On 9th September 2026, Tomoya Tanabu (M1), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received Best Student Presentation Award at the 155th (Spring 2026) Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan.
Best Student Presentation Award at the 155th (Spring 2026) Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan
The Best Student Presentation Award was established in 2009 to encourage young researchers who will lead the future development of acoustics. It is presented to student members of the Acoustical Society of Japan who give excellent presentations at its spring or autumn research meetings.
About awarded research
At the 155th (Spring 2026) Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, held at the Surugadai Campus of the College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, from March 17 to 19, 2026, Tomoya Tanabu gave a presentation titled “Voice Conversion Based on Self-Supervised Speech Representations Using Local Linear Transformation with Gaussian Mixture Models,” and received the Best Student Presentation Award (Speech category).
Authors: Tomoya Tanabu, Hiroshi Nishijima, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
Title: Voice Conversion Based on Self-Supervised Speech Representations Using Local Linear Transformation with Gaussian Mixture Models.
Your impression & future plan
I am deeply honored to receive this prestigious award. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Saito and Prof. Minematsu for their continuous guidance, to my co-author Mr. Nishijima, and to all the members of our laboratory. This award will be a great encouragement for me to further pursue my research.
Hiroshi Uemura (D3), Department of Urban Engineering, received Best Paper Award at The 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transportation and the Environment
Kazuki Takahashi (M1), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received DICOMO 2026 Outstanding Presentation Award
