[CogSci] [Interspeech] Special session on speech technology, developmental sciences, and computational modeling

[Marvin Lavechin]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce a special session at Interspeech 2026 (Sept
27-Oct 1, Sydney, Australia) focusing on understanding children’s language
environments and the broader social, emotional, and contextual factors that
shape their development. This session will bring together researchers from
speech science, developmental psychology, linguistics, computational
modeling, and speech technology to explore how children’s language and
social-emotional development unfold in naturalistic settings.

We welcome 4-page submissions (deadline: 25th of February, 2026) on topics
including, but not limited to:

   - Computational models of language learning and speech processing in
   children
   - Acoustic, prosodic, and lexical patterns in child-directed or child
   speech
   - Parent-child interaction dynamics, such as turn-taking and
   conversational synchrony
   - Speech-derived indicators of emotional, social, or environmental
   context
   - Multimodal analyses integrating speech, physiological, and contextual
   signals
   - Methods for handling noisy, spontaneous, and overlapping speech in
   real-world recordings
   - Development or adaptation of self-supervised or foundation models for
   child speech
   - Clinical applications, including assessment, monitoring, and
   intervention in developmental contexts

Building on the success of previous Interspeech special sessions and
tutorials, this session aims to foster collaboration across disciplines and
highlight new advances in speech technology, developmental science, and
computational modeling. We hope to catalyze conversations that push the
field forward and establish new standards for studying children’s speech in
naturalistic environments.

We warmly invite you to submit your work specifically to this special
session and contribute to this interdisciplinary discussion. Further
details about submission deadlines and guidelines can be found on our
website <https://sites.google.com/view/childspace-interspeech-2026/home>
and the submission page
<https://interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/calls/call-for-papers>.

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at Interspeech 2026!

Best regards,
Marvin Lavechin and Kaveri Sheth on behalf of the organizers

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Marvin Lavechin
Simons Postdoctoral Fellow
Computational Psycholinguistics lab, MIT
Web: https://marvinlvn.github.io/
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