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Staines, David

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“…As regards the median and mean differences, some studies have calculated these solely for vowels (Evanini 2009:56) or have calculated them from log-transformed absolute values (Wilbanks 2015; Gorman et al 2011). Here, we calculate them for all phonemes.…”

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“…Wilbanks (2015) built a forced aligner for Spanish ( FASE ) that attained a 45% agreement rate for the 10-millisecond range and 70% for the 20-millisecond range. The mean difference between FASE and human alignment was 21 ms.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For French, it was 57% and 81%, respectively. For Spanish, Wilbanks (2015) found human-to-human agreement to be 68% and 79% for the 10- and 20-millisecond thresholds, respectively. The mean difference in boundary placement between the two human aligners was 15 ms.…”

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Forced alignment for Nordic languages: Rapidly constructing a high-quality prototype

Young¹,

McGarrah²

2021

Nord J Linguist

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We propose a rapid adaptation of FAVE-Align to the Nordic languages, and we offer our own adaptation to Swedish as a template. This study is motivated by the fact that researchers of lesser-studied languages often neither have sufficient speech material nor sufficient time to train a forced aligner. Faced with a similar problem, we made a limited number of surface changes to FAVE-Align so that it – along with its original hidden Markov models for English – could be used on Stockholm Swedish. We tested the performance of this prototype on the three main sociolects of Stockholm Swedish and found that read-aloud alignments met all of the minimal benchmarks set by the literature. Spontaneous-speech alignments met three of the four minimal benchmarks. We conclude that an adaptation such as ours would especially suit laboratory experiments in Nordic phonetics that rely on elicited speech.

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