Call for Papers

We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners focused on any facet of utilizing (L)LMs for speech and audio (inlcudes both sounds and music) processing. We particularly encourage submissions that showcase innovative research findings, compelling case studies, and forward-thinking ideas on the future of this field. Potential submission topics include, but are not limited to:

• Novel and innovative applications of (L)LMs in speech and audio processing tasks.
• Novel and innovative applications of multi-modal and cross-modal speech and audio language models.
• Novel architectures and algorithms for training multi-modal (L)LMs with enhanced speech and audio perception and understanding.
• Novel architectures and algorithms for training cross-modal speech and audio language models.
• Novel benchmarks for holistic and comprehensive evaluation for speech and audio language models.
• Novel evaluation techniques for assessing the capabilities of speech and audio language models.
• Novel datasets (both real and synthetic) for training speech and audio language models.
• Techniques and best practices for building or synthesizing datasets for training speech and audio language models.
• Applications of (L)LMs in speech, audio and music generation.
• Any other applications, insights, findings or case studies related to the use of (L)LMs in speech and audio processing tasks.

Important Dates

All papers accepted to the workshop will be published in IEEEXplore as part of the official ICASSP Workshop Proceedings!

• Submission Portal Opens: August 12, 2024
• Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: December 18, 2024
• Workshop Date: April 06-11, 2025 (Exact date and room TBD)

All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (“anywhere on earth”)

Submit Your Paper

Please select SALMA on the drop down list while submission!

We accept submissions that are novel contributions that have yet to be published in a conference with proceedings or a journal. These contributions will appear on IEEEXplore.

Non-IEEEXplore Track

We welcome submissions of works-in-progress, as well as papers that have been previously published or are currently under review at other venues, including conferences with proceedings or journals. These submissions will not be officially published but will be archived on the conference website. Authors will have the opportunity to present their work at the workshop. Submissions to this track is managed via OpenReview.

• Submission Portal Opens: September 23, 2024
• Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: February 14, 2025

Submit Your Paper to the Non-IEEEXplore Track

Submission Information

Main Track (IEEEXplore Track): The paper format is the same as ICASSP (Total 5 pages: 4 pages of main content + 1 page for References), and the review format is single-blind. More details on formatting and the author kit are available on this website.

Submissions to either track should respect the instructions. Submissions that do not respect the instructions will be desk-rejected.

Non-IEEEXplore Track: Papers in this track have no required paper format or page length.