AI for Children's Speech and Language

Call For Papers

A call for papers invites researchers to submit their work to ASRU 2025 for presentation or publication, outlining topics, and deadlines.

Submission Highlights

We want to make it easy for you to share your work with the community. Here are a few updates to keep in mind while preparing your materials:

  • •The submission deadline is extended to October 31, 2025.
  • •We welcome submissions that are under review elsewhere or already published—just note the original venue so reviewers understand the context.
  • •Dual submission is allowed where compatible with the policies of other venues.
  • •The program committee will recognize multiple Best Paper Award recipients.
  • •Presenting authors may participate remotely; in-person attendance is welcome but not required.

Workshop Theme

Children's speech and language pose unique challenges for speech technology, with rapid developmental changes, wide individual variation, and significant fairness concerns. Current AI systems trained on adult speech often fail for children, particularly for non-standard speech, dialects, or neurodiverse conditions. Addressing these gaps requires systems that are fair, precise, and interactive:

Fairness

Ensuring robust, inclusive performance across ages, languages, and developmental profiles, while upholding ethical data practices.

Precision

Building reliable tools for transcription and early detection of speech, language, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Interactivity

Designing engaging, real-time feedback systems that support learning and clinical assessment.

This workshop brings together researchers in speech technology, clinical linguistics, and human-computer interaction to advance next-generation systems that are accurate, inclusive, and responsive to children's needs.

Paper Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

ASR and modeling techniques for children's speech
Detection of speech and language disorders (e.g., speech delay, DLD, dyslexia, stuttering)
Pronunciation and fluency analysis across ages
Interactive learning, feedback, and screening systems
Data collection, annotation, and benchmark design
Multimodal and cross-linguistic methods for pediatric language modeling
Privacy, fairness, and ethics in child speech technologies

Submission Information

Submission Types

  • •Short papers: 3 pages + references
  • •Regular papers: up to 6 pages + references

Review Process

  • •Single-blind review
  • •Non-archival
  • •Organizers + PC with meta-reviewers

Ready to submit?

Follow the instructions above, then submit your paper via the link below.

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