[Call-for-Paper] Partially Edited Audio: Perspectives from Synthesis and Defense@IEEE SLT 2026

[Lin Zhang]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to “Partially Edited Audio: Perspectives from Synthesis and Defense" at IEEE SLT 2026! This special session aims to promote research on partially editing model. Specifically, we aim to collect papers from but not limited to 

Topics:

• Synthesis:
• Techniques for partially editing content/background/emotion/prosody/object/etc. of audio/speech/music/singing or multimodal audio-visual media.
• Methods to ensure acoustic and perceptual consistency after editing
• Datasets, benchmarks, toolkit for partial audio/speech editing
• Unified models for zero-shot TTS (continuation) and speech editing (infilling)
• Partially audio/speech editing for more complicated scenarios, like long-form and/or multi-speaker conversations, noisy background, multilingual editing, etc.
• Fairness, biases, harms, risks and socio-ethical failures of partial editing.

• Defense:
• Detection, localization, and diarization of partially edited audio 
• Proactive protecting under partial edits, like watermarking
• Adaptation and generalization methods for identifying edits 
• Human vs. machine performance in detecting partially edited audio 
• Explainability, interpretability and transparency techniques for defense against partial edits in speech
• Ethics of data collection, annotation, and use of data for speech editing.
• Fairness, biases for defending against audio/speech/music/singing editing.
• Joint defense against partial editing with other downstream tasks, like ASV, ASR, etc.
• Other novel topics related to audio/speech/music/singing editing

Important Date (AoE Time) - Schedules are same as the regular session at IEEE SLT 2026:

• Paper submissions open: March 4, 2026 (Welcome your submissions!)
• Paper submissions due: June 17, 2026
• Paper revision due: June 24, 2026
• Rebuttal Period: July 29 – August 4, 2026
• Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2026
• Camera-ready Deadline: September 16, 2026
• Workshop Date: someday within December 13-16, 2026

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the last IEEE SLT 2026.

For any questions, please contact the organizers using: parti...@googlegroups.com 
 

Best,

Organizing Committee of Partially Edited Audio: Perspectives from Synthesis and Defense

Lin Zhang@JHU, David Harwath@UT Austin, Xin Wang@NII, You Zhang@UR, Bowen Shi@Meta, Nicholas Evans@EURECOM, Sanjeev Khudanpur@JHU