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 |
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| 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 Dec 1 |
| 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 |
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| Volume | 1 |
Conference
| Conference | 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Portland, OR |
| Period | 12/9/9 → 12/9/13 |
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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).