How to pronounce vaswani
person community-consensus
vaswani is most commonly pronounced "vuh swah nee" (/vəˈswɑːni/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.
Ashish Vaswani, lead author of "Attention Is All You Need".
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