SANE 2026 - Speech and Audio in the Northeast

October 30, 2026

Aerial view of the East Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) along the Charles River, 2015, Nick Allen

SANE 2026, a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech and audio from the Northeast of the American continent, will be held on Friday October 30, 2026 at MIT, in Cambridge, MA.

It is the 13th edition in the SANE series of workshops, which started in 2012 and is held every year alternately in Boston and New York. Since the first edition, the audience has steadily grownto about 200 participants and 50 posters each year, and SANE has established itself as a vibrant, must-attend event for the speech and audio community across the northeast and beyond.

SANE 2026 will feature invited talks by leading researchers from the Northeast as well as from the wider community. It will also feature a lively poster session, open to both students and researchers.

This year, SANE will take place right after the DCASE workshop, held October 28-29 in Cambridge as well.

Details

Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
Venue: Thomas Tull Concert Hall, MIT
Time: Typically, SANE talks start around 8:30-9am and finish around 5:30-6pm

Speakers

Stay tuned!

Registration

Registration is free but required. We will only be able to accommodate a limited number of participants, so we encourage those interested in attending this event to register as soon as possible by sending an email to with your name and affiliation.

Poster Session (Submission deadline: 10/10)

If you would like to present a poster, please send an email to with a brief abstract describing what you plan to present. Poster submission deadline is October 10.
Note that SANE is not a peer-reviewed workshop, and you can present work that has been or will be submitted elsewhere (if the other venue does not explicitly forbids it). As SANE participants will be a mix of audio signal processing, speech, and machine learning researchers, the poster session will be a great opportunity to foster discussion as well as get feedback and comments from various perspectives on your most recent work.

Directions

The workshop will be hosted in the Thomas Tull Concert Hall at MIT, located in the new Edward & Joyce Linde Music Building. The address is 201 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02142.