AI BriefingMultilingual Speech LLM Challenge
Key point
The 2026 MLC-SLM Challenge has opened registration for a multilingual Speech LLM task with a $20,000 prize pool.
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Registration for the 2nd Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Models Challenge 2026 has begun. This competition targets Speech LLMs that handle multilingual conversational speech in real-world environments.
The evaluation scope includes the following.
- speaker diarization
- speech recognition
- acoustic understanding
- semantic understanding
The total prize pool is $20,000, and registration is free. Registered participants will receive a multilingual conversational speech dataset of about 2,100 hours for free.
The data includes 14 languages.
- English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Urdu, Turkish, and others
- Regional accents such as Canadian French, Mexican Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese are also included.
The competition runs in two tracks.
- Task 1: Multilingual conversational speech diarization and recognition
- Task 2: Multilingual conversational speech understanding based on multiple-choice questions
Both academic and industry teams can participate, and individual researchers may also apply.
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