| Aug 24, 2026 | Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2026: - MENASpeechBank: A Reference Voice Bank with Persona-Conditioned Multi-Turn Conversations for AudioLLMs
- Multi-turn Conversational AI from Text to Multimodal Interaction: Data, Models, Evaluation, and Open Challenges
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| Aug 19, 2026 | AURA Speech team is hiring Postdocs! We also have openings for interns and research assistants. If you are interested in speech processing, multilingual modeling, conversational AI, or inclusive speech technology, please get in touch. |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Four papers accepted at INTERSPEECH 2026: - WASIL: In-the-Wild Arabic Spoken Interactions with LLMs
- Light-weight Pronunciation Assessment via Discrete Speech Token Surprisal
- Said Aloud, Read Different: Cross-Modal Instability in Multimodal Models
- IQRA 2026: Interspeech Challenge on Automatic Pronunciation Assessment for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)
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| Jul 01, 2026 | We are organizing SemEval MMCultureQA 2027: a shared task on multilingual, culturally grounded spoken visual question answering at ACL 2027, Kyoto, Japan. |
| Jun 06, 2026 | ACL 2026 Paper: Once Correct, Still Wrong: Counterfactual Hallucination in Multilingual Vision-Language Models (Accepted) |
| Jun 06, 2026 | We gave a tutorial, “Multilingual and Multimodal LLMs in the Wild: Building for Low-Resource Languages”, at LREC 2026 with an audience of 80+. |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Join the QCRI Speech Team! We are excited to announce that the QCRI Speech team is growing, and we are hiring. We have open positions for postdoctoral researchers, among other opportunities. If you are passionate about speech technology, multilingual modeling, or conversational AI, we would love to hear from you. |