Enno Hermann
Research And Development Engineer at Idiap Research Institute
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolEnno Hermann is a research and development engineer and postdoctoral researcher with 12 years of experience specializing in speech technologies, currently at the Idiap Research Institute in Lausanne. He holds a PhD from EPFL on pathological speech recognition and now focuses on multilingual and affective speech synthesis while maintaining the widely used Coqui TTS toolkit. His background blends academic rigor with practical engineering—early Google internships across TTS, coreference, and SRE and Android contributions (notably to the popular StreetComplete OSM editor) demonstrate his full-stack fluency. Comfortable moving between research code and production-ready systems, he brings deep expertise in ASR/TTS, unsupervised speech representations, and applied machine learning. Colleagues value him for turning complex speech problems into robust, open-source tools that accelerate reproducible research.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Industries de la Langue (Computational Linguistics), Master's Degree, Industries de la Langue (Computational Linguistics) at Université Stendhal Grenoble 3Master’s Degree, Speech & Language Processing, Master’s Degree, Speech & Language Processing at The University of EdinburghBachelor’s Degree, Computational Linguistics and French, Bachelor’s Degree, Computational Linguistics and French at Trinity College DublinLisbon Machine Learning School, Lisbon Machine Learning School at Instituto Superior TécnicoAbitur, Abitur at Alexander-Hegius-Gymnasium, AhausDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Speech Recognition, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Speech Recognition at EPFLExchange student, Exchange student at Tsubasa Sogo High School, Tokyo
German, English, Lithuanian, French
Github Skills (7)
kotlin10
openstreetmap10
mappings10
editors10
editor10
android10
survey9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
streetcomplete/StreetComplete
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Enno primarily contributed to the `streetcomplete/streetcomplete` repository, an Android application. Their work focused on implementing and refining features related to mapping, specifically for adding and editing OpenStreetMap data. This includes adding new quests, such as the "pitch lighting" quest, and modifying existing ones to improve their functionality and user experience. The user also made minor improvements to other parts of the application, such as resurveying collection times and fixing typos.
androidmappingosmsurveyeditor
eginhard/kaldi
Dec 2017 - Nov 2023
This is now the official location of the Kaldi project.
Contributions:21 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 11 months
kaldilocation
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