The 17^th Speech in Noise Workshop (SPIN2026) will take place on 12-13 January 2026 in Paris, France, in the buildings of the prestigious École Normale Supérieure.

Watch out, if you are a regular SPIN participant, this time the meeting will be on a Monday and Tuesday rather than the usual Thursday-Friday. Also note that the meeting is planned to be exclusively in person.

Submissions are now closed

Decision emails have been sent on 21 November. If you submitted an abstract and have not yet received a decision, please email us.

Poster numbers will be assigned and shown in the programme.

Programme overview

Keynote Lecture:

“Examination of speech coding in the human auditory nerve using intracranial recordings”

Xavier Dubernard
Institut Otoneurochirurgical de Champagne Ardenne, CHU de Reims, France | Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier, France 

Invited speakers:

• Colin Cherry Award 2025
  Jessica L. Pepper
  Lancaster University, UK
  
• Emma Holmes 
  University College London, UK
  How voice familiarity affects speech-in-speech perception
• Miriam I. Marrufo-Perez 
  University of Salamanca, Spain
  Adaptation to noise: A minireview of mechanisms and individual factors
• Sven Mattys
  University of York, UK
  What does cognitive listening mean? Is it time for a rethink?
• Eline Borch Petersen 
  ORCA Labs, Scientific Institute of WS Audiology, Lynge, Denmark
  Miscommunications in triadic conversations: Effects of hearing loss, hearing aids, and background noise
• Laura Rachman
  University of Groningen / University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
  Voice cue sensitivity and speech perception in speech maskers in children with hearing aids
• Léo Varnet 
  Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs, Département d’études cognitives, École normale supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
  The microscopic impact of noise on phoneme perception and some implications for the nature of phonetic cues
• Astrid van Wieringen 
  Experimental ORL, Dept Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
  Cochlear implantation in children with single sided deafness
• Katharina von Kriegstein 
  Dresden University of Technology, Germany
  How do visual mechanisms help auditory-only speech and speaker recognition?