Odyssey 2026 — The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey)

Odyssey is the biennial workshop of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speaker and Language Characterization, the main venue for speaker and language recognition research. It invites original contributions on speaker recognition and verification, language and dialect identification, speaker diarization, anti-spoofing and deepfake detection, speaker characterization for health and emotion, speech privacy and security. Submissions may take the form of full research papers, extended abstracts and poster presentations reporting theoretical, computational and experimental work, as well as industrial case studies and applications. The meeting brings together researchers, engineers, industry practitioners and students to exchange recent results and discuss emerging directions in the field. Accepted papers are published in the conference proceedings (International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)).