Partially Edited Audio:
Perspectives from Synthesis and Defense

This special session aims to explore the emerging challenges of partially edited audio/speech/music/singing and to foster collaboration between the synthesis and defense communities. We welcome contributions that address, but are NOT limited to, the following 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

Submission Link: Submit Paper (coming soon)

Instruction: We are following the same Author Instructions for IEEE SLT 2026.

Note that for IEEE SLT 2026 submission: the use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to an IEEE publication.

• 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