Shinji Watanabe
End-to-End Speaker Diarization for an Unknown Number of Speakers with Encoder-Decoder Based Attractors

May 20, 2020
Shota Horiguchi, Yusuke Fujita, Shinji Watanabe, Yawen Xue, Kenji Nagamatsu


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DiscreTalk: Text-to-Speech as a Machine Translation Problem

May 12, 2020
Tomoki Hayashi, Shinji Watanabe

* Submitted to INTERSPEECH 2020. The demo is available on https://kan-bayashi.github.io/DiscreTalk/ 
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CHiME-6 Challenge:Tackling Multispeaker Speech Recognition for Unsegmented Recordings

May 02, 2020
Shinji Watanabe, Michael Mandel, Jon Barker, Emmanuel Vincent, Ashish Arora, Xuankai Chang, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Vimal Manohar, Daniel Povey, Desh Raj, David Snyder, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, Jan Trmal, Bar Ben Yair, Christoph Boeddeker, Zhaoheng Ni, Yusuke Fujita, Shota Horiguchi, Naoyuki Kanda, Takuya Yoshioka, Neville Ryant


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ESPnet-ST: All-in-One Speech Translation Toolkit

Apr 21, 2020
Hirofumi Inaguma, Shun Kiyono, Kevin Duh, Shigeki Karita, Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin, Tomoki Hayashi, Shinji Watanabe

* Accepted at ACL 2020 System Demonstration 
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End-to-End Neural Diarization: Reformulating Speaker Diarization as Simple Multi-label Classification

Feb 24, 2020
Yusuke Fujita, Shinji Watanabe, Shota Horiguchi, Yawen Xue, Kenji Nagamatsu

* Submission to IEEE TASLP. This article draws from our previous conference papers: arxiv:1909.06247 and arxiv:1909.05952 
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End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition Integrated With CTC-Based Voice Activity Detection

Feb 14, 2020
Takenori Yoshimura, Tomoki Hayashi, Kazuya Takeda, Shinji Watanabe

* Submitted to ICASSP 2020 
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End-to-End Multi-speaker Speech Recognition with Transformer

Feb 13, 2020
Xuankai Chang, Wangyou Zhang, Yanmin Qian, Jonathan Le Roux, Shinji Watanabe

* To appear in ICASSP 2020 
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Non-Autoregressive Transformer Automatic Speech Recognition

Nov 10, 2019
Nanxin Chen, Shinji Watanabe, Jesús Villalba, Najim Dehak


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Multilingual End-to-End Speech Translation

Oct 31, 2019
Hirofumi Inaguma, Kevin Duh, Tatsuya Kawahara, Shinji Watanabe

* Accepted to ASRU 2019 
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Towards Online End-to-end Transformer Automatic Speech Recognition

Oct 25, 2019
Emiru Tsunoo, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Toshiyuki Kumakura, Shinji Watanabe

* arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.07204 
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ESPnet-TTS: Unified, Reproducible, and Integratable Open Source End-to-End Text-to-Speech Toolkit

Oct 24, 2019
Tomoki Hayashi, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Katsuki Inoue, Takenori Yoshimura, Shinji Watanabe, Tomoki Toda, Kazuya Takeda, Yu Zhang, Xu Tan

* Submitted to ICASSP2020. Demo HP: https://espnet.github.io/icassp2020-tts/ 
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A practical two-stage training strategy for multi-stream end-to-end speech recognition

Oct 23, 2019
Ruizhi Li, Gregory Sell, Xiaofei Wang, Shinji Watanabe, Hynek Hermansky

* submitted to ICASSP 2019 
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Transformer ASR with Contextual Block Processing

Oct 16, 2019
Emiru Tsunoo, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Toshiyuki Kumakura, Shinji Watanabe

* Accepted for ASRU 2019 
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MIMO-SPEECH: End-to-End Multi-Channel Multi-Speaker Speech Recognition

Oct 16, 2019
Xuankai Chang, Wangyou Zhang, Yanmin Qian, Jonathan Le Roux, Shinji Watanabe

* Accepted at ASRU 2019 
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Espresso: A Fast End-to-end Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit

Oct 15, 2019
Yiming Wang, Tongfei Chen, Hainan Xu, Shuoyang Ding, Hang Lv, Yiwen Shao, Nanyun Peng, Lei Xie, Shinji Watanabe, Sanjeev Khudanpur

* Accepted to ASRU 2019 
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A Comparative Study on Transformer vs RNN in Speech Applications

Sep 28, 2019
Shigeki Karita, Nanxin Chen, Tomoki Hayashi, Takaaki Hori, Hirofumi Inaguma, Ziyan Jiang, Masao Someki, Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Xiaofei Wang, Shinji Watanabe, Takenori Yoshimura, Wangyou Zhang

* IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop 2019 
 * Accepted at ASRU 2019 
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Simultaneous Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization for Monaural Dialogue Recordings with Target-Speaker Acoustic Models

Sep 17, 2019
Naoyuki Kanda, Shota Horiguchi, Yusuke Fujita, Yawen Xue, Kenji Nagamatsu, Shinji Watanabe

* Accepted to ASRU 2019 
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End-to-End Neural Speaker Diarization with Self-attention

Sep 13, 2019
Yusuke Fujita, Naoyuki Kanda, Shota Horiguchi, Yawen Xue, Kenji Nagamatsu, Shinji Watanabe

* Accepted for ASRU 2019 
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End-to-End Neural Speaker Diarization with Permutation-Free Objectives

Sep 12, 2019
Yusuke Fujita, Naoyuki Kanda, Shota Horiguchi, Kenji Nagamatsu, Shinji Watanabe

* Accepted to INTERSPEECH 2019 
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Auxiliary Interference Speaker Loss for Target-Speaker Speech Recognition

Jun 26, 2019
Naoyuki Kanda, Shota Horiguchi, Ryoichi Takashima, Yusuke Fujita, Kenji Nagamatsu, Shinji Watanabe

* Accepted to INTERSPEECH 2019 
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Multi-Stream End-to-End Speech Recognition

Jun 17, 2019
Ruizhi Li, Xiaofei Wang, Sri Harish Mallidi, Shinji Watanabe, Takaaki Hori, Hynek Hermansky

* submitted to IEEE TASLP. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1811.04897, arXiv:1811.04903 
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Self-supervised Sequence-to-sequence ASR using Unpaired Speech and Text

Apr 30, 2019
Murali Karthick Baskar, Shinji Watanabe, Ramon Astudillo, Takaaki Hori, Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký


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An Investigation of End-to-End Multichannel Speech Recognition for Reverberant and Mismatch Conditions

Apr 28, 2019
Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, Xiaofei Wang, Shinji Watanabe, Toru Taniguchi, Dung Tran, Yuya Fujita


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Massively Multilingual Adversarial Speech Recognition

Apr 03, 2019
Oliver Adams, Matthew Wiesner, Shinji Watanabe, David Yarowsky

* Accepted at NAACL-HLT 2019 
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