Spoken Language Understanding

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  1. The Second MLC-SLM Challenge: Multilingual Conversational Speech Diarization, Recognition, and Understanding

    Sep 23, 2026Bingshen Mu, Mingchen Shao, Zhennan Lin +7Spoken Language UnderstandingMultilingual Language Model Evaluation

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Huawei Technologies, China +1

  2. NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task

    Sep 22, 2026Peter Sullivan, Bashar Talafha, Ahmed Ashraf +11ASR EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    The University of British Columbia · King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals · Avignon Université +4

  3. SEAR: Segment-Evidence-Aware Routing for Weak-to-Strong Multilingual Speech MCQ

    Sep 11, 2026Huy Hoang Le, Long-Bao Nguyen, Minh Tri DaoAudio-Language Model EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    CAKE by VPBank, Vietnam

  4. SEA-SpeechBench: A Large-Scale Multitask Benchmark for Speech Understanding Across Southeast Asia

    Sep 9, 2026Jingyi Liao, Wenyu Zhang, Zhuohan Liu +6Audio-Language Model EvaluationASR Evaluation

    Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, A*STAR · Nanyang Technological University · Center for AI Safety +1

  5. Who Are They to Each Other? Multi-Agent Reasoning for Speaker Relationship Inference

    Sep 9, 2026Yaohan Guan, Yen-Ju Lu, Yuzhe Wang +5Spoken Language UnderstandingMulti-Agent Debate

    Center for Language and Speech Processing Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA

  6. Reasoning Beyond Transcription: Audio Language Models on Child Stuttering Speech

    Sep 7, 2026Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant, Zoey LiuAudio-Language Model EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    University of Florida, USA

  7. AVERT: Audio-Verified Adjudication for Spoken Dialogue State Tracking

    Sep 1, 2026Chunggi Lee, Hanspeter PfisterSpoken Language UnderstandingSpoken Dialogue Systems

    Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  8. Perceptually Better, Semantically Worse: Measuring Speech Enhancement Impact on LLM-Based Voice Systems

    Aug 31, 2026Randy Frans Fela, Pejman MowlaeeSpoken Language UnderstandingSpeech Quality Assessment

    GN Group, Ballerup, Denmark

  9. The SLT 2026 SmartGlasses Challenge: Benchmarking Egocentric Multi-Talker Speech Recognition and Understanding with Audio-Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Dehui Gao, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin +14Audio-Language Model EvaluationASR Evaluation

    Huawei · AIShell Inc · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +4

  10. Spoken Function Calling: A New Perspective on Spoken Language Understanding for Large Audio Language Models

    Aug 5, 2026Yuezhang Peng, Yuxin Liu, Changfeng Gao +4Audio-Language Model EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China · Token Foundry, Alibaba Group Hangzhou, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Innovation Institute Shanghai, China

  11. ESCUCHA: A Spanish Speech Benchmark for Heterogeneous Acoustic Conditions

    Jul 20, 2026Fernando López, Ana Ayala, Guillermo Segovia +4Audio-Language Model EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    Telefónica Innovación Digital · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  12. Efficiently Adapting Spoken Language Models for the Singaporean Context

    Jul 11, 2026Ng Jia Sheng JasonSpoken Language UnderstandingMulti-Task Learning

    Language AI R&D, xData Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX), Singapore

  13. LuxSQA: Ask Me in Luxembourgish with TTS-Augmented Spoken Question Answering

    Jul 2, 2026Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Marco Matassoni, Alessio BruttiSpoken Language UnderstandingSynthetic Data Augmentation

    Radio Télévisioun Lëtzebuerg (RTL) · University of Luxembourg · Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

  14. SFL-MTSC: Leveraging Semantic Frame-Level Multi-Task Self-Consistency for Robust Multi-Intent Spoken Language Understanding

    Jun 24, 2026Po-Yen Chen, Berlin ChenSpoken Language UnderstandingSelf-Consistency Decoding

    National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

  15. Selective Capability Unlearning in End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

    Jun 23, 2026Akanksha Singh, Vinod Kumar KurmiSpoken Language UnderstandingMachine Unlearning

    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India

  16. Which Speech Representation Better Matches Text-Native Reasoning? A Study of Speech-Text Alignment on Frame Rate and Representation

    Jun 10, 2026Zhen Ye, Xu Tan, Yiming Li +10Spoken Language UnderstandingAudio Representation Learning

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR · Tencent, China · Independent Researcher +4

  17. AuRA: Internalizing Audio Understanding into LLMs as LoRA

    Jun 9, 2026Bo Cheng, Lei Shi, Zhanyu Ma +5Spoken Language UnderstandingAudio Understanding

    Meituan · Jilin University

  18. LLM can Read Spectrogram: Encoder-free Speech-Language Modeling

    Jun 8, 2026Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Yuxuan Hu +6Spoken Language UnderstandingAudio Understanding

    Microsoft, USA

  19. Afrispeech Semantics: Evaluating Audio Semantic Reasoning in Spoken Language Models Across Domains and Accents

    May 11, 2026Chibuzor Okocha, Christan GrantAudio-Language Model EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    University of Florida

  20. StarDrinks: An English and Korean Test Set for SLU Evaluation in a Drink Ordering Scenario

    Apr 29, 2026Marcely Zanon Boito, Caroline Brun, Inyoung Kim +5Spoken Language UnderstandingConversational Agents

    NAVER LABS Europe

  21. Audio2Tool: Speak, Call, Act -- A Dataset for Benchmarking Speech Tool Use

    Apr 17, 2026Ramit Pahwa, Apoorva Beedu, Parivesh Priye +4Audio-Language Model EvaluationVoice Agent Evaluation

    Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

  22. Multi-Task Instruction Tuning via Data Scheduling for Low-Resource Arabic SpeechLLMs

    Jan 18, 2026Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar ChowdhurySpoken Language UnderstandingSpeech Processing

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

  23. Aslema at NADI 2026: Data Augmentation for Intent Recognition and Slot Filling

    Date pendingTajwaar Shafiq, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam +1Spoken Language UnderstandingSynthetic Data Augmentation

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar