Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026

Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor 2026-05 ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) text conference publication speakable-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.0/ Adapting Foundational ASR Models to Efik: An Empirical Study of an Extremely Low-Resource Tonal Language Offiong Bassey Edet author Stephen Orok Duke author Enoima Essien Umoh author Benjamin Okon Nyong author Andrew Asuquo Nkpanam author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication edet-etal-2026-adapting 10.63317/3wmtoxexdady https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.1/ 2026-05 1 7 PAREDA: A Multi-Accent Speech Dataset of Natural Language Processing Research Discussions Sicheng Jin author Dipankar Srirag author Aditya Joshi author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication jin-etal-2026-pareda 10.63317/5iy7wxvt4y5s https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.2/ 2026-05 8 15 Say Again? The Limits of Whisper with Conversation. A Case Study on the KIParla Corpus. Martina Simonotti author Ludovica Pannitto author Caterina Mauri author Adriano Ferraresi author Gabriele Carioli author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication simonotti-etal-2026-say 10.63317/2so5y449gb4w https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.3/ 2026-05 16 30 Not All Polar Questions Are the Same: ASR, Humans, and Russian Maria Onoeva author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication onoeva-2026-polar 10.63317/3qkbn7arv9es https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.4/ 2026-05 31 38 Quantizing Whisper: How Design Choices Affect ASR Performance Arthur Söhler author Julian Irigoyen author Andreas Søeborg Kirkedal author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication sohler-etal-2026-quantizing 10.63317/4f2o9uqpxhn7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.5/ 2026-05 39 46 “OK Aura, Be Fair with Me”: Demographics-Agnostic Training for Bias Mitigation in Wake-up Word Detection Fernando López author Paula Delgado-Santos author Pablo Gómez author David Solans author Jordi Luque author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication lopez-etal-2026-ok 10.63317/3sgj2rai4uv8 https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.6/ 2026-05 47 58 Scalable Expansion of Multilingual Speech LLMs for ASR: A Continual Learning Approach Lorenzo Concina author Marco Matassoni author Alessio Brutti author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication concina-etal-2026-scalable 10.63317/5b86xj9f28dp https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.7/ 2026-05 59 65 Responsible Benchmarking of Fairness for Automatic Speech Recognition Felix E Herron author Ange Richard author François Portet author Alexandre Allauzen author Solange Rossato author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication herron-etal-2026-responsible 10.63317/3jpc2uj4pp3g https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.8/ 2026-05 66 78 Addressing Accent Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition: A Comparative Study of Single and Two-Step Adaptation Mykhailo Danilevskyi author Fernando Perez-Tellez author Jelena Vasic author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication danilevskyi-etal-2026-addressing 10.63317/3zjiz9fsk4fy https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.9/ 2026-05 79 85 Investigating Speaker Pronunciation Variability in Speech Embeddings: Speaker and L1 Effects on French as a Second Language Maxime Fily author Martine Adda-Decker author Guillaume Wisniewski author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication fily-etal-2026-investigating 10.63317/4abhhjss97b8 https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.10/ 2026-05 86 97 What LID Systems Say About Dialectal Variation. The Case of Yiddish, Quechua and Mande Johanna Cordova author Eric Jordan author Valentina Fedchenko author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication cordova-etal-2026-lid 10.63317/5kgca7qm886g https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.11/ 2026-05 98 108 HARNESS: Lightweight Distilled Arabic Speech Foundation Models Vrunda Nileshkumar Sukhadia author Shammur Absar Chowdhury author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication sukhadia-chowdhury-2026-harness 10.63317/2x7bxm8g49ju https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.12/ 2026-05 109 117 When Does OmniASR Fail? A Fine-Grained Human Evaluation on Saudi Arabic Dialects Hend Al-Khalifa author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication al-khalifa-2026-omniasr 10.63317/2wmxhnwmucq4 https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.13/ 2026-05 118 124 SpeechLM for Automatic Speech Recognition in Low-resource Languages Md Abdur Razzaq Riyadh author Eneko Agirre author Eva Navas author Claudia Borg author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication riyadh-etal-2026-speechlm 10.63317/2634e2pv97js https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.14/ 2026-05 125 131 Improving Low-resource ASR Using Bilingual Fine-tuning with Language Identification: A Cross-linguistic Evaluation Reihaneh Amooie author Yun Hao author Wietse de Vries author Jelske Dijkstra author Matt Coler author Martijn Wieling author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication amooie-etal-2026-improving 10.63317/39snpbvopu74 https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.15/ 2026-05 132 138 Leveraging Speech Models for Audio-based Lexical Retrieval in Dictionaries: The Case of the Teochew Language Siman Chen author Ilaine Wang author Maxime Fily author Pierre Magistry author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication chen-etal-2026-leveraging 10.63317/228rtv6b348v https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.16/ 2026-05 139 149 Stage-Aware Cross-Lingual Transfer for Faroese ASR: When and Which Languages Matter Dávid í Lág author Barbara Scalvini author Carlos Daniel Mena author Jón Gu\dhnason author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication lag-etal-2026-stage 10.63317/5hpzgtgaxf43 https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.17/ 2026-05 150 161 Doing More with Less: Determining Optimal Pre-training Model for Irish Automatic Speech Recognition through Multi-step Fine-tuning Caoilfhionn Ní Dheoráin author Ruth Holmes author Nicholas Evans author Thomas Laurent author Anthony Ventresque author Ellen Rushe author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication ni-dheorain-etal-2026-less 10.63317/43cqo4vswrry https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.18/ 2026-05 162 173 Blank-Aware Decoding for Transcript-Free Phoneme Alignment in Low-Resource Languages and Dialects Domenico De Cristofaro author Barbara Plank author Alessandro Vietti author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication de-cristofaro-etal-2026-blank 10.63317/38ff2a2yojww https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.19/ 2026-05 174 182 On the Role of Encoder Depth: Pruning Whisper and LoRA Fine-Tuning in SLAM-ASR Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri author Michael Kampouridis author Ravi Shekhar author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication kolluri-etal-2026-role 10.63317/2pbwm223zmqx https://aclanthology.org/2026.speakable-1.20/ 2026-05 183 193 TaLK-Corpus: A Regionally Diverse Evaluation Set for Sri Lankan Tamil Speech Adsajan Thillainathan author Nishanthini Kanthakumar author Nivethiga Rasan author Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026 Nina Hosseini-Kivanani editor Alessio Brutti editor Marco Matassoni editor Sandipana Dowerah editor Davide Liga editor Christoph Schommer editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication thillainathan-etal-2026-talk 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