@inproceedings{ma-2012-ldc,
title = "{LDC} Forced Aligner",
author = "Ma, Xiaoyi",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Do{\u{g}}an, Mehmet U{\u{g}}ur and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1065_Paper.pdf",
pages = "3405--3408",
abstract = "This paper describes the LDC forced aligner which was designed to align audio and transcripts. Unlike existing forced aligners, LDC forced aligner can align partially transcribed audio files, and also audio files with large chunks of non-speech segments, such as noise, music, silence etc, by inserting optional wildcard phoneme sequences between sentence or paragraph boundaries. Based on the HTK tool kit, LDC forced aligner can align audio and transcript on sentence or word level. This paper also reports its usage on English and Mandarin Chinese data.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T LDC Forced Aligner
%A Ma, Xiaoyi
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Doğan, Mehmet Uğur
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12)
%D 2012
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Istanbul, Turkey
%F ma-2012-ldc
%X This paper describes the LDC forced aligner which was designed to align audio and transcripts. Unlike existing forced aligners, LDC forced aligner can align partially transcribed audio files, and also audio files with large chunks of non-speech segments, such as noise, music, silence etc, by inserting optional wildcard phoneme sequences between sentence or paragraph boundaries. Based on the HTK tool kit, LDC forced aligner can align audio and transcript on sentence or word level. This paper also reports its usage on English and Mandarin Chinese data.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1065_Paper.pdf
%P 3405-3408
Markdown (Informal)
[LDC Forced Aligner](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1065_Paper.pdf) (Ma, LREC 2012)
ACL
- Xiaoyi Ma. 2012. LDC Forced Aligner. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3405–3408, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).