Masao Someki

According to our database, Masao Someki authored at least 9 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

Bagpiper: Solving Open-Ended Audio Tasks via Rich Captions.

Jinchuan Tian, Haoran Wang, Bo-Hao Su, Chien-Yu Huang, Qingzheng Wang, Jiatong Shi, William Chen, Xun Gong, Siddhant Arora, Chin-Jou Li, Masao Someki, Takashi Maekaku, Keita Goto, Yusuke Shinohara, Jin Sakuma, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Shinji Watanabe

CoRR, February, 2026

2025

SingingSDS: A Singing-Capable Spoken Dialogue System for Conversational Roleplay Applications.

Jionghao Han, Jiatong Shi, Masao Someki, Yuxun Tang, Lan Liu, Yiwen Zhao, Wenhao Feng, Shinji Watanabe

CoRR, November, 2025

Context-Driven Dynamic Pruning for Large Speech Foundation Models.

Masao Someki, Shikhar Bharadwaj, Atharva Anand Joshi, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Jinchuan Tian, Jee-weon Jung, Markus Müller, Nathan Susanj, Jing Liu, Shinji Watanabe

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

Towards Inclusive ASR: Investigating Voice Conversion for Dysarthric Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages.

Chin-Jou Li, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi, Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro, Masao Someki, Rohan Kumar Das, Zhengjun Yue, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Elmar Nöth, David R. Mortensen

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

On-device Streaming Discrete Speech Units.

Kwanghee Choi, Masao Someki, Emma Strubell, Shinji Watanabe

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

Context-aware Dynamic Pruning for Speech Foundation Models.

Masao Someki, Yifan Peng, Siddhant Arora, Markus Müller, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Grant P. Strimel, Jing Liu, Shinji Watanabe

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

2024

ESPnet-EZ: Python-Only ESPnet For Easy Fine-Tuning And Integration.

Masao Someki, Kwanghee Choi, Siddhant Arora, William Chen, Samuele Cornell, Jionghao Han, Yifan Peng, Jiatong Shi, Vaibhav Srivastav, Shinji Watanabe

Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2024

2023

Segment-Level Vectorized Beam Search Based on Partially Autoregressive Inference.

Masao Someki, Nicholas Eng, Yosuke Higuchi, Shinji Watanabe

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2023

2019

A Comparative Study on Transformer vs RNN in Speech Applications.

Shigeki Karita, Xiaofei Wang, Shinji Watanabe, Takenori Yoshimura, Wangyou Zhang, Nanxin Chen, Tomoki Hayashi, Takaaki Hori, Hirofumi Inaguma, Ziyan Jiang, Masao Someki, Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin, Ryuichi Yamamoto

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2019