Re: Help with alignment tool for speech database

[Mark Huckvale <m.huckvale@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Xinhui

There is a tool ("analign") for aligning British English phonetic 
transcription with audio within the SFS toolkit:
	http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/
But it is a little tricky to set up.  The HowTo at
	http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/howto/transcribe.htm
may help.

Inside it just uses code borrowed from the Hidden Markov Model Toolkit 
HTK (http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/). So you might instead choose this to 
build a version specific to your requirements.

Regards

Mark Huckvale

xinhui zhou wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> I am interested in some automatic or semiautomatic alignment tool for
> a speech database, X-ray Microbeam Production database (XRMB-SPD).
>
> We have the speech signal and also the transcripts, and would like to
> put phonetic labels aligned with the speech signal.   It will be good
> if we can use automatic tool first and then correct the alignment
> manually.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Xinhui  Zhou

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Mark Huckvale, Director MSc Speech and Hearing Science
Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk