Nelson Yalta

AI Engineer, ASTEMO, Ltd.

Researcher, Artificial Intelligence for Media, Hitachi, Ltd.

Joined

February 2018

Names

Nelson Yalta

Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@ieee.org (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

AI Engineer

ASTEMO, Ltd. (hitachiastemo.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Artificial Intelligence for Media, Hitachi, Ltd. (hitachi.com)

2020 – Present

PhD student

Waseda University (waseda.jp)

2017 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Shinji Watanabe

2017 – 2020

PhD Advisor

Kazuhiro Nakadai

2016 – 2020

PhD Advisor

Tetsuya Ogata

2015 – 2020

Expertise

Deep Learning

signal processing

machine learning

robotics

sound processing

2017 – Present

Publications

ESPnet3: Infrastructure for Scalable Speech and Audio Research in the Foundation Model Era
Masao Someki, Alexander Polok, Carlos Carvalho, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Da-Hee Yang, Jiatong Shi, Jinchuan Tian, Nelson Yalta, Samuele Cornell, Siddhant Arora, Francisco Teixeira, Wei Wang, William Chen, Alberto Abad Gareta, Chenda Li, Shinji Watanabe, Wangyou Zhang
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Hitachi-JHU DIHARD III System: Competitive End-to-End Neural Diarization and X-Vector Clustering Systems Combined by DOVER-Lap
Shota Horiguchi, Nelson Yalta, Paola García, Yuki Takashima, Yawen Xue, Desh Raj, Zili Huang, Yusuke Fujita, Shinji Watanabe, Sanjeev Khudanpur
- 2021 (modified: 31 Mar 2024)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
ESPnet-ST: All-in-One Speech Translation Toolkit
Hirofumi Inaguma, Shun Kiyono, Kevin Duh, Shigeki Karita, Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin, Tomoki Hayashi, Shinji Watanabe
- 2020 (modified: 07 Nov 2025)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
ESPnet-ST: All-in-One Speech Translation Toolkit
Hirofumi Inaguma, Shun Kiyono, Kevin Duh, Shigeki Karita, Nelson Yalta, Tomoki Hayashi, Shinji Watanabe
- 2020 (modified: 07 Nov 2025)
- ACL (demo) 2020
- Readers: Everyone
HATSUKI : An anime character like robot figure platform with anime-style expressions and imitation learning based action generation
Pin-Chu Yang, Mohammed Al-Sada, Chang-Chieh Chiu, Kevin Kuo, Tito Pradhono Tomo, Kanata Suzuki, Nelson Yalta, Kuo-Hao Shu, Tetsuya Ogata
- Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 31 Mar 2024
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
HATSUKI : An anime character like robot figure platform with anime-style expressions and imitation learning based action generation
Pin-Chu Yang, Mohammed Al-Sada, Chang-Chieh Chiu, Kevin Kuo, Tito Pradhono Tomo, Kanata Suzuki, Nelson Yalta, Kuo-Hao Shu, Tetsuya Ogata
- Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 31 Mar 2024
- RO-MAN 2020
- Readers: Everyone
ESPnet How2 Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2019: Pre-training, Knowledge Distillation, and Going Deeper
Hirofumi Inaguma, Shun Kiyono, Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin, Jun Suzuki, Kevin Duh, Shinji Watanabe
- 2019 (modified: 14 Apr 2022)
- IWSLT 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Improving Transformer-Based End-to-End Speech Recognition with Connectionist Temporal Classification and Language Model Integration
Shigeki Karita, Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin, Shinji Watanabe, Marc Delcroix, Atsunori Ogawa, Tomohiro Nakatani
- 2019 (modified: 06 Jul 2022)
- INTERSPEECH 2019
- Readers: Everyone
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
- 2019 (modified: 14 Apr 2023)
- ASRU 2019
- Readers: Everyone
CNN-based Multichannel End-to-End Speech Recognition for Everyday Home Environments*
Nelson Yalta, Shinji Watanabe, Takaaki Hori, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Tetsuya Ogata
- 2019 (modified: 14 Apr 2023)
- EUSIPCO 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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