Call for 2027 Shared Tasks

Deadline for task proposals: September 30th, 2026.
Submission via email to: iwslt-organizers@googlegroups.com

Many challenges in speech technology have not yet been addressed; among them, we are really interested in topics related to new application scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilinguality, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, and automatic evaluation metrics. Or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on.

Therefore, we invite proposals for shared tasks. As a task organizer you can promote a particular challenge in speech technology, either newly identified or worthy of continued research. For those proposing new tasks, for inspiration, you can find the tasks run in the previous year. Tasks will be selected in November based on their relevance and readiness for the evaluation campaign, to enable data to be released by the end of the year. To ensure an appropriate number of total tracks, highly related proposals may be encouraged to merge after initial review.

If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form and send it to: iwslt-organizers@googlegroups.com by September 30th, 2026. Decisions about which tasks will run in 2027 will be announced by November 1st, 2026.

For further information on this initiative, please refer to the CFP.