Submission Guidelines

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The Microsoft CMT service is being used to manage the peer-reviewing process for this conference. 

This service has been provided for free by Microsoft, who bear all expenses, 

including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Submission Deadline: Please submit your abstract by Monday 11th May 2026 (5PM BST).

Paper Kit: Please ensure your submission is in PDF format and includes a Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s) and an abstract. The inclusion of illustrations, tables and other figures is encouraged but not required. Please use the UKIS 2026 paper kit Word or LateX templates (based on the UKIS 2025 templates). Abstracts can be up to 1 page total, including tables, figures and references.

Generative AI Statement: All submissions must include a statement indicating the extent of generative AI use. If generative AI was not used, authors must explicitly state this.

Submission Areas: The following submission areas will help UKIS 2026 organisers assign reviewers and track thematic trends across submissions. Authors should select the area that best fits their submission:

1. Speech Science (production, perception, phonetics, prosody, etc)

2. Paralinguistics (emotion, speaker traits, non-verbal signals, etc)

3. Speech Signal Processing (enhancement, coding, etc)

4. Non-Speech Audio Processing (environments, sound event classification, scenes, etc)

5. Speech Technologies (recognition, synthesis, speaker/language identification, privacy, etc)

6. Spoken Language Processing (information retrieval, translation, summarisation, etc)

7. Speech and Language Resources (new datasets, data processing tools, etc)

8. Speech and Spoken Language Applications (dialogue systems, conversational AI, deployments, educational and other real-world settings, etc)

9. Speech & Language for Health (clinical, diagnostic, assistive uses, etc)

10. New & Emerging Topics (interdisciplinary, non-conventional, etc)