On 14th March 2026, Kentaro Onda (M2) , Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received KAKUSEI Project “Ha(破)” Award.
KAKUSEI Project “Ha(破)” Award
Those who have completed the research period in the “KAKUSEI Project” are all recognized as [KAKUSEI Project “Shu(守)”]. Furthermore, those who are evaluated as having achieved remarkable growth, such as subsequent research progress, results, or external accomplishments, are acknowledged as advancing to the next stage and are successively honored as [KAKUSEI Project “Ha(破)”] and [KAKUSEI Project “Ri(離)”].
About awarded research
Building an Automatic Speech Recognition System Robust to Foreign Accents via Data Augmentation Using Only Native-Speaker Speech Corpora.
Your impression & future plan
I am honored to receive this award. I would like to thank everyone who supported me during the project, especially the project manager, Prof. Keisuke Imoto, and my host researcher, Dr. Satoru Fukayama. My research on foreign-accented speech recognition based on reproducing the phenomenon known as the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit began during the project, and I have continued working to improve the method even after the project ended. I will continue improving the method and aim to advance and promote foreign-accented speech recognition only using native speech data.
Kosuke Ito (M2), Tomohiro Akazawa (D2), both from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received IEEE EDS Japan Chapter Student Award
Shingo Kaneta (Takada) (D3 at the time of research), EEIS, received the 37th Advanced Technology Award and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award
