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Speech AI For All:
The What, How, and Who of Measurement.
at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona
Thursday, April 16, 2026 (14:15 – 18:00 CEST)
All are welcome to participate.
All are welcome to participate.
Please complete the participation form below by February 12 so we may appropriately prepare for your attendance.
Workshop Snapshot
Workshop Snapshot
Keynote
Keynote
Learn about the current state of the field.
Poster Session
Poster Session
Share your research, get feedback, and network.
Breakout Discussion
Breakout Discussion
Collectively address speech AI measurement problems through structured discussions.
Optimized for "typical" and fluent speech, today's speech AI systems perform poorly for people with speech diversities, sometimes to an unusable or even harmful degree. These harms play out in daily life through household voice assistants and workplace meeting services, in higher stakes scenarios like medical transcription, and in emerging applications of AI in augmentative and alternative communication. Standard metrics aiming to quantify these inequities, however, fail to comprehensively understand the impact of speech AI on diverse user groups, and furthermore do not easily generalize to newer speech language and speech generation models. To address these social inequities and measurement limitations, this workshop brings academics, practitioners, and non-profit workers together in proactive dialogue to improve measurement of speech AI performance and user impact. Through a poster session and breakout group discussions, our workshop will extend current understanding on how to best leverage existing metrics, like Word Error Rate, within the HCI design ecosystem, and also explore new innovations in speech AI measurement.
Key outcomes of this workshop:
Key outcomes of this workshop:
- A research agenda for CHI community to guide and contribute to speech AI development
- Groundwork for new papers on speech AI measurement
- A diversity-centered benchmark suite for external evaluators
The Organizing Committee
The Organizing Committee
Kimi Wenzel
Kimi Wenzel
CMU HCII
Alisha Pradhan
Alisha Pradhan
NJIT
Maria Teleki
Maria Teleki
Texas A&M
Tobias Weinberg
Tobias Weinberg
Cornell University
Robin Netzorg
Robin Netzorg
UC Berkeley
Alyssa Hillary Zisk
Alyssa Hillary Zisk
AssistiveWare
Anna Seo Gyeong Choi
Anna Seo Gyeong Choi
Cornell Tech
Jingjin Li
Jingjin Li
AImpower.org
Raja Kushalnagar
Raja Kushalnagar
Gallaudet University
Colin Lea
Colin Lea
Apple
Abraham Glasser
Abraham Glasser
Gallaudet University
Christian Vogler
Christian Vogler
Gallaudet University
Nan Bernstein Ratner
Nan Bernstein Ratner
UMD
Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown
Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown
Georgetown University
Allison Koenecke
Allison Koenecke
Cornell University
Karen Nakamura
Karen Nakamura
UC Berkeley
Shaomei Wu
Shaomei Wu
AImpower.org
FAQ
FAQ
Is this workshop in-person, online, or hybrid?
Unlike prior years, CHI 2026 is officially in-person only.
It is possible we will stream or record the keynote presentations online (TBD).
Poster presentations and group discussions will not be streamed or recorded.
Is a paper submission required to participate?
No, a paper submission is not required. However, you are encourage to complete the Google form, regardless of a paper submission. You are also welcome to submit other artifacts such as policy proposal and design prototypes.
If I am submitting a paper, what template should I use?
For the initial submission, we strongly encourage submissions to use the ACM single-column template. (Same template as CHI's main conference proceedings.) Papers that deviate from this template will still be considered.
For the workshop itself, you will be invited to turn your paper into a poster. We will send poster details and guidance on printing to invited authors.
Can I resubmit a previously published work or work-in-progress?
Yes. As papers submitted to the workshop are not archived, it is fine to submit a previously published work or work-in-progress. We will evaluate the quality of the submission based on its scientific merits, relevance to the workshop's topics, and potential interest to the workshop participants, and invite a subset of submitted work to be presented during the workshop as posters.
Is there a page limit?
There is no page limit this year.
This is the second annual Speech AI for All workshop. See the 2025 workshop here.
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