On 11th September 2025, Kentaro Onda (M2), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received The 30th Best Student Presentation Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan.
About awarded research
Exploring the usage of discrete tokens for accent-robust automatic speech recognition only using native speech corpora
Kentaro Onda, Satoru Fukayama, Keisuke Imoto, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
Your impression & future plan
I am deeply honored to receive this award. This research was conducted as part of the AIST KAKUSEI Project (FY2024). I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Prof. Minematsu and Prof. Saito, as well as to Prof. Imoto at Kyoto University and Dr. Fukayama at AIST for their tremendous support. I will continue my research focusing on speech tokenization and the foreign-accented speech processing.
