Untrained forced alignment of transcriptions and audio for language documentation corpora using WebMAUS

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3940-3947

  Strunk, Jan ^a   Schiel, Florian ^a   Seifart, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forced alignment; Language documentation corpora; Word times

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION;

CORPUS LINGUISTICS; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION CORPORA; MANUAL ALIGNMENT; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; TEACHING MATERIALS; WORD TIMES;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84959899937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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