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Robocon I participated in the ABU Robocon 2020, an international competition, and won the 1st place. This robot was featured in IEEE Spectrum.
Robocon I participated in the ABU Robocon 2020, an international competition, and won the 1st place. This robot was featured in IEEE Spectrum.
Journal Papers Kentaro Seki, Yuki Saito, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Takaaki Saeki and Hiroshi Saruwatari, “Efficient and Robust Data Sampling Strategy for Large-Scale In-the-Wild Text-to-Speech Training,” IEEE Access, Vol. 14, pp. 132282–132297, Aug. 2026. [OPEN ACCESS] Kentaro Seki, Yuki Saito, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Takaaki Saeki and Hiroshi Saruwatari, “Toward Data-Efficient Speech Synthesis: Active Learning-Based Corpus Construction for Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Synthesis,” IEEE Access, Vol. 13, pp. 217900–217912, Dec. 2025. [OPEN ACCESS] Kentaro Seki, Nobutaka Ito, Kazuki Yamauchi, Yuki Okamoto, Kouei Yamaoka, Yuki Saito, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Hiroshi Saruwatari, “Language-queried target speech extraction using para-linguistic and non-linguistic prompts,” Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol....
Kentaro Seki seki-kentaro922[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp Research area: Speech synthesis, Machine learning. Affiliation Saruwatari & Saito Lab, Department of Information Physics & Computing, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo Educational History Apr. 2024 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Information Physics and Computing, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan Apr. 2022 - Mar....