The Award for the most influential paper published in Interspeech was first awarded last year. The winners are selected from all papers (not limited to student papers) within a five-year window, based on long-term impact and paper category. This year, the award selection committee carefully selected from 5,486 papers published in Interspeech from 2021 to 2025.

The following two papers were chosen and the award was presented in the Closing Ceremony of Interspeech:

• "AST: Audio Spectrogram Transformer"
  Yuan Gong, Yu-An Chung, James Glass, Interspeech 2021, pp. 571-575.

• "UTMOS: UTokyo-SaruLab System for VoiceMOS Challenge 2022"
  Takaaki Saeki, Detai Xin, Wataru Nakata, Tomoki Koriyama, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Interspeech 2022, pp. 4521-4525.