@inproceedings{9fb2969cb9ed41d9b49804dac4a4bd10,
title = "Grapheme-Based Cross-Language Forced Alignment: Results with Uralic Languages",
abstract = "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.",
author = "Juho Leinonen and Sami Virpioja and Mikko Kurimo",
year = "2021",
month = may,
day = "1",
language = "English",
series = "Link{\"o}ping Electronic Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "Link{\"o}ping University Electronic Press",
number = "178",
pages = "345--350",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)",
address = "Sweden",
note = "Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa ; Conference date: 31-05-2021 Through 02-06-2021",
}