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Grapheme-Based Cross-Language Forced Alignment: Results with Uralic Languages

1 May 2021NoDaLiDa 2021 5archive 2025-07-28

Juho Leinonen, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo

Forced alignment is an effective process to speed up linguistic research. However, most forced aligners are language-dependent, and under-resourced languages rarely have enough resources to train an acoustic model for an aligner. We present a new Finnish grapheme-based forced aligner and demonstrate its performance by aligning multiple Uralic languages and English as an unrelated language. We show that even a simple non-expert created grapheme-to-phoneme mapping can result in useful word alignments.

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