Deadline Extension – International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue (IWSDS) 2026 (Trento, Italy)

[Tatsuya Kawahara]

Dear all,
We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the
16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2026) has been extended:

📅 Important Dates (Extended):
📝 Paper Submission Deadline: October 12 → October 22, 2025
🔄 Paper Update Deadline: October 18 → October 28, 2025
✅ Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025
🎤 Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026

We invite submissions of long papers, short papers, position papers,
industry track papers, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics
related to the Theoretical Foundations, Systems and Methods, and

Applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems.

Accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology.

This year’s theme is:
🎯“Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models”

Location: Trento, Italy – the gateway to the Dolomites, right after the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/
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