Key Dates

Challenge Timeline

• December 1, 2025 — Challenge announcement and registration opens

• December 15, 2025 — Registration closes; institutional review board (IRB) approval and data-use agreement processes begin

• December 22, 2025 — Release of labeled training dataset, pending fully executed data transfer and use agreement

• February 2, 2026 — Release of unlabeled test dataset for model evaluation by teams

• February 12, 2026 — Final submission of the test dataset classification results, technical report, and code

• February 18 20, 2026 — Announcement of the leaderboard, including test dataset results for each team, and challenge winners

• February 25, 2026 — Interspeech paper submission deadline 

Unless otherwise noted, all deadlines are 23:59 (11:59 PM) Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Dates are subject to adjustment based on the Interspeech 2026 Challenge Committee and ISCA Technical Committee scheduling. Any updates will be communicated to all registered teams.