Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora

Christian T. DiCanio; Hosung Nam; D. H. Whalen; H. Timothy Bunnell; Jonathan D. Amith; Rey Castillo García

Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora

Christian T. DiCanio, Hosung Nam, D. H. Whalen, H. Timothy Bunnell, Jonathan D. Amith, Rey Castillo García

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Automatic forced alignment between transcriptions has achieved high levels of agreement for languages with large corpora, but the technique holds great promise for work on all languages. Here, we apply two forced alignment programs to data from an endangered Mixtecan language of Mexico. Both yielded a majority of boundaries within 20 ms of hand-labeled ones. Phonemes with fairly steady-state elements (e.g. nasals, fricatives) were more accurately labeled than others. Forced alignment thus may increase efficiency of labeling texts from smaller languages, at least in cases where the phoneme inventories are similar to those of the languages of the training.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
Pages	130-133
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012 - Portland, OR, United States Duration: 2012 Sep 9 → 2012 Sep 13

Publication series

Name	13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
Volume	1

Conference

Conference	13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
Country	United States
City	Portland, OR
Period	12/9/9 → 12/9/13

Keywords

Linguistics
Phonetics
Speech recognition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Communication

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DiCanio, C. T., Nam, H., Whalen, D. H., Bunnell, H. T., Amith, J. D., & García, R. C. (2012). Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora. In 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012 (pp. 130-133). (13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012; Vol. 1).

Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora. / DiCanio, Christian T.; Nam, Hosung; Whalen, D. H.; Bunnell, H. Timothy; Amith, Jonathan D.; García, Rey Castillo.

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012. 2012. p. 130-133 (13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012; Vol. 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

DiCanio, CT, Nam, H, Whalen, DH, Bunnell, HT, Amith, JD & García, RC 2012, Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora. in 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, vol. 1, pp. 130-133, 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, OR, United States, 12/9/9.

DiCanio CT, Nam H, Whalen DH, Bunnell HT, Amith JD, García RC. Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora. In 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012. 2012. p. 130-133. (13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012).

DiCanio, Christian T. ; Nam, Hosung ; Whalen, D. H. ; Bunnell, H. Timothy ; Amith, Jonathan D. ; García, Rey Castillo. / Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012. 2012. pp. 130-133 (13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012).

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