“…Forced alignment is a speech processing technique that fits a given segmentation, in our case, the transcription, to a speech signal. Several aligners exist; for German, one of the most easily accessible and prominent ones, WebMAUS, is provided by the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS), as part of their web services (Kisler, Reichel and Schiel 2017;Draxler, Harrington and Schiel 2017). 22 We have been experimenting successfully with integrating WebMAUS into our workflow.…”