Children’s speech and language remain an underexplored frontier in speech technology, with urgent challenges in fairness, precision, and interactivity across educational and clinical contexts. This workshop brings together researchers from speech technology, clinical linguistics, and HCI to share methods, datasets, and deployments.
Website: https://asru-ai4csl.github.io/Official-Website/
Topics include (not limited to):
ASR/modeling for children’s speech; detection of speech & language disorders (speech delay, DLD, stuttering, dyslexia); pronunciation/fluency analysis; interactive learning & feedback; data collection/annotation/benchmarks; multimodal & cross-linguistic modeling; privacy, fairness & ethics.
Invited Speakers (confirmed):
Abeer Alwan (UCLA) · Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (UIUC) · Gopala Anumanchipalli (UC Berkeley) · Tiantian Feng (USC) · Corey Miller (Rev) or Carol Espy-Wilson (UMD)
Submission & Review: OpenReview, single-blind.
Short papers: 3 pages + references
Regular papers: up to 6 pages + references
Submission deadline: Oct 1, 2025 (buffer to Oct 6)
Notification: Nov 6, 2025
Non-archival; dual submission allowed. Accepted works presented in person (remote exceptions for visa/travel issues).
Organizing Committee:
Jialu Li (U Arizona), Bashima Islam (WPI), Anna Seo Gyeong Choi (Cornell), Anfeng Xu (USC), Haolong Zheng (UIUC), Xulin Fan (UIUC), Jinjun Xiong (UB), Jiachen Lian (UC Berkeley), Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan (WPI)
Contact: jiachenlian@berkeley.edu
