On 17th December 2025, Kentaro Onda (M2), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received Encouragement Award in Spoken Language Processing and Natural Language Processing Symposium.
Encouragement Award in Spoken Language Processing and Natural Language Processing Symposium
This award is presented to research papers recognized as outstanding interdisciplinary research in the fields of speech and language at a special session of the symposium.
About awarded research
"Advanced Simulation of Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit via Multi-task Learning of L1/L2 Using Differentiable K-means for Accent-robust ASR"
Kentaro Onda, Satoru Fukayama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
Your impression & future plan
I am deeply honored to receive this award. I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Prof. Minematsu, Prof. Saito, and Dr. Fukayama at AIST for their tremendous support. I will continue my research focusing on speech tokenization and foreign-accented speech processing, leveraging both the speech and text modalities.