Day 1: July 3, 2026

Time Session
09:00–09:10 Welcome Remarks
09:10–09:40 Findings of the IWSLT 2026 Evaluation Campaign (3):
  • Offline, Low-Resource, Compression
09:40–10:30 Invited Talk: Mohit Bansal
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 Poster Session: All Shared Task Posters
14:00–15:00 Findings of the IWSLT 2026 Evaluation Campaign (5):
  • Simultaneous, Subtitling, Voice Cloning, Instruction Following, Metrics
15:00–15:30 Oral Session I (2):
  • A Practical Evaluation Method for Long-Form Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation. Yulin Xue, Siqi Ouyang and Lei Li
  • Redefining Machine Simultaneous Interpretation: From Incremental Translation to Human-Like Strategies. Qianen Zhang, Zeyu Yang, and Satoshi Nakamura
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:00 Oral Session II (4):
  • Towards Zero-Shot SLU: An Empirical Study of Competing Architectural Paradigms. Beomseok Lee, Marco Gaido, Ioan Calapodescu, Laurent Besacier and Matteo Negri
  • [ACL Main] Measuring User’s Mental Models of Speech Translation in Human-AI Collaboration. HyoJung Han, Nishant Balepur, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Marine Carpuat
  • [ACL Main] LCMA-SRT: Language-Conditional Mixture-of-Experts Adapters for Joint Multilingual Speech Recognition and Translation. Nanjie Li, Xiaoyong Guo, Hao Huang, Xu Haihua, Wei Shi
  • [ACL Demo] WIGVO: Real-Time Bidirectional Speech Translation over Legacy PSTN Calls via Dual-Session Echo Gating. Hyeongseob Kim, Sang-Woo Son, Hyun-woo Cho, Hyeonsang Kim, Jinmo Kim

Day 2: July 4, 2026

Time Session
09:30–10:30 Invited Talk: Marine Carpuat
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 Panel Discussion: Marcello Federico, Jon May, Satoshi Nakamura
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:30 Planning Session for 2027
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
18:00–20:00 ACL Welcome Reception

Important Notes

Oral and poster presentations will be on-site, oral presentations will be also streamed. Oral presentations will be 10-12 minutes, with 3-5 minutes for questions.

Oral sessions: Scientific papers will be presented in four oral sessions. Each paper is allotted a slot of 10-12 minutes, with 3-5 additional minutes for questions. Speakers attending virtually will be able to present through the Underline platform.

Poster sessions: System papers will be presented in two poster sessions arranged by shared tasks. Papers covering multiple tasks can be presented as distinct posters. Physical poster size is A0 portrait. Printing service is available on site: info from ACL 2026.