A Comparative Study on Transformer vs RNN in Speech Applications. - Shigeki Karita; Xiaofei Wang 007; Shinji Watanabe 001; Takenori Yoshimura; Wangyou Zhang; Nanxin Chen; Tomoki Hayashi; Takaaki Hori; Hirofumi Inaguma; Ziyan Jiang; Masao Someki; Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin; et al. (ASRU, 2019)

Segment-Level Vectorized Beam Search Based on Partially Autoregressive Inference. - Masao Someki; Nicholas Eng; Yosuke Higuchi; Shinji Watanabe 001 (ASRU, 2023)

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 003; Jiatong Shi; Vaibhav Srivastav; Shinji Watanabe 001 (SLT, 2024)

Context-aware Dynamic Pruning for Speech Foundation Models. - Masao Someki; Yifan Peng 003; Siddhant Arora; Markus Müller; Athanasios Mouchtaris; Grant P. Strimel; Jing Liu; Shinji Watanabe 001 (ICLR, 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 (CoRR, 2025)

On-device Streaming Discrete Speech Units. - Kwanghee Choi; Masao Someki; Emma Strubell; Shinji Watanabe 001 (CoRR, 2025)