He has published more than 450 academic papers on automatic speech recognition, spoken language processing, and spoken dialogue systems. He has been conducting several projects including open-source speech recognition software Julius, the automatic transcription system deployed in the Japanese Parliament (Diet), and the autonomous android ERICA.
Dr. Kawahara received the Commendation for Science and Technology by
the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
(MEXT) in 2012.
From 2003 to 2006, he was a member of IEEE SPS Speech Technical
Committee. He was a General Chair of IEEE ASRU 2007 and is a General
Chair of SIGdial 2024. He also served as a Tutorial Chair of
INTERSPEECH 2010, a Local Arrangement Chair of ICASSP 2012, and a
General Chair of APSIPA ASC 2020.
He was an editorial board member of Elsevier Journal of Computer
Speech and Language and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and
Language Processing. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Editor-in-Chief of
APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
Dr. Kawahara is the President of APSIPA, the Secretary General of
ISCA, and a Fellow of IEEE.