Shinji Watanabe
Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; first author of the ESPnet speech processing toolkit
- Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University12
Shinji Watanabe is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, working on automatic speech recognition, speech enhancement, spoken language understanding, and machine learning for speech and language processing. Before CMU, Watanabe was a research scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, a senior principal research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, and an associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University. Watanabe's homepage lists the ESPnet end-to-end speech processing toolkit, the VERSA evaluation toolkit, and Open Whisper-style Speech Models (OWSM) as software; Watanabe is first author of the ESPnet paper and last author of the VERSA paper, and both repositories use the Apache-2.0 license.13456
Work
ESPnet (external site: github.com)Open-source code
First author of ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit (2018); Watanabe's homepage lists ESPnet as software, and the repository is published under the Apache-2.0 license.314
VERSA (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Last author of VERSA: A Versatile Evaluation Toolkit for Speech, Audio, and Music (2024), listed on Watanabe's homepage as Versatile Evaluation of Speech and Audio; the repository is published under the Apache-2.0 license.516
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Associate research professor (2017–2020), Johns Hopkins University1
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