Shinji Watanabe
shinjiw.bsky.social
Shinji Watanabe
@shinjiw.bsky.social
I'm working at CMU (2021-). I was working at NTT (2001-2011), MERL (2012-2017), and JHU (2017-2020). Speech and Audio Processing is my main research topic.
📢 Introducing VERSA: our new open-source toolkit for speech & audio evaluation!

- 80+ metrics in one unified interface
- Flexible input support
- Distributed evaluation with Slurm
- ESPnet compatible

Check out the details
wavlab.org/activities/2...
github.com/wavlab-speec...
April 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We are excited to announce the launch of ML SUPERB 2.0 (multilingual.superbbenchmark.org) as part of the Interspeech 2024 official challenge! We hope this upgraded version of ML SUPERB advances universal access to speech processing worldwide. Please join it!

#Interspeech2025
December 4, 2024 at 2:45 PM
This is my first official post at Bluesky with great news :)

We got the best paper award at IEEE SLT'24! This work elegantly and straightforwardly solves contextual biasing issues with dynamic vocabulary arxiv.org/abs/2405.13344. Congrats, Yui, Yosuke, Shakeel, and Yifan!
! I'm super happy!
December 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM