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Shinji Watanabe

Carnegie Mellon UniversityAssociate Professor

Watanabe leads ESPnet, a widely used open-source toolkit that brought end-to-end neural methods for speech recognition, translation, synthesis and separation into one reproducible research platform. His work has helped standardize multilingual speech experiments.

Career & education

Current role
2021-present
Associate Professor
Previously
2001-2011
Research Scientist

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Citation Trend

Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
1 snapshots
Citation snapshot on Nov 1, '2647,568Nov 1, '26
citations47,568As of Nov 1, '26
For today’s citation count and per work, visit Google Scholar.
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