2026-temporal https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.8/ 2026-10 81 94 TurkSV-Bench: Assessing Demographic Bias and Preprocessing Effects in Speaker Verification Ahmet Berkay Kantarcı author Abdulkadir Parlak author Ahmet Karazor author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 kantarci-etal-2026-turksv https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.9/ 2026-10 95 103 What Drives Dialectal Jailbreaks? An Ablation of Surface Form, Cultural Framing, and Strategy Banks Qingyang Xu author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the IMPACT-SPEECH Workshop: Identifying, Measuring, Preventing, and Assessing Consequences of Bias in Speech LLMs Ravi Shekhar editor Monorama Swain editor Jagabandhu Mishra editor Sandipan Dhar editor Haralambos Mouratidis editor Matthew Purver editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-479-8 xu-2026-drives https://aclanthology.org/2026.impactspeech-1.10/ 2026-10 104 118