[PDF][PDF] Montreal forced aligner: Trainable text-speech alignment using kaldi.

M McAuliffe, M Socolof, S Mihuc, M Wagner… - Interspeech, 2017‏ - isca-archive.org
Abstract We present the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA), a new opensource system for
speech-text alignment. MFA is an update to the Prosodylab-Aligner, and maintains its key …

Phonetics, phonology and social meaning

P Eckert, W Labov - Journal of sociolinguistics, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Linguistic variation has consistently been found to have social meaning in its association
with the status and stance of speakers in the context of interaction. This indexical function of …

Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization: Covariation of stop consonant VOT in American English

E Chodroff, C Wilson - Journal of Phonetics, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Variation across talkers in the acoustic-phonetic realization of speech sounds is a pervasive
property of spoken language. The present study provides evidence that variation across …

Phone-to-audio alignment without text: A semi-supervised approach

J Zhu, C Zhang, D Jurgens - ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The task of phone-to-audio alignment has many applications in speech research. Here we
introduce two Wav2Vec2-based models for both text-dependent and text-independent …

In spoken word recognition, the future predicts the past

L Gwilliams, T Linzen, D Poeppel… - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018‏ - jneurosci.org
Speech is an inherently noisy and ambiguous signal. To fluently derive meaning, a listener
must integrate contextual information to guide interpretations of the sensory input. Although …

Rethinking race and place: The role of persona in sound change reversal

S King - Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
While sociolinguists defined the regional sound changes around the linguistic behavior of
White speakers, recent work has shown that racialized speakers employ local sound …

The fierceness of fronted/s: Linguistic rhematization through visual transformation

J Calder - Language in Society, 2019‏ - cambridge.org
This article explores the roles that language and the body play in the iconization of cross-
modal personae (see Agha 2003, 2004). Focusing on a community of radical drag queens in …

Toward completely automated vowel extraction: Introducing DARLA

S Reddy, JN Stanford - Linguistics Vanguard, 2015‏ - degruyter.com
Abstract Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is reaching further and further into everyday
life with Apple's Siri, Google voice search, automated telephone information systems …

Country ideology and the California vowel shift

RJ Podesva, A D'onofrio, J Van Hofwegen… - … Variation and Change, 2015‏ - cambridge.org
Addressing the dearth of variation research in nonurban, noncoastal regions of California,
this study examines the extent to which speakers in Redding, an inland community just north …

Affect in sociolinguistic style

T Pratt - Language in Society, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
This article argues for a focus on affect in sociolinguistic style. I integrate recent scholarship
on affective practice (Wetherell 2015) and the circulation of affective value (Ahmed 2004b) in …